{"id":308886,"date":"2026-10-17T20:27:32","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308886\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T20:27:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T20:27:32","slug":"police-patient-barricaded-himself-in-er-and-attempted-to-harm-staff-at-st-lukes-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/308886\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: patient barricaded himself in ER and attempted to harm staff at St. Luke&#8217;s Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dramatic moments in Lehigh County after a patient barricaded himself in an emergency room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to police, he tried to harm staff members at St. Luke&#8217;s Bethlehem, in Fountain Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He reportedly fashioned a makeshift weapon out of a controller used to call hospital staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Lehigh County Emergency Response Team was able to diffuse the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A hospital spokesperson says it was a &#8220;Behavioral Health Incident,&#8221; and there was never any danger to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dramatic moments in Lehigh County after a patient barricaded himself in an emergency room. According to police, he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-308886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308886","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=308886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}