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'Large-Scale' Burglary Ring Targeted Homes In Lehigh Valley And Beyond, DA Says 'Large-Scale' Burglary Ring Targeted Homes In Lehigh Valley And Beyond, DA Says
'Large-Scale' Burglary Ring Targeted Homes In Lehigh Valley And Beyond, DA Says Half a dozen people are charged in connection with a "large-scale" home burglary scheme, according to the Lehigh County District Attorney's Office.  At a press conference on Friday, April 26, prosecutors and law enforcement said an organized ring of thieves stole more than $160,000 in goods from homes in Lehigh, Berks and Northampton counties.  They also targeted at least one home in Warren Township, New Jersey, authorities said.  Beginning in 2019, a team of state and local police agencies began investigating burglaries and attempted burglaries in Allentown, Bethl…

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by Mac Bullock
Police & Fire
Police Investigate Home Invasion In Lehigh Valley Police Investigate Home Invasion In Lehigh Valley
Police Investigate Home Invasion In Lehigh Valley Authorities are searching for the pair of men who they say staged a home invasion in Lehigh County last week.  It happened in Salisbury around 9 p.m. on Thursday, June 8, said township police in a release. The two suspects made their way into a home on the 3000 block of Fairfield Drive and "began to rummage through belongings," investigators wrote.  Police said when the homeowners noticed the strangers, they screamed and the men fled. The pair sped off in a newer model Jeep Wagoneer, which was later found abandoned "a short distance from the incident," according to detectives.&nbs…

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by Mac Bullock
Obituaries
Hunterdon County Father, Lehigh Valley Hospital Radiology Tech John Hopkins Dies, 36 Hunterdon County Father, Lehigh Valley Hospital Radiology Tech John Hopkins Dies, 36
Hunterdon County Father, Lehigh Valley Hospital Radiology Tech John Hopkins Dies, 36 Hunterdon County father and Lehigh Valley Hospital worker John Paul Hopkins died Feb. 7 at the age of 36. Hopkins graduated from Phillipsburg High School and completed an Associates in Applied Science degree in Radiography at Northampton Community College, his obituary says. Hopkins worked as a radiology technician at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Salisbury, PA and lived in Clinton at the time of his death, his memorial says. More than $3,100 had been raised as of Thursday morning on a GoFundMe for Hopkins’ funeral expenses. “John was loved by many in the community including his family,” the …

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by Valerie Musson