Crime & Safety
Teens Broke Into Old Township School, Police Say
Lower Saucon Township Police say three Bethlehem Township teenagers have been charged with allegedly breaking into the former Lower Saucon Elementary School.
Three teenage Bethlehem Township neighbors were jailed Wednesday for allegedly breaking into a vacant Lower Saucon Township school.
Patrick Eaton, Brendan Kaulis and Christopher Mastronardo, all 18 and from the 4000 block of Concord Circle, are charged with burglary and criminal trespass, both felonies.
According to court records, police were called to the former Lower Saucon Elementary School, 2200 Wassergass Road, around 10:22 p.m. Wednesday when someone saw flashlights shining inside the building.
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Officers allegedly found a screen missing from one of the windows, and footprints inside.
Police said the three young men were found on the roof of the building.
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They were accompanied by five juveniles, police added, although it was not clear whether the juveniles were charged.
Eaton, Kaulis and Mastronardo were arraigned before District Judge Daniel Corpora in Easton and sent to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $10,000 bail.
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