{"id":223682,"date":"2026-06-20T04:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223682\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T04:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T04:26:08","slug":"whitehall-police-investigating-suspicious-package-at-local-wawa-crime-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/223682\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitehall police investigating &#8216;suspicious package&#8217; at local Wawa | Crime Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; Police in Lehigh County are on the scene of a Wawa on Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whitehall Township police responded to the Wawa Convenience Store at 2985 MacArthur Road just after 9:00 p.m. for a &#8220;suspicious package&#8221; investigation, according to county dispatchers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials say police remain on scene as of 10:30 p.m., but could give us no further information.<\/p>\n<p>The Allentown Fire Department has been called in to help with the investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Wawa was evacuated and the store was closed, according to the dispatchers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The entrances to the store were blocked by police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stick with 69 News on the web and on air for the latest updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WHITEHALL TOWNSHIP, Pa. &#8212; Police in Lehigh County are on the scene of a Wawa on Friday night.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,232,153,155,154,31],"class_list":["post-223682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown-area","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223682","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=223682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}