Published December 12. 2025 03:01PM<\/p>\n
State police at the Bethlehem barracks reported the following incidents:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Police were called to a retail theft at 7:51 a.m. Oct. 13 at the Sunoco gas station on Route 100, Heidelberg Township.<\/p>\n
They said it was reported that five cartons of vape smoking devices worth $109.50 were stolen the previous day.<\/p>\n
\u2022 A 53-year-old Slatington woman had $27,927.27 stolen from her in a theft case that occurred on Fury Court, Washington Township, that police are investigating.<\/p>\n
She reported the incident at 4:53 p.m. Nov. 10, telling police an unknown actor remotely accessed her desktop computer. A customer service number appeared on her screen. She said she called the number and was informed that she had been hacked and was now involved in an overseas fraud case.<\/p>\n
The actor told the woman that her bank account was compromised and that $27,927.27 was being used for child pornography. At the actor\u2019s instructions, the woman went to the Coplay Mini-Mart, withdrew the money and deposited it in a Coinbase machine.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Police were called to a natural death at 6:12 a.m. Nov. 30 on Main Street in Washington Township.<\/p>\n
They said a 65-year-old man from Emerald was discovered dead in his residence by his wife and daughter.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Christopher Ross, 37, of Germansville, is facing charges of driving under the influence of alcohol after police made a traffic stop at 5:31 p.m. Oct. 15.<\/p>\n
He was stopped in a 2011 Lincoln Continental at the intersection of Heidelberg Heights and Meadowview roads, Heidelberg Township, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published December 12. 2025 03:01PM State police at the Bethlehem barracks reported the following incidents: \u2022 Police were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-59728","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59728","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=59728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}