{"id":322047,"date":"2026-08-15T13:16:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322047\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T13:16:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T13:16:54","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-brooklyn-woman-accused-of-stealing-nearly-12k-from-melville-ralphs-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/322047\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Brooklyn Woman Accused Of Stealing Nearly 12k From Melville Ralphs Owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A Brooklyn woman was arrested Thursday after allegedly stealing nearly $12,000 from a her former boss at the Melville Ralph\u2019s Famous Italian Ices.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The investigation began when the business owner allegedly discovered numerous unauthorized transactions involving checks made payable to a former employee.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Financial Crimes Unit detectives say they determined that former employee Leeanna Luke forged and deposited 15 stolen checks into her personal bank account, totaling $11,828.13.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Luke was charged with identity theft, grand larceny and criminal possession of a forged instrument.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Brooklyn woman was arrested Thursday after allegedly stealing nearly $12,000 from a her former boss at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322048,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-322047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322047","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=322047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}