ALLENTOWN, Pa. – An Allentown man accused of homicide in a deadly 2023 stabbing at a local hookah lounge has been found not guilty.<\/p>\n
According to the Lehigh County DA\u2019s Office, a jury on Monday acquitted 26\u2011year\u2011old Isiah Yeager of all homicide charges. His trial began June 8, 2026.<\/p>\n
The stabbing happened just before 3 a.m. in June 2023 in the 1500 block of Union Boulevard. Police said 29\u2011year\u2011old Kevin Tarafa was stabbed inside Synergy Hookah Lounge after a fight. Officers later found him outside the building, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n
Authorities say Yeager was one of four people charged in connection with the incident. The other three \u2014 Stefhon Buchanan, 28, of Allentown; Kali Martin, 25, of Whitehall Township; and Jerome Joyner, 40, of Bethlehem \u2014 are accused of allegedly helping clean Tarafa\u2019s blood from the lounge floor after he was dragged outside.<\/p>\n
The three are each charged with one count of misdemeanor\u20112 tampering with evidence and are scheduled for preliminary hearings on August 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – An Allentown man accused of homicide in a deadly 2023 stabbing at a local hookah…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[119,1646,153,155,154,457,433,95816,2794,1063,65628,1112,4758],"class_list":["post-219883","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-lehigh-county","tag-not-guilty","tag-stabbing","tag-synergy-hookah-lounge","tag-tampering-with-evidence","tag-trial","tag-verdict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219883","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=219883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}