{"id":187493,"date":"2026-05-08T20:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187493\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T20:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T20:43:17","slug":"former-erie-clerk-arrested-the-iola-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/187493\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Erie clerk arrested &#8211; The Iola Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ERIE \u2014 Former Erie City Clerk Jessica Altman faces felony theft charges after prosecutors alleged she stole city funds.<\/p>\n<p>The Erie Police Department announced the allegations in a Facebook post Thursday, noting Altman\u2019s employment had been terminated by the city on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Neosho County Attorney Sheryll Bussell filed two charges of felony theft and eight counts of making false filings.<\/p>\n<p>Bussell told KOAM evidence suggested some customers paid their utility bills directly to Altman through Cash App, rather than through official city channels.<\/p>\n<p>Court records allege Altman illegally took in two deposits in December totaling more than $2,000, and other deposits in February, totaling more than $2,400.<\/p>\n<p>Altman appeared in front of Magistrate Judge Melissa Dugan Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her next appearance is set for May 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ERIE \u2014 Former Erie City Clerk Jessica Altman faces felony theft charges after prosecutors alleged she stole city&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137],"class_list":["post-187493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187493","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=187493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}