A Bethlehem couple was arrested for aggravated assault Nov. 30 after police were called to an apartment in Macungie for a fight.

Michael David Layton, 21, and Alexandra Joyce Carter, 22, both of Barrett Drive, were arrested following an incident at an apartment building on Lehigh Street in Macungie around 9:10 p.m.

Macungie police said the couple was visiting a friend and became embroiled in arguments with several neighbors in the apartment building. Both shouted racial epithets and threatened, and shoved residents. Carter allegedly swung at a woman several times and Layton allegedly brandished a pistol, racked the slide and pointed it at a woman's head.

They left the scene in separate cars but were stopped by police on Brookside Road. Police found the pistol was in fact a BB gun, but it lacked any identifying markings.

Layton is charged with aggravated assault, ethnic intimidation, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct, harassment, possessing instruments of a crime, criminal conspiracy and driving under suspension.

Carter is charged with ethnic intimidation, disorderly conduct, terroristic threats, public drunkenness, harassment, aggravated assault and criminal conspiracy. In addition to those charges, a DUI charge is pending results of a blood test.