{"id":51381,"date":"2025-12-03T20:10:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51381\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T20:10:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T20:10:30","slug":"police-man-allegedly-harassed-women-with-sex-toy-at-saucon-valley-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/51381\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Man allegedly harassed women with sex toy at Saucon Valley mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"articleLabel__link\" class=\"articleLabel__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/lehigh-county\/\" title=\"Navigate to Lehigh County\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lehigh County<\/a>Updated: Dec. 03, 2025, 2:33 p.m.|Published: Dec. 03, 2025, 2:33 p.m.<img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\" alt=\"Police: Drunk driver charged after harassing women at Saucon Valley mall\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/NNZ6KPV7XFAWTKFX2ORS6PHJPM.JPG\"  \/>Upper Saucon Township police officers responded Monday, Dec. 1, 2025, to the Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley after receiving multiple complaints about a man&#8217;s lewd behavior in the parking lot.Lehighvalleylive.com\/The Express-Times File Photo<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EX5CYGI7PFH4VCV52DJREQ6ILI\">An Easton-area man faces charges after he allegedly harassed several female victims at an area mall by waving a sex toy at them from a vehicle, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"EUL74EE5QJDA5AWWPZWFPOHNBQ\">Upper Saucon Township police say they responded to multiple calls about the harassment around 5 p.m. Monday at the Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley, 3060 Center Valley Parkway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UJC3D7O4WVEEHK3FAA3MDM7TBQ\">\u201cUpon arrival, <a href=\"https:\/\/lehigh.crimewatchpa.com\/uppersauconpd\/214264\/arrests\/barillas-pinto-melvin-g-3802c-and-6-additional-charges\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/lehigh.crimewatchpa.com\/uppersauconpd\/214264\/arrests\/barillas-pinto-melvin-g-3802c-and-6-additional-charges\">officers were directed to the male in his vehicle traveling through the parking lot<\/a>,\u201d police wrote in a statement on their Crimewatchpa.com page. \u201cUpon contacting the male suspect, he was determined to be under the influence of alcohol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7NPHAN3UDREBXIR37VTOPL7HXU\">Police said they charged the 41-year-old suspect with driving under the influence of alcohol, open lewdness, harassment, public drunkenness and disorderly conduct.<\/p>\n<p>Kurt Bresswein is a supervising reporter for lehighvalleylive.com and The Express-Times. He covers outdoors and breaking news. A full-time staff member since 2001 after a news internship in Allentown and his&#8230; more<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh CountyUpdated: Dec. 03, 2025, 2:33 p.m.|Published: Dec. 03, 2025, 2:33 p.m.Upper Saucon Township police officers responded Monday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,591],"class_list":{"0":"post-51381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news","11":"tag-merlinmigration2014"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51381","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=51381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}