{"id":164913,"date":"2026-04-13T23:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164913\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T23:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T23:06:10","slug":"da-warns-public-of-court-appearance-scam-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/164913\/","title":{"rendered":"DA warns public of court appearance scam | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; The Berks County District Attorney&#8217;s Office is sounding the alarm about a new scam regarding missed court appearances.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say scammers use fake documents that look real and tell potential victims to use Bitcoin kiosks to resolve warrants.<\/p>\n<p>They say law enforcement will not ask you for Bitcoin payments and they will never demand money or payment over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>If you get a call or message like this, authorities say you should hang up and never give out personal information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; The Berks County District Attorney&#8217;s Office is sounding the alarm about a new scam regarding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,1056,28,736,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-164913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-berks-county-district-attorney","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\/164913","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=164913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}