An escaped prisoner who prompted an hours-long manhunt in the Easton area Tuesday afternoon is back in custody, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Blair Cressman, 42, was apprehended by police just before 6:30 p.m. near Interstate 78 in the area of the Morgan Hill Road interchange in Williams Township, just outside Easton\u2019s South Side, according to Trooper Nathan Branosky, a state police spokesperson. Cressman was spotted by a police helicopter in a wooded area along the highway where police had converged, Branosky said.<\/p>\n
Additional charges against Cressman related to the escape are pending, according to Branosky<\/p>\n
Cressman, of Williams Township, was first arrested earlier Tuesday on charges of strangulation, simple assault, harassment and resisting arrest, authorities said.<\/p>\n
After he was formally arraigned on those charges at the district court on Philadelphia Road on Easton\u2019s South Side, Cressman escaped state police custody around 3:15 p.m., according to Branosky. A trooper attempted to apprehend Cressman, but he got away.<\/p>\n
One trooper was injured in the incident, Branosky said.<\/p>\n
State police led the manhunt along with Easton police and the Northampton County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
The manhunt drew a large police presence to the neighborhood surrounding the district court office, as well as the area around the I-78 interchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An escaped prisoner who prompted an hours-long manhunt in the Easton area Tuesday afternoon is back in custody,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,2376,202,2181,6290,38197,82971,182,139,434,2182,28,432,62056,10552,2429],"class_list":["post-325219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-easton","tag-easton-area","tag-forks-township","tag-glendon","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-northampton-county","tag-palmer-township","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-tmc","tag-west-easton","tag-williams-township","tag-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325219","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=325219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}