{"id":269332,"date":"2026-08-21T06:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269332\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T06:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T06:40:10","slug":"easton-police-searching-for-man-wanted-on-strangulation-assault-charges-easton-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/269332\/","title":{"rendered":"Easton Police searching for man wanted on strangulation, assault charges | Easton Area"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Alexander Lee Smith Jr.<\/p>\n

Courtesy of the Easton Police Dept.<\/p>\n

EASTON, Pa. – Easton Police are asking for the public’s help locating a 24-year-old man wanted on multiple charges including strangulation and aggravated assault.<\/p>\n

Alexander Lee Smith Jr., described as a white Hispanic man, is wanted on charges of strangulation, aggravated assault, simple assault, criminal trespass, and criminal mischief, according to the Easton Police Department.<\/p>\n

Police say Smith was last seen on August 8th at approximately 6 p.m. in the 600 block of Canal Street in Easton. He was driving a 2014 black Infiniti G50s with Pennsylvania registration NHC6733, according to authorities.The police department has not released additional details about the alleged incident leading to the charges.<\/p>\n

The police department has not released additional details about the alleged incident leading to the charges.<\/p>\n

If you see Smith, police warn do not approach him \u2014 call authorities immediately.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information on Smith’s whereabouts is urged to contact the Easton Police Department at 610-657-2446 or the Northampton County Communications Center non-emergency number at 610-759-2200. Tips can also be emailed to Officer Wagner at dwagner@easton-pa.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Lee Smith Jr. Courtesy of the Easton Police Dept. EASTON, Pa. – Easton Police are asking for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[4862,113533,153,155,154,1911,1910,113396,113534,26430,25093,27436,14494],"class_list":["post-269332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-aggravated-assault","tag-alexander-lee-smith-jr","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-criminal-mischief","tag-criminal-trespass","tag-easton-police-department","tag-infinity-g50s","tag-simple-assault","tag-strangulation","tag-wanted","tag-warrant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269332","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=269332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}