{"id":272829,"date":"2026-08-26T21:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272829\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:48:10","slug":"man-arrested-on-strangulation-charge-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272829\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on strangulation charge in Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, PA \u2014 A man wanted on felony charges was apprehended while hiding behind furniture in a third-floor residence on Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Morales, 46, of Reading, was arrested on the 1000 block of Cotton Street by the Berks County Sheriff\u2019s Office Warrants Unit.<\/p>\n<p>Morales was wanted on charges of strangulation and simple assault filed by the Reading Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Two residents at the location were charged with hindering apprehension for concealing Morales\u2019 whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>Morales was transported to Central Booking and arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>He was later released on unsecured bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, PA \u2014 A man wanted on felony charges was apprehended while hiding behind furniture in a third-floor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-272829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272829","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=272829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}