{"id":199673,"date":"2026-04-16T18:12:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199673\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T18:12:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T18:12:43","slug":"police-seek-help-locating-robbery-and-assault-suspect-with-nyc-ties-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/199673\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek help locating robbery and assault suspect with NYC ties | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; Law enforcement officials in Berks County are asking for help locating a robbery and indecent assault suspect with ties to the New York City area.<\/p>\n<p>On December 4, 2025, police say 31-year-old Jateek Santiago kicked in the door of the victim\u2019s home and held them at gunpoint while demanding money. When Santiago could not find any, he allegedly fired a round into the bathroom and left the building with the victim\u2019s wallet and cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago is also wanted on felony charges of corruption of minors, indecent assault, and endangering the welfare of children. He was charged April 1 for allegedly sexually assaulting a juvenile multiple times over the course of two years.<\/p>\n<p>Police say Santiago has a last known address in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; Law enforcement officials in Berks County are asking for help locating a robbery and indecent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75346,79354,75,84,83,9,24,63,3909,9107],"class_list":{"0":"post-199673","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-manhattan","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-jateek-santiago","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-manhattan-headlines","12":"tag-manhattan-news","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-pennsylvania","17":"tag-reading"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}