Bail Denied for One Southside Shooting Suspect, $2.5 Million for Other
Bail is denied for Allentown man charged with homicide in death of Yolanda Morales.
Javier Rivera Alvarado
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
Monday, December 10, 2012
Bail Denied for One Southside Shooting Suspect; $2.5 Million for Other
Bail is denied for Allentown man charged with homicide in death of Yolanda Morales.
Two suspects in the bloody gun battle that left a Bethlehem woman dead and five men injured on Dec. 2 in the city's Southside were arraigned today (Dec. 10) before District Magistrate Nancy Matos Gonzalez. Bail was denied for Rene Figueroa, 32, of 936 W. Gordon St., Allentown, who faces charges of one count of homicide, two counts of attempted criminal homicide and a slew of other charges in connection to the gun fight outside the Puerto Rican Beneficial Society. Bail was set at $2.5 million for Javier Rivera-Alvarado, 38, of 782 Mohawk St., Allentown, who is charged with three counts of attempted criminal homicide and other charges. The suspects were in wheelchairs as they were transported from St. Luke's University Hospital in Fountain…
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Saturday, December 8, 2012
2 Allentown Men Charged in SouthSide Shootings
Rene Figueroa, 32, is charged with killing Yolanda Morales. Javier Rivera-Alvarado, 38, is charged with firing multiple shots in deadly, chaotic melee.
As shots rang out in a South Bethlehem parking lot early Sunday, Yolanda Morales put herself between one of two gunmen and his apparent intended target, her boyfriend Angel Figueroa. So Rene Figueroa, who is not related to Angel, shot Morales once in the chest before firing at Angel Figueroa, according to Bethlehem Police. On Friday, as he lay in the intensive care unit of St. Luke’s University Hospital in Fountain Hill, Rene Figueroa was arraigned on a charge of criminal homicide in Morales’ death. Rene Figueroa, 32, of 936 W. Gordon St., Allentown, also faces numerous other felony counts – including receiving stolen property – stemming from the bloody gun battle that took place along E. Third Street last weekend. The gun Rene Figueroa …
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Mary Genao
8:43 am on Friday, December 14, 2012
Armed, we do take offense Latinos that are no upstanding citizens. Actually, I take offense to anyone to acts that way. The previous poster wrote "all animals, all the time." He was pointing out the obvious? more ›
David Delp
3:34 pm on Wednesday, February 27, 2013
You're right Lewis but, it comes down to the fact that they are cowards to begin with. more ›