{"id":66631,"date":"2025-12-21T07:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66631\/"},"modified":"2025-12-21T07:11:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T07:11:11","slug":"lehigh-valley-attorney-gets-prison-time-for-threatening-investigator-contempt-of-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66631\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley attorney gets prison time for threatening investigator, contempt of court"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Easton attorney was sentenced earlier this month to 18 to 52 months in state prison for threatening a state investigator<\/a> and for contempt of court.<\/p>\n

Attorney Ronnie Creazzo, 61, of Bushkill Township, sent a threatening email after an investigator from the disciplinary counsel\u2019s office<\/a> showed up at his home on June 21, 2024, according to a criminal complaint.<\/p>\n

Court records say Creazzo was convicted of all counts<\/a> filed against him: retaliation against a witness, criminal use of a communication facility, obstruction of the administration of law, making terroristic threats, harassment, and making threats to influence a judicial process.<\/p>\n

Senior Judge William P. Mahon of Chester County presided over the trial in July.<\/p>\n

He found Creazzo in contempt of court three separate times during court proceedings, according to Northampton County First Assistant District Attorney Robert Eyer. Online court records don\u2019t give details on what Creazzo did to be found in contempt.<\/p>\n

Defense attorney Erv McLain handled the trial for Creazzo. Court records say Creazzo is now serving as his own attorney. He couldn\u2019t be reached for comment because he\u2019s in prison.<\/p>\n

Creazzo was sentenced Dec. 5 to 15 to 46 months in state prison followed by four years of consecutive probation on the original charges, plus an additional three to six months for the findings of contempt.<\/p>\n

Court records say the state investigator was unable to serve Creazzo a notice to plead after Creazzo yelled an expletive and told the investigator to get off his property \u201cbefore there is a problem.\u201d The investigator feared for his safety and left.<\/p>\n

Five minutes later, Creazzo sent a threatening and profane email to an attorney with the disciplinary counsel. Creazzo sent the same email about 25 minutes later.<\/p>\n

Then he sent a third email saying, \u201cTrespassers are not welcome. You have my office address. This was extremely uncalled for. That was outrageous and extremely unprofessional and your superior will be notified,\u201d according to the complaint.<\/p>\n

Creazzo\u2019s license to practice law was suspended<\/a> Dec. 31. A hearing to determine whether his license will be revoked is scheduled for Jan. 5.<\/p>\n

The state disciplinary board reviews complaints made against Pennsylvania attorneys by clients. Those cases are investigated by the disciplinary counsel\u2019s office. It\u2019s unclear why the state was investigating Creazzo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Easton attorney was sentenced earlier this month to 18 to 52 months in state prison for threatening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-66631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66631","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=66631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}