Tag: Lehigh County

The Pennsylvania State Police are searching for a car and its driver who is wanted for exposing himself to a nine-year-old in Lehigh County Monday afternoon.

On March 11, officials said, at approximately 4:44 p.m. troopers responded to the 700 block of Lincoln Court in Lynn Township for the report of an individual who had exposed himself to children.

According to police, a nine-year-old girl, along with her younger sister and two other children, were walking their dog on Lincoln Court when an unknown older man, driving a blue Dodge Ram 1500 quad cab pick-up truck, approached the children.

As the nine-year-old went to the truck, the man opened the door, wasn’t wearing any pants and exposed himself to the child, state police said.

The driver of the Dodge is described as having a bald head with white hair and a white colored beard, police said. They believe the car is possibly a 2009-2018 Dodge Ram with chrome tubular steps and front and rear chrome bumpers.

Anyone with information in connection to this incident is asked to contact the Pennsylvania State Police Fogelsville Station at (610) 395-1438.

Police in Allentown are investigating after a man was shot to death outside a family birthday party for a 1-year-old child on Saturday.

According to police, the incident happened at about 7:48 p.m., outside a home near the intersection of South Dauphin and East Walnut streets in Allentown, when 33-year-old Miguel Dalmasi of Alburtis was shot multiple times while he was in attendance at a birthday party for a 1-year-old relative.

Officials said the incident occurred after Dalmassi was involved in a dispute outside of the home where the party was being held.

At that time, police claim, a gunman in a group of uninvited people that were trying to enter the party produced a firearm and shot Dalmasi “more than once.”

The group of uninvited individuals fled before police arrived and, officials said, Dalmasi was taken to a nearby hospital where he died of his injuries.

No arrests have yet been made, but officials said, an investigation is ongoing.

Anyone with information regarding this investigation is encouraged to contact the Allentown Police Department Criminal Investigations Division at 610-437-7721 or the Allentown Police Department Complaint Desk at 610-437-7753.

After being sentenced to serve life in prison with no possibility for parole when they pleaded guilty to murdering their parents in 1995, two Lehigh County brothers — David and Bryan Freeman — are expected back in court this week to seek a resentencing.

The chance at a new sentence for the pair comes after a 2012 court ruling found it unconstitutional to sentence someone to life behind bars if they were under the age of 18 at the time the crime was committed.

The Freeman brothers — who were 16 and 17 at the time of the slayings — pleaded guilty to murdering their parents, 54-year-old Dennis Freeman and Brenda Freeman, 48, in their Salisbury Township home in February of 1995.

Prosecutors said Bryan stabbed his mother, Brenda, and David bludgeoned their father.

Their 11-year-old brother, Erik was also fatally beaten.

A third man — Nelson Birdwell III — a cousin of the pair, was also convicted in the murders and was tried as an adult.

However, neither brother was in court on Monday morning after choosing to remain in jail cells instead of being in person when video from the crime scene was played at the Lehigh County Courthouse in Allentown.

According to a former Salisbury police chief, who was in court on Monday, he knows nothing about what the men have done in the last 29 years, but he said the crime scene was more horrific then anything he had ever witnessed — both as a police officer and solider who served in Vietnam.

Officials have said that the brothers were raised as devout Jehovah’s Witnesses but had abandoned their faith and adopted white supremacist skinhead ideology in their youth.

In the past, officials said, the brothers wore military surplus clothes and had face tattoos with the words “Sieg Heil” and “Berserker.”

After the attacks, the brothers and Birdwell fled to Michigan where they were arrested three days later.

Defense attorneys for the pair argued that despite their activity in neo nazi groups as teens, decades in jail has reformed the Feeeman brothers.

This resentencing hearing is expected to last through Friday before a judge will make a decision on any resentencing.