{"id":231371,"date":"2026-06-30T00:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231371\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T00:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T00:31:10","slug":"man-going-to-prison-after-2024-pharmacy-heist-led-to-standoff-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231371\/","title":{"rendered":"Man going to prison after 2024 pharmacy heist led to standoff \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Pennsylvania man will spend years in state prison after pleading guilty to his role in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/fountain-hill-robbery-pharmacy\/4062467\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/news\/local\/fountain-hill-robbery-pharmacy\/4062467\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a 2024 shooting and standoff with police at a pharmacy<\/a>, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s Office. <\/p>\n<p>The incident unfolded on Dec. 24, 2024, around 9 p.m. at the Fountain Hill Pharmacy located on the 1000 block of Broadway in Fountain Hill, Pennsylvania, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived to the store, they said they saw two men inside the pharmacy who were later identified as Miguel Angel Martinez, 57, and David Montes Vazquez, 34. <\/p>\n<p>Officers reported that Vazquez pointed his gun at an officer who then opened fire at the suspects. The gunfire did not hit the two men inside the store. <\/p>\n<p>It was discovered that the two men broke into the store, used spray paint to cover the surveillance cameras and stole medication, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Martinez pleaded guilty to felony charges of conspiracy to commit burglary, burglary and a misdemeanor charge of possessing instruments of crime back in May of 2026, officials said. <\/p>\n<p>A judge sentenced Martinez to eight to 20 years in state prison. <\/p>\n<p>Vazquez is facing charges including conspiracy to commit burglary, burglary, receiving stolen property and other related charges, officials said. He is scheduled for a status conference on June 30. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Pennsylvania man will spend years in state prison after pleading guilty to his role in a 2024&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,433,28],"class_list":["post-231371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lehigh-county","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231371","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=231371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}