{"id":283860,"date":"2026-09-11T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283860\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:56:16","slug":"suspect-in-kidnapping-sex-assault-of-child-is-in-country-illegally-dhs-says-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/283860\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in kidnapping, sex assault of child is in country illegally, DHS says | Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re learning more about the man arrested in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a child in New Jersey.<\/p>\n

Lester Noe Perez-Amador is an undocumented immigrant from Guatemala, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).<\/p>\n

He’s accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 6-year-old from Washington Township, Warren County.<\/p>\n

DHS says he illegally entered the country. They’re now urging Washington Township to transfer Perez-Amador to ICE custody to be deported.<\/p>\n

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Suspect in kidnapping of 6-year-old in Warren Co. now charged with sexual assault, prosecutor says<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’re learning more about the man arrested in the kidnapping and sexual assault of a child in New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283861,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,31,834],"class_list":["post-283860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-crime","tag-warren-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283860","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=283860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}