{"id":213803,"date":"2026-06-08T17:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213803\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T17:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T17:14:08","slug":"no-one-in-custody-after-gunshots-reported-on-dl-trail-police-say-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213803\/","title":{"rendered":"No one in custody after gunshots reported on D&#038;L Trail, police say | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212;\u00a0Police in Bethlehem and Lower Saucon townships are investigating a report of shots fired along the D&amp;L Trail on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Township police say they received a call just before 5:00 p.m., kayakers in the water reported being shot at by a shooter on the Lower Saucon side of the river.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The victims evacuated the river onto the banks of the Bethlehem Township side, near Wilson Avenue, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Two other callers also reported hearing gunshots, and Lower Saucon Police found shell casings around the area.<\/p>\n<p>No one is in custody, township police said. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Township limited access to the D&amp;L Trail and two Wilson Avenue trailheads on Saturday, authorities said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say the trail was closed from the time they arrived on scene around 4:56 p.m. to nightfall. Bethlehem Township volunteer fire company assisted with the closure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with any information is requested to call the non-emergency line for Northampton County &#8211; 610.759.2200 &#8211; and report what they saw.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212;\u00a0Police in Bethlehem and Lower Saucon townships are investigating a report of shots fired along&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391,31],"class_list":["post-213803","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-bethlehem-area","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213803","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=213803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}