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Tom Shortell/LehighValleyNews.comLehigh County District Attorney Gavin Holihan announced more than 100 additional criminal charges Wednesday against County Commissioner Zachary Cole-Borghi. -
Screenshot/YouTube/Lehigh County Board of Commissioners MeetingLengthy criminal complaints contained more than 150 pages of transcripts of messages allegedly sent between Cole-Borghi and cooperating sources for the prosecution. Those messages show negotiations on the price of drugs, including marijuana/THC products and cocaine, as well as arranging for delivery and purchase.
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Police are investigating after a 37-year-old man was found dead on the 1400 block of Gaskill Avenue in Salisbury Township. -
Sammy Sasso, a former Nazareth Area High School state wrestling champion, is charged with possessing unlicensed guns and a controlled substance after police said they stopped the car he was driving because of an expired registration.
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Witness said Jose Vladimir Jerez, 24, of Allentown, was driving erratically while trying to pass another car when he crashed his car into a utility pole in October. A 20-year-old passenger, Ezequiel Hernandez-Cartagena, died less than 90 minutes later.
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A former Easton Area High School resource officer who pleaded guilty to sending a sexually explicit image of himself to a 16-year-old female student in 2024 was sentenced to 9-to-24 months in Northampton County Prison, it was announced on Wednesday.
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Said Bethlehem Police Chief Michelle Kott, “It’s not used for enforcement. It’s just a means, similar to the news media, of being able to bring up that camera and check the traffic conditions, or if there's an accident, it could be utilized for investigative purposes.”
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Angel Martinez-Velez, 25, of Allentown, was shot and killed June 1, 2024, on the basketball court at Allentown's Fountain Park.
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Allentown police were called just before 2 a.m. Sunday to a home in the 100 block of Pine Street, where officers found a girl suffering from a gunshot wound to the face, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney's Office.
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Police were called to a South Side neighborhood just before 11:30 p.m. on Saturday for a report of a shooting. All of the wounded are expected to survive, police said.
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John Gehrmann, stepfather of Palmer teen Enci "Aubrey" Wu, has been charged with illegally recording phone conversations with authorities and other individuals while he was looking into the girl's disappearance.
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Mayor Matt Tuerk called on the county's president judge to “issue a public and unambiguous policy” banning ICE agents from county courthouses, a move he said would “be a major step in restoring trust in government and faith in its fairness.”
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State Police are investigating a hit-and-run that occurred on the ramp from Route 22 eastbound in Hanover Township. They discovered a man dead, but still are working to determine how he died.
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Northampton County's district attorney will not press charges in a fatal single-vehicle motorcycle crash, officials announced Tuesday.
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The patrols — on Broadway or on side streets just off Broadway — came during the opening weekend of Musikfest in Bethlehem.
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Lehigh County Coroner Dan Buglio said toxicology testing showed a significant level of illicit controlled substances in Timothy Vanbilliard’s system, including methamphetamine, when he died May 11, 2025.
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Attorney Ronnie Louis Creazzo has been charged in connection to threats made against the Office of Disciplinary Counsel following their attempts to serve him at his Bushkill Township home in 2024.
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Two men, including one at-large, have been charged with attempted homicide and other offenses in the shooting of six individuals in Easton this month.
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Phillip Rishel alleges an Allentown cop drove his SUV at him after a confrontation over Rishel's filming of officers at their substation at Tenth and Hamilton Streets. He was later charged with loitering.
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Police tried to stop Thomas Kravitz's vehicle as it arrived at the woman’s home, but he drove away, hitting an Allentown police car, police said.
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The United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley will absorb the Lehigh Valley Justice Institute's research staff and operations, the nonprofits announced Thursday.
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Judge Steven Hippler ordered Bryan Kohberger to serve life in prison without parole for killing four University of Idaho students. Friends and relatives delivered powerful statements of love, anguish and condemnation at the sentencing hearing Wednesday.
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Allentown police allege Adam Makowka, 27, used a fire escape to enter Jerkera Battle's apartment and shot her to death with an AR-15. Makowka also is charged with trying to kill another man in the apartment.
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Tamir Johnson, 35, got out of his car and swung a bat, hitting the other driver’s door. That driver fired one shot that struck Johnson, authorities said.
