{"id":142345,"date":"2026-03-19T02:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142345\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T02:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:46:08","slug":"berks-county-man-indicted-by-jury-for-possessing-weapon-in-federal-prison-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/142345\/","title":{"rendered":"Berks County man indicted by jury for possessing weapon in federal prison | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A Berks County man was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly possessing a weapon while imprisoned in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Ramsee Munoz, 35, of Reading, was indicted by a federal grand jury on one count of possessing contraband in prison, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment alleges that Munoz, an inmate at Federal Correctional Institute Schuylkill, possessed a weapon, specifically a 6- and 1\/3-inch metal object, sharpened on both sides with one side being serrated, on September 18, 2025, in Schuylkill County, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Bureau of Prisons and the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigated the case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The maximum penalty under federal law for this offense is 5 years of imprisonment, a term of supervised release following imprisonment, and a fine, according to officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A Berks County man was indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly possessing a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,31,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-142345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-crime","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\/142345","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=142345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}