NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, Pa. – As a social media trend gains popularity, Northampton County District Attorney Stephen G. Baratta is informing the public about the serious dangers of cliff jumping at a quarry in Bangor Borough.<\/p>\n
DA Baratta says he is aware of the recent social media posts depicting individuals jumping from heights exceeding 100 feet into the local quarry, and urges community members against participating.<\/p>\n
Buratta says this is not only a dangerous and potentially life-threatening activity, but warns that individuals can be arrested and charged for jumping.<\/p>\n
The Bangor Borough Police Department shared that they frequently respond to incidents at the quarry during the summer months, including several cases resulting in severe injuries and fatalities.<\/p>\n
The Bangor Borough Police Department and the Northampton County District Attorney say they take these incidents very seriously.<\/p>\n
All further inquiries should be directed to the Northampton County Office of the District Attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTHAMPTON COUNTY, Pa. – As a social media trend gains popularity, Northampton County District Attorney Stephen G. Baratta…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,434],"class_list":["post-302650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-northampton-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302650","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=302650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}