{"id":88890,"date":"2026-01-16T21:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88890\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T21:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T21:34:11","slug":"man-charged-after-allentown-drug-raid-nets-fentanyl-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/88890\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged after Allentown drug raid nets fentanyl, cash"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Allentown <\/a>man is jailed on drug charges after investigators said they seized fentanyl, crack cocaine, a handgun and thousands in cash following a raid on a city home.<\/p>\n

Alexis Rivera, 22, is charged with two counts felony possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance; one count misdemeanor possession of a controlled substance; and one count misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia.<\/p>\n

Rivera was arraigned Thursday afternoon before District Judge Rashid Santiago, who set bail at $150,000. In lieu of bail, he was taken to the Lehigh County Jail.<\/p>\n

Court records did not immediately show any attorney information for Rivera.<\/p>\n

Detectives with Allentown Police Department\u2019s Vice and Intelligence Unit, along with members of the department\u2019s Emergency Response Team and uniformed patrol officers, traveled to a home in the 2100 block of West Liberty Street just after 6 a.m. Thursday. They obtained and executed a search warrant.<\/p>\n

Investigators seized a 9mm handgun with magazines and ammunition; approximately 169 grams of fentanyl; approximately 100 grams of crack cocaine, and $13,289 in cash. Also found were packaging materials and a money counter, police said.<\/p>\n

Police did not specify the street value of the drugs or if Rivera was the focus of the investigation.<\/p>\n

Rivera is due back in court for a preliminary hearing tentatively scheduled for 9:30 a.m. Jan. 23 before Santiago. A judge will then determine if there\u2019s sufficient evidence to send the case toward trial at the Lehigh County Court of Common Pleas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Allentown man is jailed on drug charges after investigators said they seized fentanyl, crack cocaine, a handgun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88891,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-88890","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\/88890","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=88890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}