{"id":63691,"date":"2025-12-17T21:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/63691\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T21:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T21:48:08","slug":"amazon-driver-accused-of-fatally-striking-man-with-delivery-truck-in-allentown-arrested-in-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/63691\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon driver accused of fatally striking man with delivery truck in Allentown arrested in Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Amazon driver wanted in a fatal hit-and-run in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USMS_Philly\/status\/2001299400308478020\/photo\/1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Allentown in November was arrested in Philadelphia<\/a> Wednesday, U.S. Marshals said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Troy Johnson, 30, was wanted by the Allentown Police Department in connection with intentionally striking a 29-year-old man with his Amazon delivery truck on the 5400 block of Norfolk Street after an argument on Nov. 21, according to U.S. Marshals. The 29-year-old man died after the hit-and-run as a result of his injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Johnson has been charged with third-degree murder. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force in Philadelphia and Allentown took Johnson into custody at about 7:30 a.m. Wednesday at a family member&#8217;s home in Southwest Philly. He was taken into custody without incident and taken to Lehigh County for processing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;While nothing can undo the harm that was done to the Hernandez family, I hope this arrest brings a measure of closure to the family,&#8221; Robert Clark, the supervisory deputy U.S. Marshal for the Eastern Pennsylvania Violent Crime Fugitive Task Force, said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Amazon driver wanted in a fatal hit-and-run in Allentown in November was arrested in Philadelphia Wednesday, U.S.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63692,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[119,1896,433,157,69,71,70,2653],"class_list":{"0":"post-63691","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-amazon","10":"tag-lehigh-county","11":"tag-lehigh-valley","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-southwest-philadelphia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63691","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=63691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}