Seven suspected improvised explosives were found Friday in a home in Bethlehem, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
City police said the explosives, as well as suspected drugs and packaging materials, were found in a home in the 200 block of Eighth Avenue as part of an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n
Rondell McNeil, 50, is charged with drug possession with intent to deliver, possessing a weapon of mass destruction, risking catastrophe, prohibited possession of a firearm and misdemeanor drug offenses.<\/p>\n
Police searched McNeil\u2019s home after finding crack cocaine on him during a traffic stop earlier, the department said in a news release. After getting a search warrant, police found suspected crack cocaine, marijuana, packaging materials and scales, the release states.<\/p>\n
Investigators also found two guns there, according to authorities. McNeil, who has a previous felony conviction, is not allowed to have a firearm. The suspected explosives were found in a bedroom, officials said.<\/p>\n
McNeil is free after posting $100,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seven suspected improvised explosives were found Friday in a home in Bethlehem, according to authorities. City police said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285818,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,202,182,139,432],"class_list":["post-285817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-top-stories-tmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285817","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=285817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}