{"id":95227,"date":"2026-01-24T02:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95227\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T02:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T02:48:25","slug":"18-year-old-3-other-teens-charged-in-45000-vandalism-of-lights-in-the-parkway-allentown-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95227\/","title":{"rendered":"18-year-old, 3 other teens charged in $45,000 vandalism of &#8216;Lights in the Parkway&#8217; | Allentown Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; An 18-year-old man and three teenagers are facing felony charges following a December vandalism spree that caused roughly $45,000 in damage to the Lights in the Parkway holiday display.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Weaver, 18, of Lower Macungie, has been charged with third-degree felony counts of criminal mischief and criminal conspiracy, according to Allentown police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Three 17-year-old males, two from Salisbury Township and one from Lower Macungie, have also been charged with criminal mischief and criminal conspiracy, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The Allentown Police Department announced the arrests Friday following an investigation into the destruction that occurred between the evening of Dec. 13 and the morning of Dec. 14, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation consisted of interviews and evidence review that revealed the vandalism was committed by four people working together.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say multiple light fixtures, a portable toilet, and other equipment within Lehigh Parkway were extensively damaged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; An 18-year-old man and three teenagers are facing felony charges following a December vandalism spree&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,232,153,155,154,31],"class_list":["post-95227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown-area","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95227","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=95227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}