{"id":88517,"date":"2026-01-16T13:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88517\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T13:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T13:44:07","slug":"bomb-squad-fbi-respond-to-bethlehem-township-incident-report-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88517\/","title":{"rendered":"Bomb squad, FBI respond to Bethlehem Township incident, report says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"BUHSESDFCJDWNO4S7ZM7HBXMJQ\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/FBI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/FBI\/\">Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/a> agents, a bomb squad and police had a heavy presence Thursday evening in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Bethlehem%20Township\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleylive.com\/topic\/Bethlehem%20Township\">Bethlehem Township<\/a> neighborhood, published reports say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZAAYJHXGSBHOXN7R5ISWDLDQZQ\">Residents living near Lehigh and 12th streets received a Nixle alert shortly before 7:30 p.m. asking them to avoid the area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"JA35DALXORCHVHP65OO3BSYPCY\">\u201c(There\u2019s) no immediate danger to the public,\u201d the alert stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"5OSASAND7JG5ZLOOTLLHEXVLM4\">Shortly before 9 p.m., residents received another Nixle alert that the incident was cleared.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"D57P7ZXBORDTHDOVFHFGKR6R44\">A WFMZ-69 News broadcast reported some neighbors were stranded outside their homes for hours and not allowed to enter their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"CUYCCKAOWRHQHBJH6CILKZZKCA\">Township Police Capt. Shaun Powell and Township Police Chief Gregory Gottschall didn\u2019t immediately return requests for more information Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"UIYLE6RAEND25MPQUJDJBFZDRQ\">Property records show a 70-year-old man who lives at the property where law enforcement focused was charged Thursday evening with three counts misdemeanor making terroristic threats; three counts misdemeanor reckless endangerment; and misdemeanor simple assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Federal Bureau of Investigation agents, a bomb squad and police had a heavy presence Thursday evening in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":{"0":"post-88517","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\/88517","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=88517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}