{"id":115420,"date":"2026-02-16T18:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115420\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:41:07","slug":"pa-inmate-charged-in-eastern-berks-bank-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/115420\/","title":{"rendered":"PA inmate charged in eastern Berks bank robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Easton man who is serving a state prison sentence for robbing a bank in Schuylkill County in May 2024 has been charged with robbing a bank in eastern Berks County the same month.<\/p>\n

The latest charges against Joshua C. Haney, 41, were filed by Bally Police Department on Feb. 5, according to online court records.<\/p>\n

Haney hasn\u2019t been arraigned yet on those charges. Online records indicate he\u2019s an inmate of the State Correctional Institution at Smithfield, Huntington County.<\/p>\n

On May 23, 2024, Bally police said, Haney, wearing a medical mask, flannel shirt and baseball-style hat, robbed<\/a> Truist Bank 706 Main St., by passing a note to a teller.<\/p>\n

A day earlier, authorities said a man wearing identical clothing and a medical mask showed a note during a robbery of First Commonwealth Federal Credit Union in Lapatcong Township, N.J., just outside of Phillipsburg, which is on the opposite side of the Delaware River from Easton where Haney lived.<\/p>\n

A week after the Bally holdup, Pennsylvania State Police investigators with Reading-based Troop L said Haney robbed First National Bank in McAdoo, a borough in northern Schuylkill County.<\/p>\n

He pleaded guilty in August in Schuylkill County Court to robbery of a financial institution and was sentenced to 15 months to five years in state prison.<\/p>\n

State police said they linked Haney to the three bank robberies, although there is no record, as of this week, of Haney being charged in the New Jersey holdup.<\/p>\n

Haney served a state prison sentence for bank robbery a decade ago. He pleaded guilty in Northampton County Court in 2015 to robbing a bank in Easton<\/a> and was sentenced to two to four years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Easton man who is serving a state prison sentence for robbing a bank in Schuylkill County in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115421,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13363,349,202,182,200,139,28,128,130,129,231,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-115420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-bally","9":"tag-berks-county","10":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-montgomery-county","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-pennsylvania","15":"tag-reading-city","16":"tag-reading-city-headlines","17":"tag-reading-city-news","18":"tag-schuylkill-county","19":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115420","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=115420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}