Published August 20. 2026 09:42AM<\/p>\n
Salisbury Township police Officer Noah Lopresti has been promoted to corporal-detective.<\/p>\n
Lopresti was administered the oath of office by Magisterial District Judge Kyle B. Miller, District Court 31-1-08, at the Aug. 13 Salisbury Township board of commissioners meeting.<\/p>\n
Lopresti\u2019s wife, Candice, pinned on his badge at the swearing-in ceremony.<\/p>\n
According to the Salisbury Township Police Department, Lopresti graduated from the Allentown Police Academy in 2015 and joined the Salisbury Township Police Department in 2017.<\/p>\n
Lopresti has served as a field training officer, Taser instructor and BolaWrap instructor for the police department.<\/p>\n
Lopresti served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 2008 to 2012 as an M1A1 Abrams tank mechanic.<\/p>\n
In 2009, Lopresti deployed to Afghanistan and served in Operation Enduring Freedom.<\/p>\n
Lopresti was honorably discharged from the Marines at the rank of corporal.<\/p>\n
Before the swearing-in ceremony, Salisbury Township Police Chief Donald Sabo told commissioners, \u201cThis is part of our 24\/7 coverage.\u201d<\/p>\n
After the meeting, Sabo said, \u201cWe\u2019ve been working on having 24\/7 supervision covering the administration of officers.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sabo said the 24-officer police department is at full staffing for the first time in many years.<\/p>\n
In addition to Sabo and Salisbury Township Police Lt. Christopher Casey, the department has two sergeants, two corporals and two detectives.<\/p>\n
In other business at the Aug. 13 meeting, commissioners voted 5-0 to approve:<\/p>\n
\u2022 A resolution authorizing a grant application to the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development and the Commonwealth Financing Authority for a Northampton and Lehigh counties Local Share Account grant of $164,421.76 to purchase two police cruisers.<\/p>\n
Salisbury Township Commissioner Alex Karol made the motion, seconded by Salisbury Township Commissioner Allison Leayman.<\/p>\n
\u2022 A motion to approve Financial Security Release Certification No. 1 for $675,559.83 requested by Vistas of South Mountain LLC.<\/p>\n
Salisbury Township Commissioner Alok Patnaik made the motion, seconded by Salisbury Township Commissioner Heather Lipkin.<\/p>\n
The proposed Salisbury Township Comprehensive Plan update was discussed during the workshop following the meeting.<\/p>\n
Salisbury Township meetings scheduled at the municipal building, 2900 S. Pike Ave., include: 7 p.m. Aug. 19, Environmental Advisory Council; 7 p.m. Aug. 26, Planning Commission; and 7 p.m. Aug. 27, Board of Commissioners.<\/p>\n
PRESS PHOTO BY PAUL WILLISTEINSalisbury Township Police Officer Noah Lopresti is administered the oath of office of corporal-detective by Judge Kyle B. Miller at the Aug. 13 Salisbury Township board of commissioners\u2019 meeting. With Lopresti is his wife Candice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published August 20. 2026 09:42AM Salisbury Township police Officer Noah Lopresti has been promoted to corporal-detective. Lopresti was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268878,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-268877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268877","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=268877"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268877\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}