{"id":126106,"date":"2026-02-28T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126106\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T15:20:10","slug":"man-arrested-for-burglarizing-homes-of-deceased-individuals-in-berks-county-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126106\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested for burglarizing homes of deceased individuals in Berks County | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A Berks County man is now charged after allegedly preying on people who just died.<\/p>\n<p>Derrick Raker, 39, of Reading, is accused of regularly searching obituaries and addresses of deceased people and then burglarizing their homes.<\/p>\n<p>Police saying he took valuables and many firearms from homes around Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>Police now asking that if you believe a deceased relative was a victim to contact police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A Berks County man is now charged after allegedly preying on people who just died.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-126106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126106","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=126106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}