Published October 01. 2026 02:11PM<\/p>\n
A Bethlehem man pleaded guilty in Lehigh County Court to a 2022 drug death case involving fentanyl pills.<\/p>\n
Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan announced the guilty plea in the fatal drug overdose that occurred in Allentown, saying that Bryce Farole-Fountain, 23, but who was 19 at the time, has pleaded guilty to felony charges of drug delivery resulting in death, possession with intent to deliver and possession of firearms without a license.<\/p>\n
Following the plea, Judge Thomas M. Caffrey sentenced Farole-Fountain to serve 4\u00bd to 10\u00bd years in prison and a consecutive 10 years of probation.<\/p>\n
Holihan said that at 3:40 p.m. Dec. 26, 2022, Allentown police responded to an apartment in the 2000 block of Vine Street for an unconscious 16-year-old boy. He said the apartment belonged to Farole-Fountain, who was present when police arrived.<\/p>\n
The victim, who was only be identified in court by his initials of \u201cD.I.,\u201d was found dead in the living room. Next to him was a green pill container that was later found to contain 44 pink fentanyl pills stamped with an \u201cM\u201d and \u201c10,\u201d consistent with the markings of oxycodone.<\/p>\n
The district attorney said an autopsy determined the boy died from fentanyl toxicity.<\/p>\n
As the investigation unfolded, Holihan said, Farole-Fountain consented to a search of the apartment, where police found a money counter, packaging material, marijuana, shipping boxes from UPS and what appeared to be THC vape pens. Outside the apartment was a white Jeep that also belonged to Farole-Fountain.<\/p>\n
Holihan said officers were given consent to search the vehicle, and inside they found a large amount of marijuana, packaging materials, cash, three loaded handguns and an extended magazine. One of the three firearms recovered was a \u201cghost gun,\u201d and another was later determined to have been reported stolen in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Police determined Farole-Fountain was ineligible for a license to carry or purchase a handgun at the time.<\/p>\n
Holihan said that between the apartment and Farole-Fountain\u2019s vehicle, officers found more than $6,400 in cash, 12 pounds of marijuana, 8.6 grams of cocaine, several bottles of Promethazine, several boxes of THC vapes, scales, a money counter, the handguns and packaging material and other drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published October 01. 2026 02:11PM A Bethlehem man pleaded guilty in Lehigh County Court to a 2022 drug…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-301250","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\/301250","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=301250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}