{"id":248508,"date":"2026-07-21T14:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248508\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T14:52:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:52:06","slug":"former-allentown-police-officer-accused-of-rape-appears-in-court-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/248508\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Allentown police officer accused of rape appears in court | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A former Allentown police officer accused of breaking the law was in court Tuesday for a discovery hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Jason Krasley, 47, faces three charges that he allegedly raped prostitutes while he was a member of the Vice Squad.<\/p>\n<p>Krasley has denied the charges.<\/p>\n<p>He was originally charged with seven counts of rape. Four have been dismissed, along with a theft case for various reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Krasley was originally charged with another officer, Evan Weaver.<\/p>\n<p>Charges against Weaver were dismissed after the alleged victim in the case stopped cooperating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; A former Allentown police officer accused of breaking the law was in court Tuesday for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,28],"class_list":["post-248508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248508","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=248508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}