READING, Pa. – Berks County Detectives announced the arrest of a Reading woman following an investigation into allegations of senior financial exploitation\/fraud.<\/p>\n
In April of 2024, investigators initiated a criminal investigation involving numerous purchases that had been made utilizing the victim\u2019s debit card and banking information without her consent. Authorities say the victim is a 78-year-old, care dependent woman.<\/p>\n
The investigation revealed that between November 2023 and April 2024, 84 transactions, totaling $4,498.65, were conducted without the victim\u2019s knowledge or authorization.<\/p>\n
Investigators determined that during the time of the transactions, the defendant, 46-year-old Jennifer Konen of Reading, was the primary in-home health care provider for the victim.<\/p>\n
A closer examination of the financial transactions in question revealed that many of the alleged payments could be linked to accounts affiliated with Konen.<\/p>\n
On Monday, Konen was charged with financial exploitation of an older adult or care-dependent person, theft by unlawful taking, receiving stolen property and access device fraud.<\/p>\n
She was arraigned Tuesday and released on $10,000 unsecured bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. – Berks County Detectives announced the arrest of a Reading woman following an investigation into allegations…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,71440,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-157798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-jennifer-konen","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","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\/157798","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=157798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}