{"id":3405,"date":"2025-10-16T05:35:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3405\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T05:35:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:35:07","slug":"wilson-borough-teen-wanted-in-shooting-now-faces-charges-in-slate-belt-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/3405\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson Borough teen wanted in shooting now faces charges in Slate Belt assault"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 19-year-old man wanted in connection with gunfire near his Wilson Borough home<\/a> now faces charges in a separate Northampton County incident.<\/p>\n

Slate Belt Regional police on Friday filed misdemeanor terroristic threats and simple assault charges against Frandy M. Almanzar in an incident Sept. 26 in Pen Argyl.<\/p>\n

Almanzar also is wanted by Wilson police on felony charges from a domestic violence incident followed by the shooting incident, both of which occurred Oct. 4, according to court records.<\/p>\n

Those incidents and the Pen Argyl incident do not appear to be related, Wilson Borough police Chief Chris Meehan told lehighvalleylive.com on Monday. <\/p>\n

The Slate Belt police department responded to the Pen Argyl incident about 9:15 p.m. in the 600 block of Pennsylvania Avenue. Almanzar is accused of assaulting a male victim in the home \u201cand pointing a gun with a blue laser at him,\u201d according to court records outlining probable cause to arrest him. <\/p>\n

Slate Belt police asked anyone with information on Almanzar\u2019s whereabouts to contact investigators at 610-759-8517, Ext. 6132, or to submit a tip via the department\u2019s Crimewatch page<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In the Wilson gunfire incident eight days later, Almanzar is accused of firing shots at a vehicle that hit multiple homes about 4:30 p.m. Oct. 4 in the area of his home in the 2000 block of Ferry Street. Several children were riding bicycles at the time in the area, police said. No one was reported injured. <\/p>\n

Police identified the male occupants of the vehicle that was targeted and learned one of their friends and Almanzar had been \u201chaving issues,\u201d court records state.<\/p>\n

Wilson police earlier on the afternoon of Oct. 4 responded to Almanzar\u2019s home for a domestic assault in which he had punched his brother and hit him with a hammer he had taken from his mother, which she was using to try to stop their altercation, according to court records. Almanzar fled from an officer who spotted him after the initial assault, police said.<\/p>\n

Almanzar faces numerous felony and misdemeanor charges in the Wilson incidents, including aggravated assault, discharge of a firearm into an occupied structure and 15 counts of reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n

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