{"id":313048,"date":"2026-10-24T00:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313048\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T00:20:10","slug":"man-wanted-on-assault-charges-in-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/313048\/","title":{"rendered":"Man wanted on assault charges in Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, PA \u2014 Authorities are searching for a Reading man wanted on aggravated assault and strangulation charges.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Morales Jr., 25, of Reading, is wanted by the Berks County Sheriff\u2019s Office in connection with an incident on March 8, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Morales entered the victim\u2019s apartment and strangled her, restricting her ability to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>Morales also allegedly threw a phone at the victim, striking her left wrist.<\/p>\n<p>Charges were filed by the Reading Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Morales is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the Berks County Sheriff\u2019s Office at 610-478-6390 or submit a tip through the Berks County Sheriff mobile app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, PA \u2014 Authorities are searching for a Reading man wanted on aggravated assault and strangulation charges. Jose&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-313048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313048","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=313048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}