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Lehigh Valley Police Officer Attacked While Responding To Break-In Call, Report Says Lehigh Valley Police Officer Attacked While Responding To Break-In Call, Report Says
Lehigh Valley Police Officer Attacked While Responding To Break-In Call, Report Says A Lehigh Valley police officer was attacked while responding to a break-in call last week, LehighValleyLive reports. Allentown resident Isaiah Dion Mosley, 29, tried to break through the door of an apartment on the 2300 block of Main Street in Northampton Borough around 3 p.m. Friday, the outlet said citing court records. He then lunged at responding Officer Geoffrey Perry, punching him in the head and choking him, the report said. Mosley later told two other responding officers that he had the right to resist an arrest he considered to be “unlawful,” the report says. Perry was taken …

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by Valerie Musson
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Drug Deal At Wind Creek Casino Turns To Armed Robbery Drug Deal At Wind Creek Casino Turns To Armed Robbery
Drug Deal At Wind Creek Casino Turns To Armed Robbery A 28-year-old Monroe County man is facing charges after a drug deal at Wind Creek Casino in Bethlehem turned into an armed robbery in the parking lot, reports say. Brandon L. Pearsall-McNealy, of East Stroudsburg, met a person at the casino on Wind Creek Boulevard Friday morning and agreed to buy marijuana, PennLive reports citing city police. When they walked to a car in a nearby parking lot around 7:30 a.m., Pearsall-McNealy pointed a gun at the dealer and stole an ounce of marijuana and $270, the news outlet says. The person robbed reportedly told area police that Pearsall-McNealy …

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by Nicole Acosta
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Ex-Pennsylvania HS Teacher Accused Of Year-Long Sexual Contact With Student Ex-Pennsylvania HS Teacher Accused Of Year-Long Sexual Contact With Student
Ex-Pennsylvania HS Teacher Accused Of Year-Long Sexual Contact With Student A Lehigh Valley man was working as a high school teacher when he had sex with a 17-year-old student numerous times over the course of more than a year, state police charged. Eric Michael Hahn, of South Whitehall Township, engaged in sexual activity with a 17-year-old girl while working as a teacher at Bangor Area High School starting in October 2019, state police said. Hahn, 38, engaged in the activity both in and outside of school, police said. Hahn was charged Thursday with intercourse/sexual contact with a student and corruption of minors, both third-degree felonies. He was being held …

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by Valerie Musson
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Four Separate Shootings, 5 Arrests: Paterson Detectives Crack Cases With Help From Friends Four Separate Shootings, 5 Arrests: Paterson Detectives Crack Cases With Help From Friends
Four Separate Shootings, 5 Arrests: Paterson Detectives Crack Cases With Help From Friends Investigators have been on a roll in Paterson, solving several shootings – a few of them months old -- with a little help from their law enforcement colleagues. The latest accused shooter, Twyleak Sexton, 20, was taken into custody near his home in Easton, PA after a city officer there found an attempted murder warrant out of Passaic County during a routine computer check. Sexton opened fire in the first block of North 2nd Street and Haledon Avenue in Paterson on Sept. 17in a dispute between two families – one from Easton, the other from Paterson, authorities said. A 23-year-old male Pater…

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by Jerry DeMarco