Published September 10. 2026 02:45PM<\/p>\n
State police at the Bethlehem barracks reported the following incidents:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Police are investigating the reported theft of $8,000 worth of copper wire from a site off Molasses Barrel and Old Mill roads, Washington Township.<\/p>\n
The victim is Verizon, Allentown.<\/p>\n
The theft occurred during the afternoon hours of Aug. 27, police said.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Police said that Alfred Saks, 42, of Slatington, is facing charges of driving under the influence of alcohol following a traffic stop police made at 12:51 a.m. Aug. 16.<\/p>\n
He was stopped in a 2013 Ford F-150 for Title 75 violations on Mauch Chunk Road, North Whitehall Township, after which time police said he was found to be intoxicated.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Matthew Meli, 22, of Saylorsburg, was cited following an incident at 10:30 p.m. Sept. 4 on Liberty Drive, Allen Township.<\/p>\n
Police said he trespassed on property of Prologis, Breinigsville.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Daniel Smith, 37, of Tamaqua, was charged with terroristic threats after police observed a fight in progress at 1:13 p.m. Sept. 1 at the intersection of routes 309 and 873 in North Whitehall Township.<\/p>\n
Police said victims of the incident are two 33-year-old men from Slatington.<\/p>\n
They said that Smith brandished a large knife during the fight, which ended when police detained and separated the participants without incident.<\/p>\n
A 2013 Dodge Ram truck was involved in the incident, police said.<\/p>\n
They said charges against those involved have been approved by the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office but did not specify who in addition to Smith had been charged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published September 10. 2026 02:45PM State police at the Bethlehem barracks reported the following incidents: \u2022 Police are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283309,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-283308","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\/283308","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=283308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}