{"id":264054,"date":"2026-08-12T17:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264054\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T17:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T17:10:39","slug":"police-arrest-man-accused-of-breaking-into-forks-twp-home-hitting-woman-northampton-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/264054\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest man accused of breaking into Forks Twp. home, hitting woman | Northampton County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NORTHAMPTON CO., Pa. &#8211; A\u00a0man police say broke into a home and hit a woman in\u00a0Northampton County was arrested Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Braggs was transported to Judge Hutnik&#8217;s office for an arraignment, where bail was set at $15,000, the\u00a0Forks Township Police Department said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Braggs was taken to Northampton County Prison.<\/p>\n<p>It happened last Friday morning in Forks Township.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say Braggs broke into a home on Canterbury Court around 7 a.m. through an unlocked window. He then allegedly slapped a woman in the face while she was lying in bed before he fled on a bike.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the woman knew Braggs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHAMPTON CO., Pa. &#8211; A\u00a0man police say broke into a home and hit a woman in\u00a0Northampton County was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,434],"class_list":["post-264054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264054","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=264054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}