{"id":221684,"date":"2026-06-17T21:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221684\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T21:28:11","slug":"bethlehem-township-commissioner-faces-stalking-charges-in-court-appearance-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/221684\/","title":{"rendered":"Bethlehem Township commissioner faces stalking charges in court appearance | Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An elected Northampton County official accused of harassing his neighbors appeared in court Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Bethlehem Township Commissioner Michael Hudak had his preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s charged with stalking and harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Hudak is accused of driving his riding lawnmower toward his neighbor while staring at him and giving the middle finger to his security cameras.<\/p>\n<p>Hudak denies any wrongdoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An elected Northampton County official accused of harassing his neighbors appeared in court Wednesday afternoon. Bethlehem Township Commissioner&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,4958,434],"class_list":["post-221684","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-city_township_county_councils","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221684","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=221684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}