BETHLEHEM \u2014 A Troy woman who drove onto a soccer field in Bethlehem last year in an attempt to evade police after stealing from a Walmart store has been sentenced on reckless endangerment and burglary charges.<\/p>\n
April A. Mahoney, 49, was sentenced to 2\u00bd to 5 years in prison for third-degree burglary and 1 year in prison for first-degree reckless endangerment, before Judge William Little in Albany County Court on Thursday. The latter sentence will be served concurrently.<\/p>\n
Mahoney was arrested last fall after a police chase ended when she drove down an embankment and onto soccer fields at Elm Avenue Park as children played.<\/p>\n
The incident began at 6 p.m. on Sept. 16, 2025, when town police were called to investigate a larceny at the Walmart at 311 Route 9W. Police spotted a Ford Escape pulling out of the parking lot, and an officer tried to stop the vehicle.<\/p>\n
Police said the vehicle \u201cfled at a high rate of speed\u201d on Route 9W before heading west on Feura Bush Road before reaching the park.<\/p>\n
After driving onto the field, Mahoney\u00a0and her two passengers abandoned the car and ran into a wooded area near the park. Town police arrested them shortly afterward.<\/p>\n
Mahoney was initially charged with a variety of felonies and misdemeanors, including first-degree reckless endangerment, criminal mischief, conspiracy, reckless driving, petit larceny and resisting arrest.<\/p>\n
Police later found evidence that Mahoney had participated in multiple thefts around Bethlehem, resulting in the third-degree burglary charge she pleaded guilty to, according to the district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM \u2014 A Troy woman who drove onto a soccer field in Bethlehem last year in an attempt…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-210969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210969","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=210969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}