{"id":214883,"date":"2026-03-11T13:53:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214883\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T13:53:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:53:07","slug":"four-arrested-for-ebt-theft-star-94-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214883\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Arrested for EBT Theft | STAR 94.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people who allegedly took part in the theft of public assistance benefits from low-income California families have been arrested and face federal prosecution in San Diego, the U.S. Attorney&#8217;s Office has announced .<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say the recently arrested defendants are part of an ongoing spike in benefits thefts from people with compromised EBT accounts.<\/p>\n<p>More than 52 people have been charged in San Diego since 2023 for stealing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/benefitscal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CalWORKS<\/a>\u00a0benefits, which the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office said resulted in losses of at least $4 million from hundreds of California victims.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say that through the use of card skimmers, victims\u2019 EBT account information is stolen, re-encoded onto \u201ccloned\u201d cards, and their account money then withdrawn at ATMs in the pre-dawn hours before funds are disbursed from the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people who allegedly took part in the theft of public assistance benefits from low-income California families have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,15671,3130,74,1856,1857,1858,76,75,1855],"class_list":["post-214883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-calworks","tag-fraud","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-celebrities","tag-san-diego-concerts","tag-san-diego-events","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}