Published August 18. 2026 11:55AM<\/p>\n
Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan announces an Allentown man charged in a shooting and burglary at a Fountain Hill pharmacy has pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n
Miguel Angel Martinez, 57, of Allentown, pleaded guilty to felony charges of conspiracy to commit burglary, burglary and a misdemeanor charge of possessing instruments of crime.<\/p>\n
Martinez pleaded guilty to the charges today in a hearing before Judge Anna-Kristie M. Marks.<\/p>\n
Martinez\u2019s sentencing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. June 26. He faces a possible maximum<\/p>\n
sentence of 22 and one-half to 45 years in state prison.<\/p>\n
Also charged in the case is David Montes Vazquez, 34, of Bethlehem. He is charged with felony counts of conspiracy to commit burglary, conspiracy to possession of a firearm prohibited, burglary, receiving stolen property and misdemeanor charges of conspiracy to recklessly endangering another person, conspiracy to make repairs\/sell an offensive weapon, conspiracy to possession of a weapon and conspiracy to theft by unlawful taking.<\/p>\n
Shortly after 9 p.m. on Dec. 25, 2024, Fountain Hill Police were called to a sounding burglar alarm at the Fountain Hill Pharmacy at 1049 Broadway.<\/p>\n
Police arrived and saw two men in the store, later identified as Martinez and Vazquez. Officers say Vazquez pointed a gun at a borough police officer who opened fire, but did not hit either defendant.<\/p>\n
Residents were ordered to stay inside their homes during a standoff. Both defendants eventually surrendered to police.<\/p>\n
Both men broke into the building, spray painted surveillance cameras while inside and stole medication.<\/p>\n
This case was investigated by Fountain Hill Police Detective Raymond Anthony and Lehigh<\/p>\n
County Homicide Task Force Detectives Moses Miller and James Bruchak.<\/p>\n
The cases were prosecuted by First Assistant District Attorney Patricia Fuentes Mulqueen and Assistant District Attorney Catherine A. Pleickhardt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published August 18. 2026 11:55AM Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan announces an Allentown man charged in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-267745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267745","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=267745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}