A Bethlehem teenager charged with trying to rape and murder a Lehigh University student is mentally ill and should not be tried as an adult, his defense attorney said.
The primary election winners for the Lehigh Valley’s district judge seats
Updated 12:10 AM;
Judicial candidates in Pennsylvania can cross-file, allowing them to appear on both parties’ ballots.
Those that won on both ballots in Tuesday’s primary election are virtually assured a win in November’s general election, barring a successful write-in or third-party candidacy. Those who only won on one party’s ballot will face off in the Nov. 2 election against the winner on the other party’s ballot to decide who gets the seat.
District judges handle preliminary arraignments and preliminary hearings in criminal cases to determine if the cases will move on to county court, as well as landlord-tenant disputes, traffic offenses and civil actions where the amount claimed does not exceed $12,000.
2 arrested in Bethlehem drug dealing probe, police say
Updated Apr 30, 2021;
A man and a woman were arrested early Thursday after Bethlehem police served a search warrant on the 600 block of Atlantic Street and recovered cocaine, marijuana, drug paraphernalia and cash, police Capt. Timothy Cooper said in a news release.
Daniel Ortiz, 24, and Shantika Briley, 36, were charged with conspiracy to possess drugs with the intent to deliver, possession of a controlled substance (two counts) and possession of drug paraphernalia, Cooper said.
The drugs recovered were in a “distributable amount”, Cooper said.
Ortiz and Briley were arraigned before District Judge Nancy Matos Gonzalez, who set Ortiz’s bail at $100,000 and Briley’s at $30,000, which was later awarded a 10% option, records show. Their preliminary hearings are tentatively scheduled for May 11 in Matos Gonzalez’s court in South Bethlehem.
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Lehigh student assaults 4 cops taking him from hotel to mental health evaluation, court papers say
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
A 28-year-old Lehigh University graduate student “acting erratically” Sunday night in the Comfort Suites in the 100 block of West Third Street in Bethlehem assaulted three police officers and a sergeant who were escorting him to a voluntary mental health evaluation, court papers say.
Kendra Beazer, of the 800 block of Wyandotte Street, was arraigned early Monday before District Judge Nancy Matos Gonzalez on charges of aggravated assault, disarming a law enforcement officer, flight to avoid apprehension, resisting arrest, simple assault and harassment, city police said.