Crime & Safety

Prisoner Busts Sprinkler Head, Floods Cell, Police Say

Woman arrested on drunken driving charge went into a tirade when brought to a City Hall holding cell, police said.

A Bethlehem woman who was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving later destroyed a sprinkler head inside a City Hall holding cell, which caused the basement cellblock to flood, police said.

Bethlehem police are asking Adianez Pagan-Carmona, 36, of 1110 Dover Lane, to pay more than $5,000 in restitution for the damage she allegedly caused to the prison cellblock, according to court papers.

Pagan-Carmona was arrested after 3:20 a.m. Sunday when a patrol officer stopped the silver Chevrolet Blazer she was driving along E. Third Street in South Bethlehem.

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The arresting officer, Louis Csaszar, wrote in the affidavit of probable cause that he observed the truck cross over the double yellow lines and then stop at a steady green signal.

Pagan-Carmona “reeked of an alcoholic beverage, slurred her speech” and her eyes were bloodshot and glassy during the traffic stop, Csaszar wrote. When the officer asked her to step out of the vehicle so that he could conduct a field sobriety test, she did and “began to dance in the middle of the street,” the affidavit said.

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After she was processed at the Northampton County DUI center, Pagan-Carmona was taken to the Bethlehem Police Department so that she could be held “until she sobered up,” the affidavit said.

But when officers tried to place her in a cell, Pagan-Carmona “began to engage in a tirade,” Csaszar wrote. She “was cursing at officers” and “acted out,” the affidavit said.

As Csaszar left the cellblock, he was told by the house sergeant that Pagan-Carmona had broken the sprinkler head in her cell, he wrote. “The fire alarm was activated and the cellblock began to fill with water,” the affidavit said.

Pagan-Carmona was charged with institutional vandalism and criminal mischief/fire apparatus, both felonies; injuring or tampering with fire apparatus, disorderly conduct, drunken driving and public drunkenness.

She was arraigned before on-duty District Judge Joseph Barner of Lower Nazareth Township and committed to Northampton County Prison in lieu of $5,000 bail.


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