{"id":310974,"date":"2026-10-21T01:36:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T01:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310974\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T01:36:39","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T01:36:39","slug":"swatting-calls-target-bethlehem-home-with-bogus-gunfire-reports-twice-in-2-days-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/310974\/","title":{"rendered":"Swatting calls target Bethlehem home with bogus gunfire reports twice in 2 days (UPDATE)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"YRFGVGMKWVHWPIUAAUTR3SSFNA\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/bethlehem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/bethlehem\">Bethlehem <\/a>police are hunting for whoever made dangerous swatting calls targeting the same home twice this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZX3NZDI43ZAUBA3RTK52UPRPMQ\">Both calls reported gunfire, but each turned out to be a hoax. No one is in custody, city police Captain William Audelo told lehighvalleylive.com on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"LPDA7YH4RFGGZBHM5NZUTGIS6I\">Officers were called to a home in the 1800 block of Norwood Street shortly after 11 p.m. Monday and again just before 4:15 p.m. Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EFZ7PQXK4FFM3PCKG7OHU6UDLQ\">Audelo said both calls came from a blocked number and the caller was using a voice modifier. In both incidents, scanner audio indicates callers described shots fired and a victim inside the home in both incidents. Police, firefighters and other emergency personnel were instructed to set up a staging area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"RKEYM4EFTZDY5KUEFAF6VXRQ54\">A Northampton County 911 dispatcher confirmed the all-clear on the Monday incident, saying, \u201cEverything is 10-4, there is no patient.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"4ZXGZZ6XMVDXXBIQRW3NYDNDXM\">Audelo said in both incidents, contact was made with a resident and investigators observed no issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VLH547HVYFFLPELMUZRPGQALQI\">Bethlehem police seek the public\u2019s help in the investigation. Those with additional information are asked to call police at 610-865-7000, or email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/crime\/2026\/10\/mailto:BethlehemPolice@bethlehem-pa.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BethlehemPolice@bethlehem-pa.gov<\/a>. Anonymous information can also be provided on the city police department\u2019s tip line at 610-691-6660.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bethlehem police are hunting for whoever made dangerous swatting calls targeting the same home twice this week. Both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-310974","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\/310974","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=310974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}