{"id":108491,"date":"2026-02-08T15:29:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108491\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:29:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:29:07","slug":"berks-county-coroner-seeks-publics-help-to-locate-next-of-kin-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/108491\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County Coroner seeks public\u2019s help to locate next of kin | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office is asking for the public\u2019s assistance in locating family members of Scott J. Lechki, 73.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Coroner\u2019s Office, Lechki was known to have lived in both New Tripoli and the Reading area.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are attempting to notify next of kin and are requesting help from anyone who may have information regarding his family.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is urged to contact the Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office at 610-478-3280.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The Berks County Coroner\u2019s Office is asking for the public\u2019s assistance in locating family members&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[14018,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-108491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county-coroner","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}