{"id":284626,"date":"2026-09-12T18:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284626\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T18:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T18:10:15","slug":"lehigh-valley-phantoms-manager-of-fun-charged-with-possessing-child-pornography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/284626\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley Phantoms &#8216;manager of fun&#8217; charged with possessing child pornography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh Valley Phantoms employee charged with possessing child pornography<\/p>\n<p>WPVI<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"6abc Digital Staff Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789236615_306_16248352_2024-wpvi-generic-6abc-logo-on-white-background-img-v3.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, September 12, 2026 3:01PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; An Allentown man was arrested and charged Friday with possession of child pornography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say 29-year-old Matthew Francis had videos on his phone, depicting children as young as 5 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Francis is employed as the &#8220;manager of fun&#8221; for the Lehigh Valley Phantoms ice hockey team.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The Phantoms say he has been suspended from the organization pending the outcome of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley Phantoms employee charged with possessing child pornography WPVI Saturday, September 12, 2026 3:01PM ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WPVI)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[118659,153,155,154],"class_list":["post-284626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-118659","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284626","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=284626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}