Zachary Cole Borghi, the Lehigh County councilmember and City of Bethlehem employee arrested on drug charges in a massive sweep in February of 2025 has been inundated with fresh charges.

Lehigh County District Attorney Gavin P. Holihan said in a statement March 25 that Cole Borghi, one of several defendants in a large-scale drug investigation involving Lehigh County’s 12th Investigating Grand Jury, has been charged with 14 counts of delivery of cocaine and 89 counts of criminal use of communications to affect those sales. Also one count of sale of mushrooms.

Following warrants, a forensic analysis of his mobile phone and Apple iCloud records revealed text messages beginning in 2021 and ending in August 2025.

Those text messages showed Cole Borghi conducting drug transactions beginning in November 2023 through August 2025, and indicate that Cole Borghi used his phone to conduct drug deals beginning in November 2023 through August 2025. The locations those crimes occurred include Cole Borghi’s home in the 700 block of Spring Street in Bethlehem (Lehigh County); a relative’s home in the 300 block of Sixth Avenue in Bethlehem (Lehigh County); Bethlehem City Hall where Cole Borghi was employed (Northampton County); and Upper Saucon Township (Lehigh County). The investigation also revealed that Cole Borghi facilitated a drug transaction during a meeting of the Lehigh County Board of Commissioners.

The investigation revealed a cocaine sale at Northampton County Community College while Cole Borghi was attending the “Peace and Justice Symposium” presented by the Lehigh Valley Justice Institute, and that Cole Borghi purchased and sold cocaine from his home and while working at Bethlehem City Hall.

Cole Borghi was arraigned and bail in the four new criminal cases has been set at $500,000 straight.