PALMER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A man was arrested in Northampton County Wednesday for reportedly attempting to carjack an occupied truck.<\/p>\n
Randolph Patrick Adams, 35, of Bethlehem, is facing multiple charges, including robbery of motor vehicle, theft by unlawful taking, and unauthorize use of motor vehicle, Palmer Township police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
On Wednesday at approximately 10:38 a.m., the Palmer Township Police responded to a business in the 2700 block of Freemansburg Ave, for reports of a man who entered an occupied vehicle and attempted to drive away, according to police.<\/p>\n
Responding officers were able to locate the man, later identified as Randolph Patrick Adams, on Freemansburg Ave and took him into custody without incident, police said.<\/p>\n
Investigators found that Adams entered a truck with a female passenger sitting inside on the passenger seat, according to Palmer Township police.<\/p>\n
He reversed the truck as the female was screaming, then exited the truck and started running.<\/p>\n
Adams was transported to the Palmer Township Police Department for processing and later arraigned by Magisterial District Justice Hutnik and committed to the Northampton County Prison on $50,000.00 bail straight, authorities said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALMER TOWNSHIP, Pa. — A man was arrested in Northampton County Wednesday for reportedly attempting to carjack an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,31,6290],"class_list":["post-211006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime","tag-easton-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211006","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=211006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}