a blog post announced.<\/a> The show promises a $100,000 prize to the winner.<\/p>\n\u201cThe 29-year-old police officer was sent home after new Bombshell, Corbin, was allowed to pick a girl first during the recoupling. From there, each girl chose the boy they had the strongest connection with \u2026 [leaving] Sean single and vulnerable, with Host Ariana Madix revealing this meant he was dumped from the Island,\u201d the blog said.<\/p>\n
Reifel was sworn in as a Bethlehem police officer in August and had his final day May 20 in order to go on the show.<\/p>\n
The departure earned criticism from police Chief Michelle Kott and Mayor J. William Reynolds during a time when the police department is working to fill vacancies.<\/p>\n
In an online post Sunday purportedly by Reifel\u2019s mother, Beth Reifel Bow, she said, \u201cI want everyone to know that I am so proud of my son. It takes a lot to be scrutinized by the world. I\u2019m so proud of him for showing up 100% as himself. He was brave enough to live life and take a chance. Team Sean forever. I\u2019m so proud of you, son! Ravello is excited to see his daddy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bethlehem police officer who left the department to join the new season of \u201cLove Island USA\u201d was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,1681,289,432],"class_list":["post-214588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-entertainment","tag-things-to-do","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214588","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=214588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}