Bethlehem Woman Charged with Hindering Arrest

A woman in the Marvine-Pembroke section of the city was jailed on multiple felony charges after she allegedly tried to prevent law enforcement from apprehending a fugitive in her home Friday, according to court records.

According to an arrest affidavit:

Northampton County Sheriff’s deputies knocked on the door at 1205 Woodbine St. at 6:30 a.m. in search of Kenneth Edwards. But the home’s resident, Melisha Maxine Adamu, 25, denied that Edwards was in the house multiple times, after police showed her a picture.

Adamu also denied deputies entry into the home and blocked the doorway into the house. But it wasn’t long before other deputies spotted Edwards looking out of a second floor bedroom window and later on the roof of the home.

Deputies forced their way into the home and ultimately dragged Edwards out from under a bed where he was hiding. The bedroom where they found him was across a hallway where Adamu’s 5-year-old son slept.

Adamu was charged with two counts of hindering apprehension and one count each of obstruction of law enforcement and endangering the welfare of a child.

She was arraigned before and committed to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bail.