Crime & Safety
OMG PD: Woman Had Crack in Bra, Cash in Panties, Police Say
Here's a round-up of unusual police news from the Lehigh Valley.
A Wilson borough woman allegedly sold crack cocaine to a confidential police informant Tuesday afternoon at the T.G.I. Friday’s restaurant in the Southmont Shopping Center, Bethlehem Township police said.
: A New Street man risked two homes and eight lives when—in a misguided effort to get rid of his garbage—he set fire to 30 pizza boxes and a dried-out Christmas tree early Easter morning, Bethlehem police said. Christian Victor Duarte, 30, had trouble getting the fire started at first, so he added gasoline, police said.
: A Lehighton man is accused of forging and cashing a $250 check of a Nazareth resident who allowed him to live in his house after he said he had nowhere to go.
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: A visiting nurse's aide has been charged with stealing $408 from a patient’s home on Weyhill Circle in Lower Saucon Township, according to court papers.
: 19-year-old didn't turn in the mother of his child in the weeks after he filed a protection from abuse order against her, police say. He married her. Now he faces felony charges.
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: A Lower Macungie man became so upset over a neighbor having their shared driveway sealed that he waved a handgun at the neighbor and two workers from a second-floor window of his home, according to court records.
: A Bethlehem man allegedly picked up his girlfriend and threw her on the floor, smashed a video game drum set on her back and threatened to throw a pot of boiling water on her, police said.
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