{"id":231114,"date":"2026-06-29T18:14:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231114\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T18:14:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:14:09","slug":"man-sentenced-in-fountain-hill-pharmacy-burglary-armed-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231114\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced in Fountain Hill Pharmacy burglary, armed standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Allentown man was sentenced to years in prison for his involvement in a burglary and armed standoff at a Fountain Hill drug store on Christmas Eve 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Miguel Martinez, 57, was sentenced Friday to 8-20 years in prison for the incident that happened at Fountain Hill Pharmacy at 1049 Broadway that prompted a lockdown for several hours, Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan said in a news release. Martinez pleaded guilty in May to charges of burglary, conspiracy to commit that offense, and a misdemeanor of possessing an instrument of crime.<\/p>\n

Police responded to the pharmacy about 9 p.m. for a report of a burglar alarm. When they arrived, they found Martinez and his co-defendant David Montes Vazquez, inside the store, the DA\u2019s office said. Vazquez pointed a gun at an officer, who opened fire but did not hit either of them, authorities said.<\/p>\n

Both men refused to leave the pharmacy, and a standoff started, police said. Vazquez fired shots, some of which hit a nearby home, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Residents could not leave their home during the standoff. Both eventually surrendered to police, the DA\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n

Both men had broken into the pharmacy, spray painted surveillance cameras and stole medication, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

Vazquez, 34, of Bethlehem, is charged with burglary, conspiracy to commit that offense, prohibited possession of a firearm, recklessly endangering another person, conspiracy to make repairs to an offensive weapon, conspiracy to possess a weapon and conspiracy to commit theft. He remains in Lehigh County jail on $100,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man was sentenced to years in prison for his involvement in a burglary and armed standoff…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,153,1391,46,7585,433,182,139,434,28,432],"class_list":["post-231114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-area","tag-courts","tag-fountain-hill","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231114","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=231114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}