Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Conversations with neighbors describing behavior of accused lead police to believe there may be more victims out there.
A South Bethlehem man charged last week with sexually assaulting a 4-year-old child in a back yard might have other victims, the Bethlehem Police Department said Tuesday. The department, in a blog post, put out a call for parents of victims to step forward “so that the proper services can be made available to you and your child.” Donald B. Pembleton, 56, was allegedly spotted Friday afternoon by an eyewitness who said she was observing him “assaulting a small child in the rear yard of a residence in the 500 block of Thomas Street,” police said. Pembleton, who is positive for hepatitis C, is facing multiple charges including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse with a child, aggravated indecent assault/victim under 13, indecent assault/…
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013
New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan 'denied that he was speeding but did not deny causing the accident' at Third and Wyandotte streets in South Bethlehem.
New York Jets head football coach Rex Ryan told Bethlehem police he was trying “to beat the light” when he apparently caused a minor three-car crash in south Bethlehem during the evening rush hour eight days ago, Bethlehem Police said. The accident occurred at the intersection of Wyandotte and W. Third streets, just south of the Hill-to-Hill Bridge on Jan. 14 at 6:13 p.m. One eyewitness and the driver of one of the other two cars in the crash told police they saw a 2013 red Ford Mustang, which Ryan was driving, go through a red light as it traveled west along W. Third Street, police said. Though police said the investigation into the accident is not complete, the partially redacted accident report city officials released Tuesday said Ryan…
Saturday, December 8, 2012
A candlelight vigil for peace was held on a Bethlehem street where a gun battle last weekend outside a Puerto Rican club left one woman dead and five others hurt.
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
More than 50 people stood in a parking lot along E. Third Street in South Bethlehem Friday night to hold a candlelight vigil for peace, to speak out against gun violence on city streets and to pray for the young woman who was gunned down a few feet away six nights ago. “We need to start healing as a community,” said Guillermo Lopez, a longtime Bethlehem community activist and one of the event’s organizers. “Yolanda Morales died much too young.” Bethlehem Police on Friday charged Rene Figueroa, 32, of Allentown, with homicide in the death of Morales, a 23-year-old from Bethlehem. Police also charged Javier Rivera-Alvarado, 38, also of Allentown, who is also accused of firing a gun during the melee. An argument between two men inside the …
Rene Figueroa, 32, is charged with killing Yolanda Morales. Javier Rivera-Alvarado, 38, is charged with firing multiple shots in deadly, chaotic melee.
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
As shots rang out in a South Bethlehem parking lot early Sunday, Yolanda Morales put herself between one of two gunmen and his apparent intended target, her boyfriend Angel Figueroa. So Rene Figueroa, who is not related to Angel, shot Morales once in the chest before firing at Angel Figueroa, according to Bethlehem Police. On Friday, as he lay in the intensive care unit of St. Luke’s University Hospital in Fountain Hill, Rene Figueroa was arraigned on a charge of criminal homicide in Morales’ death. Rene Figueroa, 32, of 936 W. Gordon St., Allentown, also faces numerous other felony counts – including receiving stolen property – stemming from the bloody gun battle that took place along E. Third Street last weekend. The gun Rene Figueroa …
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Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Yolanda Morales, 23, followed confrontation out onto E. Third Street before she was hit by gunshot. Police trying to sort out who is responsible for Bethlehem woman's death.
A chaotic and deadly gun battle on E. Third Street apparently began with a minor confrontation between two groups of people who did not know each other before Saturday night, according to Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli. By the time it ended, about 30 bullets had been fired, a young woman was dead and five men were wounded – one perhaps seriously enough to be paralyzed, according to the DA, who held a news conference Monday to explain what law enforcement knows about the shootout outside of the Puerto Rican Beneficial Society that claimed the life of Yolanda Morales. Morales, 23, of 1249 Randolf Road, Bethlehem, died of a gunshot wound to her body, according to Lehigh County Coroner Scott M. Grim, who ruled the …
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9:34 am on Monday, May 6, 2013
Where was the mother of this precious 4 year old while the scumbag, lowlife was raping? I can't imagine leaving a 4 year old in a yard alone. As for the scumbag pos, he needs to be put to death. Bad enough to sexually assault small children, but to also attack them when he has heatitus C, that is attempted murder in my book. Castration should be mandatory prior to the death sentence. I wonder how… more ›