{"id":321973,"date":"2026-11-05T22:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321973\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T22:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T22:00:10","slug":"large-police-presence-on-route-145-due-to-pursuit-on-i-78-by-psp-officials-say-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/321973\/","title":{"rendered":"Large police presence on Route 145 due to pursuit on I-78 by PSP, officials say | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UPPER SAUCON TWP., Pa. &#8211; There was a large police presence on Route 145 and Vera Cruz Road early Thursday afternoon due to a pursuit on I-78 by Pennsylvania State Police, Trooper Nathan Branosky says.<\/p>\n<p>69 News crews on scene saw several police cars in the area, with officers scanning the nearby woods with binoculars and guns.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"K-9 Route 145 and Vera Cruz Road pursuit\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6aece0b206209.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, K-9s were brought to the scene, and authorities were seen putting a drone up in the air for an additional way to search the area.<\/p>\n<p>The incident did not stop traffic on Route 145 on either side of the roadway, as both sides of the road remained open throughout the incident.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Drone Route 145 and Vera Cruz Road pursuit\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/6aece0da0a642.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The search caused a nearby business to post on social media that they were closing for the day due to the police activity.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stick with 69 News on the web and on the air to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER SAUCON TWP., Pa. &#8211; There was a large police presence on Route 145 and Vera Cruz Road&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232,8178],"class_list":["post-321973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area","tag-southern-lehigh-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321973","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=321973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}