{"id":206562,"date":"2026-05-31T00:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206562\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T00:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T00:06:25","slug":"lower-heidelberg-man-sentenced-for-human-trafficking-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206562\/","title":{"rendered":"Lower Heidelberg man sentenced for human trafficking | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOWER HEIDELBERG TWP., Pa. &#8211; A Lower Heidelberg township man, found guilty of human trafficking, has learned his fate.<\/p>\n<p>Steven Najarian was sentenced to life in prison plus 4 to 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say he recruited women from his novelty store at the Berkshire Mall, and threatened them if they reported him.<\/p>\n<p>He was found not guilty on charges of rape, corruption of minors, and indecent assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER HEIDELBERG TWP., Pa. &#8211; A Lower Heidelberg township man, found guilty of human trafficking, has learned his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,31,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-206562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-crime","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\/206562","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=206562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206562\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}