{"id":95367,"date":"2026-01-24T06:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95367\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T06:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T06:35:08","slug":"lower-macungie-man-3-minors-charged-after-lights-in-the-parkway-vandalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/95367\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Macungie man, 3 minors charged after Lights in the Parkway vandalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Four people face criminal charges in <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.lehighvalleynews.com\/criminal-justice\/100-000-in-damages-at-lights-in-the-parkway-display-to-reopen-to-cars-tuesday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the vandalization of the city\u2019s signature Lights at the Parkway<\/a> display last month.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Weaver, 19, of Lower Macungie, was charged Friday with two felony counts of criminal mischief, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Three unidentified juveniles also face criminal mischief charges, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver was arraigned and released on $10,000 bail, according to a release.<\/p>\n<p>    City officials on Dec. 15 announced extensive damage to the holiday lights display and park facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement officials<\/p>\n<p>City officials on Dec. 15 announced extensive damage to the holiday lights display and park facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Vandals pushed portable toilets into the Little Lehigh Creek, bent light poles and posts, and broke light bulbs throughout the display area. <\/p>\n<p>Restroom facilities in the park also were damaged, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk said an initial estimate showed vandals caused at least $100,000 in damages, though most of the display remained in good shape.<\/p>\n<p>Total damages announced Friday were valued at $46,000, according to the District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver and the three juveniles were seen on surveillance footage vandalizing the display, according to authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Weaver is due back in court next month for a preliminary hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. \u2014 Four people face criminal charges in the vandalization of the city\u2019s signature Lights at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,715,34471,1816,5134],"class_list":["post-95367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-police","tag-allentown-vandalism","tag-lehigh-county-district-attorney","tag-lights-in-the-parkway"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95367","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=95367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}