{"id":205870,"date":"2026-05-30T01:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205870\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T01:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T01:07:09","slug":"novelty-store-owner-sentenced-in-human-trafficking-case-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205870\/","title":{"rendered":"Novelty store owner sentenced in human trafficking case | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A Lower Heidelberg Township man found guilty of human trafficking has learned his sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Najarian was sentenced to life in prison plus four to 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say he recruited women from his novelty store at the Berkshire Mall and then threatened them if they reported him.<\/p>\n<p>Najarian was found not guilty on charges of rape, corruption of minors and indecent assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A Lower Heidelberg Township man found guilty of human trafficking has learned his sentence. Steven&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[131,28,128,130,129,90583],"class_list":["post-205870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berkshire-mall","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-steven-najarian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205870","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=205870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}