{"id":315549,"date":"2026-08-06T21:54:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315549\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T21:54:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:54:27","slug":"manhattan-man-loses-3000-in-alleged-check-washing-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/315549\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan man loses $3,000 in alleged check washing scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"70\" data-end=\"182\">The Riley County Police Department is investigating a forgery case after a Manhattan man reported losing $3,000.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"184\" data-end=\"288\">According to police, officers took the report around 10:45 a.m. Tuesday at teh Dillons on Sarber Lane.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"290\" data-end=\"423\">A 51-year-old man told investigators an unknown suspect altered a check by washing it and changing the information before cashing it.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"425\" data-end=\"495\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Police estimate the loss at $3,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Riley County Police Department is investigating a forgery case after a Manhattan man reported losing $3,000. According&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-315549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315549","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=315549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}