{"id":151568,"date":"2026-03-29T12:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/151568\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T12:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T12:44:10","slug":"crime-alert-berks-man-wanted-in-reading-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/151568\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime Alert Berks. Man wanted in Reading murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Jalal Ansari is wanted in connection with a 2023 murder in Reading. (Crime Alert Berks County)\" width=\"800\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/REG-L-crimealert-01_e6272d.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"4643696\" \/>Jalal Ansari is wanted in connection with a 2023 murder in Reading. (Crime Alert Berks County)<\/p>\n<p>Crime Alert Berks County, a citizen crime-fighting group, is offering cash rewards of up to $10,000 to anyone supplying tips that lead to an arrest in this case or any other case or crime.<\/p>\n<p>Tipsters with crime information can call 877-373-9913 anytime or contact Crime Alert at its website at <a href=\"http:\/\/alertberks.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alertberks.org<\/a>,\u00a0 by downloading the ALERTBERKS app on your mobile device, or by using your mobile phone to text tips to 847411 and typing ALERTBERKS + your tip.<\/p>\n<p>Crime: First-degree murder<\/p>\n<p>Date: March 28-April 5, 2023<\/p>\n<p>Location: Wooded area off Oak Lane in Reading<\/p>\n<p>Police account: Investigators are searching for Jalal Ansari in connection with the death of Javien Perch, who disappeared under suspicious circumstances March 28, 2023, and whose body was found in a wooded area in the city about a week later. Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Alert.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jalal Ansari is wanted in connection with a 2023 murder in Reading. (Crime Alert Berks County) Crime Alert&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[202,182,139,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-151568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151568","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=151568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}