{"id":207076,"date":"2026-05-31T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207076\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T21:26:08","slug":"this-former-lehigh-valley-cop-is-among-the-newest-islanders-to-join-love-island-usa-villa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/207076\/","title":{"rendered":"This former Lehigh Valley cop is among the newest islanders to join &#8216;Love Island USA&#8217; villa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">A Lehigh Valley police officer has left the force to join the villa. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Sean Reifel, of Easton, who was employed with the Bethlehem Police Department until May 20, is among the latest bombshells cast for the upcoming season of Love Island USA, <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/05\/30\/bethlehem-police-officer-sean-reifel-love-island-usa-mayor-disappointed\/?campaign=mcdontmiss&amp;utm_email=142D25603592E40F25C34543C4&amp;active=no&amp;lctg=142D25603592E40F25C34543C4&amp;utm_source=listrak&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mcall.com%2f2026%2f05%2f30%2fbethlehem-police-officer-sean-reifel-love-island-usa-mayor-disappointed%2f&amp;utm_campaign=trib-morning_call-breaking_news-nl&amp;utm_content=alert\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/05\/30\/bethlehem-police-officer-sean-reifel-love-island-usa-mayor-disappointed\/?campaign=mcdontmiss&amp;utm_email=142D25603592E40F25C34543C4&amp;active=no&amp;lctg=142D25603592E40F25C34543C4&amp;utm_source=listrak&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=https%3a%2f%2fwww.mcall.com%2f2026%2f05%2f30%2fbethlehem-police-officer-sean-reifel-love-island-usa-mayor-disappointed%2f&amp;utm_campaign=trib-morning_call-breaking_news-nl&amp;utm_content=alert\">the Morning Call<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">\u201cI\u2019m not a model, not an actor. I\u2019m a police officer, actually,\u201d Reifel said in a trailer for the <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y9x3FoYGEKA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y9x3FoYGEKA\">Peacock hit reality dating competition.<\/a> \u201cYou could be having the worst day of your life and I\u2019ll just help you sift through that.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">But his former bosses aren\u2019t too happy with the new-found islander\u2019s quest for love &#8230; and a $100,000 prize. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">\u201cI love Sean, he\u2019s a good guy, he was a great officer, but I\u2019m disappointed,\u201d Bethlehem Police Chief Michelle Kott told the Morning Call, \u201cjust because we work so incredibly hard to try to recruit the best people we can to be part of the Bethlehem Police Department.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Reifel\u2019s departure, Kott said, leaves another vacancy in the department, which is currently 15 people short, according to the Morning Call. <\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">\u201cThis is America, people can do what they want,\u201d said Bethlehem Mayor J. William Reynolds, who swore Reifel in last August. \u201cOur mission, &#8230; it\u2019s to have a police department that is fully staffed, and we take that responsibility very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Reynolds added: \u201cWe are disappointed when we invest in an individual with our time, our money, our resources and the opportunity cost to hire somebody else, and then they leave after [nine] months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"inq-p text-primary  \">Season eight of Love Island USA \u2014 where a group of hot, single people will live together in a Fijian villa and compete for love, all while sun-soaked chaos and <a class=\"relative z-1 text-blue-mid hover:shadow-lightmode\" data-link-type=\"article-body\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/LoveIslandUSA\/comments\/1m6ocbc\/what_are_the_funniest_moments_and_memes_of_love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/LoveIslandUSA\/comments\/1m6ocbc\/what_are_the_funniest_moments_and_memes_of_love\/\">meme-able moments<\/a> will surely ensue \u2014 is set to premiere Tuesday, June 2, on Peacock. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min A Lehigh Valley police officer has left the force to join the villa.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207077,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,90977],"class_list":["post-207076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-love-island-usa-peacock-bethlehem-lehigh-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207076\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}