Crime & Safety

Woman Pushed Out of Moving Car by her Brother

Quan Taylor of Wilson charged; sister, Tasha, not seriously hurt; more from the BPD this weekend.

A Wilson man was arrested on multiple charges after he allegedly pushed his sister out of a moving car she was driving on W. Broad Street in Bethlehem early Saturday morning, city police said.

The sister, Tasha Taylor, 22, of Allentown, was taken to in Fountain Hill to be treated for minor injuries, police said.

Quan Taylor, 24, of 1935 Fairview Ave., Wilson, was charged with aggravated assault, simple assault, reckless endangerment and driving without a license.

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The dispute started as the siblings left a bar and argued over who would drive home, said Bethlehem Police Det. Sgt. Jeremy Alleshouse. The argument continued in the car, until Quan Taylor managed to push Tasha Taylor out of the car at Eighth Avenue and W. Broad St. Quan Taylor then drove off, leaving his sister in the street.

The car was not moving quickly, if at all, Alleshouse said. Tasha Taylor walked away from the scene and several blocks away to a Bethlehem Fire Department Station at 521 W. Broad St., where firefighters called police.

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South Whitehall Man, DUI, Eludes Police Commissioner

A South Whitehall Township man is in a heap of trouble after he led Bethlehem police on a chase from south Bethlehem up Route 378 after allegedly failing to obey an order to stop from the city’s police commissioner himself early Friday morning.

When he arrived at his home at 2331 Wehr Mill Road, Matthew Blose, 21, had Pennsylvania State Police waiting for him. There they allegedly found him with an open beverage container and a small amount of marijuana in his car, police said.

The trouble for Blose started at nearly 2:30 a.m. Friday morning when he was observed making an erratic driving maneuver at the corner of Third and Webster streets in the Southside, nearly striking a police bicycle officer in the process, police said.

Police Commissioner Stuart Bedics, who happened to be on the scene, then gave Blose an order to stop, which the suspect deliberately disobeyed and ignored, police said. Blose then was stopped by police, briefly, at Third and New streets, before he drove off again, this time up Route 378, police said.

Marked police cruisers attempted to stop Blose to no avail as he was last seen on Airport Road.

Blose was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, fleeing and eluding police, possession of a small amount of marijuana, reckless driving, careless driving and numerous other driving related charges.

 

Stefko Boulevard Subway Robbed by man with Threatening Note

A man handed a Subway clerk a note indicating that he was armed and was subsequently handed cash and ran off on Sunday night, Bethlehem police said.

The robbery at the sandwich shop at 1829 Stefko Boulevard occurred at about 8:40 p.m., police said.

The suspect was described as a thinly built, Hispanic male, about 5-foot-8, wearing a blue, zip-up hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, white shoes and a red baseball cap with a white letter “L” on it.

Anyone with information about the robbery is asked to call Bethlehem police.


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