{"id":262137,"date":"2026-08-09T14:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262137\/"},"modified":"2026-08-09T14:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-09T14:40:10","slug":"allentown-man-arrested-for-firing-gun-outside-home-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/262137\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown man arrested for firing gun outside home, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Allentown man was arrested early Sunday for allegedly firing off a handgun outside his North Eighth Street home.<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Fata, 31, is charged with aggravated assault, terroristic threats, simple assault and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to the 400 block North Eighth Street around 1:30 a.m. Sunday for reports of a man shooting a handgun outside. As police arrived, Fata ran into a residence and officers could hear gunshots coming from inside the home, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Officers surrounded the home, and Fata was taken into custody without incident. There were no injuries, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man was arrested early Sunday for allegedly firing off a handgun outside his North Eighth Street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,202,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":["post-262137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-lehigh-county","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262137","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=262137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}