{"id":252952,"date":"2026-07-27T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252952\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:06:08","slug":"pa-state-police-to-conduct-temporary-dui-roving-patrols-in-northampton-lehigh-counties-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/252952\/","title":{"rendered":"Pa. State Police to conduct temporary DUI roving patrols in Northampton, Lehigh counties\u00a0 | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa.- Pennsylvania State Police announced that Driving Under the Influence roving patrols will be conducted in Northampton and Lehigh Counties for two weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Patrols will be in Northampton County from July 31 to Aug. 2 and in Lehigh County from Aug. 7 to Aug. 9, officials said in a news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Pennsylvania State Police said the enforcement\u2019s purpose is to reduce the number of alcohol- and drug-related crashes and the number of DUI drivers.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Motorists are reminded to follow the Paul Miller law, which prohibits the use of hand-held devices while driving, according to the report. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Drivers convicted of using a hand-held device while driving will receive a $50 fine, court costs, and other fees, according to the release.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Police reminded motorists that any driver who intentionally fails or refuses to bring their vehicle to a stop or attempt to flee an officer could have a maximum sentence of 7 years in prison, a $15,000 fine and pay for any damages and injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Visit the Commonwealth of PA\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"Hyperlink SCXW141498483 BCX0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/psp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">website<\/a> for more information.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa.- Pennsylvania State Police announced that Driving Under the Influence roving patrols will be conducted in Northampton&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252953,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14496,119,121,120,7894,13188,18837,23193,6560,4729,1753,7362,107901],"class_list":["post-252952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-alcohol","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-august","tag-drug","tag-dui","tag-july","tag-lehigh","tag-northampton","tag-pa-state-police","tag-patrol","tag-roving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252952","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=252952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252952\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}