{"id":84926,"date":"2026-01-12T21:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84926\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T21:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T21:11:11","slug":"easton-man-faces-charges-after-standoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/84926\/","title":{"rendered":"Easton man faces charges after standoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested Sunday night after an hours-long standoff in Easton.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called about 4:30 p.m. to the 300 block of West St. Joseph\u2019s Street for a report of an assault, according to a city police news release. The suspect, 34-year-old Sean West, fled into the home and refused to come out, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said West threatened officers and indicated that he had a handgun. He also barricaded the doors and windows, police added.<\/p>\n<p>A special response unit and crisis negotiation team responded, and the standoff continued for five hours. The special response team entered the home and found West hiding in a closet on the second floor, police said.<\/p>\n<p>West faces charges of simple assault, resisting arrest, making terroristic threats, harassment, unlawful restraint and burglary. He will be arraigned Monday morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested Sunday night after an hours-long standoff in Easton. Officers were called about 4:30 p.m.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,202,2181,6290,182,139,434,28,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-84926","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","11":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-easton","13":"tag-easton-area","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-northampton-county","17":"tag-pennsylvania","18":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84926","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=84926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}