{"id":267123,"date":"2026-08-17T22:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267123\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T22:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T22:16:07","slug":"da-jack-pletz-placed-on-house-arrest-following-primary-day-explosive-incident-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/267123\/","title":{"rendered":"DA: Jack Pletz placed on house arrest following Primary Day explosive incident | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CATASAQUA, Pa. &#8211; A Lehigh County man facing a slew of charges stemming from a Primary Election Day incident is now under house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>A bail hearing was held Monday for Jack Pletz.<\/p>\n<p>The DA says he was placed on house arrest with an electronic monitoring device and was ordered not to have contact with any witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged last week with harassment and driving with a suspended or revoked license.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say after Pletz&#8217; Catasauqua neighbor testified against him during his preliminary hearing last month. Pletz harassed the man while driving past his house.<\/p>\n<p>The new charges come on top of previous charges Pletz is facing for allegedly throwing an explosive device out of his car near a polling place on Primary Day in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CATASAQUA, Pa. &#8211; A Lehigh County man facing a slew of charges stemming from a Primary Election Day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,112644,8469,65322,112643,18301,112642,112641,433,112645],"class_list":["post-267123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-bail-hearing","tag-catasauqua","tag-court-case","tag-driving-with-suspended-license","tag-harassment","tag-house-arrest","tag-jack-pletz","tag-lehigh-county","tag-primary-election-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267123","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=267123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}