DA questions Lafayette’s handling of College Hill break-in as Easton police take over probe
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
Posted Mar 15, 2021
A man with a knife entered a home just after 6:30 a.m. March 5, 2021, in the 400 block of McCartney Street on Easton s College Hill, city police report.Tim Wynkoop | lehighvalleylive.com contributor
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Northampton County District Attorney Terry Houck spoke glowingly Monday morning about the investigation by Easton police into the March 5 break-in and attempted indecent assault in a College Hill residence that led to the arrest Saturday of a Bethlehem man.
Not only is Clement Swaby, 34, of the 600 block of Hayes Street, charged in the burglary and ensuing theft and assault try, but he’s “a strong person of interest for us” in the Feb. 22 break-in and theft across the street, Houck said.
DUI, not possession, more likely to trip up Pa. residents buying legal weed in N.J., authorities say
Updated Feb 24, 2021;
Posted Feb 24, 2021
A man rolls a marijuana joint March 21, 2015, as a large group gathered near the New Jersey Statehouse to show their support for legalizing marijuana, in Trenton. It took years, but legalization has finally happened.AP
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Easton residents of a certain age will regale you with tales of the years the drinking age was 18 in Phillipsburg while it was 21 at home.
They’ll recall crazed occasions crossing the free bridge in search of shots and beers and somehow making it back alive to the more conservative side of the Delaware River.
Authorities say they’re prepared if armed protesters target Northampton County Courthouse
Updated Jan 14, 2021;
Northampton County District Attorney Terry Houck knows the awful, helpless feeling.
Speaking Wednesday to lehighvalleylive.com about being prepared for the possibility of armed protest, Houck pointed to the police officer who found himself smashed against a door jam on Jan. 6 as insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol. Houck drifted back nearly 40 years to his days as a plainclothes Philadelphia police officer. The 76ers had won the NBA title and the celebration at the old John F. Kennedy Stadium emptied with a surge of humanity onto Broad Street, Houck said.