ALLENTOWN, Pa. — An Allentown man is facing charges after police said he was armed with a rifle in downtown Allentown on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
According to the Allentown Police Department, officers from the Patrol Division and Community Outreach Unit responded to the area of 4th and Hamilton Streets around 2:25 p.m. for reports of a man armed with a rifle.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, officers located an agitated man holding a rifle.<\/p>\n
Members of the department’s Crisis Negotiation Team responded to the scene and spoke with the man for some time. Officers were able to safely de-escalate the situation and take him into custody without incident, police said.<\/p>\n
Following an investigation by the Criminal Investigations Division, police determined the man is a convicted felon who is legally prohibited from possessing a firearm.<\/p>\n
Police identified the suspect as 35-year-old David Oxenreider of Allentown.<\/p>\n
Oxenreider is charged with felony illegal possession of a firearm and misdemeanor disorderly conduct involving threatening behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. — An Allentown man is facing charges after police said he was armed with a rifle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,31],"class_list":["post-243606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243606","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=243606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}