{"id":213998,"date":"2026-06-08T22:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213998\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T22:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T22:05:12","slug":"jury-selection-begins-in-homicide-case-at-allentown-hookah-lounge-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/213998\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury selection begins in homicide case at Allentown hookah lounge | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Jury selection got underway Monday in the trial of a man charged in a deadly stabbing at hookah lounge in Allentown.<\/p>\n<p>Isiah Yeager is charged with homicide in the death of 29-year-old Kevin Tarafa.<\/p>\n<p>It happened back in 2023 inside the Synergy Hookah Lounge on Union Boulevard.<\/p>\n<p>Three others were arrested in connection with the stabbing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; Jury selection got underway Monday in the trial of a man charged in a deadly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,1646,153,155,154,457,1062,60029,93721,2794,1063,1112,75078],"class_list":["post-213998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-allentown","tag-arrest","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-homicide","tag-isiah-yeager","tag-jury-selection","tag-kevin-tarafa","tag-stabbing","tag-synergy-hookah-lounge","tag-trial","tag-union-boulevard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213998","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=213998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}