{"id":254054,"date":"2026-07-28T21:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254054\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T21:16:07","slug":"wanted-berks-county-man-arrested-for-stolen-property-theft-charges-bethlehem-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254054\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted Berks County man arrested for stolen property, theft charges | Bethlehem Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A wanted 40-year-old Reading man was taken into custody on Sunday for stolen property and theft charges, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Schirmer was arrested on Route 378 near the Dollar Tree at the Saucon Square shopping Center around 11:30 a.m. Sunday, according to the Lower Saucon Township Police.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Schirmer was wanted by the Muhlenberg Township Police Department for access device fraud, receiving stolen property, and theft of property lost.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the man was transported to Northampton County Prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211; A wanted 40-year-old Reading man was taken into custody on Sunday for stolen property and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142371,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1646,349,10716,108322,206,736,128,130,129,59354,209],"class_list":["post-254054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-arrest","tag-berks-county","tag-fraud","tag-matthew-schirmer","tag-police","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-stolen-property","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254054","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=254054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}