{"id":269653,"date":"2026-06-17T15:44:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269653\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T15:44:49","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T15:44:49","slug":"manhattan-walgreens-victimized-in-gift-card-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/269653\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Walgreens victimized in gift-card scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Two businesses in Manhattan were scammed out of more than $3,000 worth of gift cards in a pair of incidents that were reported on Tuesday night, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u2022 The first incident was reported at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday at the Walgreens store located at 325 Bluemont Ave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In that case, Riley County police filed a report of theft by deception when two unknown women scammed an employee into loading gift cards without payment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The total estimated loss associated with this case was listed at $1,596.95.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u2022 The second case was reported around 8:09 p.m. Tuesday at the Walgreens store at 2719 Anderson Ave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Riley County police officers filed a report of theft by deception when it was reported that two unknown females scammed an employee into loading gift cards without payment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The total estimated loss associated with this case is $1,557.20.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Cierre de Walgreens en Estados Unidos\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/FMFQL4WTE5AAJG4YPOSH7TENIA.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"653\" \/>A Manhattan Walgreens store was victimized in a gift-card scam that was reported Tuesday night, authorities said.(GJP | AP)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">There were no immediate reports of arrests, and additional information wasn\u2019t available on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information may call Manhattan Riley County Crime Stoppers at 785-539-7777.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WIBW. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MANHATTAN, Kan. (WIBW) &#8211; Two businesses in Manhattan were scammed out of more than $3,000 worth of gift&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[48727,75,84,83,9,24,63,800,5947,64093],"class_list":["post-269653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-gift-card","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-riley-county-police","tag-scam","tag-walgreens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269653","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=269653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}