{"id":240577,"date":"2026-07-10T21:53:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240577\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T21:53:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T21:53:10","slug":"kitten-thrown-from-vehicle-struck-by-another-in-suspected-animal-cruelty-case-bethlehem-police-say-crime-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/240577\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitten thrown from vehicle, struck by another in suspected animal cruelty case, Bethlehem police say | Crime Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 Bethlehem police are searching for suspects involved in a suspected case of animal cruelty over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say that on Sunday at approximately 5:09 p.m., a kitten was thrown from the window of a moving vehicle near 770 Hellertown Road. The kitten was then struck by another vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>A witness reported the incident but was unable to provide a description of the suspect vehicle or its occupants.<\/p>\n<p>The Bethlehem Police Department asks anyone who witnessed the incident or has information that could assist investigators to contact Animal Control Officer Ruch at 610-419-2027 or via email at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfmz.com\/news\/crime\/kitten-thrown-from-vehicle-struck-by-another-in-suspected-animal-cruelty-case-bethlehem-police-say\/mailto:ARuch@bethlehem-pa.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ARuch@bethlehem-pa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. \u2014 Bethlehem police are searching for suspects involved in a suspected case of animal cruelty over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,1391,31],"class_list":["post-240577","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-bethlehem-area","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240577","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=240577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}