PALMER TWP., Pa. – On Friday, a 20-year-old man got into a verbal altercation with an employee at Mavis Discount Tire, threatening the worker and drawing a gun on him, police say.<\/p>\n
Palmer Township Police identified the suspect as 20-year-old Jacob Cotto Hockman.<\/p>\n
On Friday around 3:30 a.m., police were called to Mavis Discount Tire at 2481 Park Ave regarding a reported disturbance.<\/p>\n
According to Palmer Township Police, Cotto Hockman started a verbal argument with the employee after being advised to leave the property.<\/p>\n
While entering his vehicle, the male suspect became angry and threatened violence on the employee, saying he was going to punch him in the face, police say.<\/p>\n
Cotto Hockman put his car into reverse and attempted to strike the employee with his vehicle, authorities say.<\/p>\n
Police say Hockman drew a handgun on the worker out the window of his car, threatening to shoot him.<\/p>\n
Following the incident, officers tracked down the suspect\u2019s vehicle and conducted a vehicle stop.<\/p>\n
Cotto Hockman was taken into custody without any further incident, police say. He was transported to the Palmer Township Police Department for processing.<\/p>\n
Further investigation confirmed two black pellet handguns located inside the vehicle, officials say.<\/p>\n
Cotto Hockman has been charged with terroristic threats, simple assault, and recklessly endangering another person, according to police.<\/p>\n
He was arraigned and committed to the Northampton County Prison on $15,000 bail, authorities say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PALMER TWP., Pa. – On Friday, a 20-year-old man got into a verbal altercation with an employee at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1646,11228,37864,153,155,154,9001,112606,112607,13925,2182,206,16409],"class_list":["post-267060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-arrest","tag-assault","tag-bail","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-gun","tag-jacob-cotto-hockman","tag-mavis-discount-tire","tag-northampton-county-prison","tag-palmer-township","tag-police","tag-threat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267060","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=267060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}