{"id":208342,"date":"2026-06-02T12:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208342\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:03:07","slug":"pennsylvania-victims-stolen-funds-routed-through-long-island-coinbase-account-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208342\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Victims&#8217; Stolen Funds Routed Through Long Island Coinbase Account: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chancellor McKee, 22, of Islip, was arrested after an investigation into unauthorized transfers from two victims&#8217; bank accounts, according to Suffolk County Police. <\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania residents had $2,500 and $4,500 separately removed from their accounts and transferred into a Coinbase cryptocurrency account belonging to McKee on Nov. 12, 2025, investigators said. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the victims had fallen for a phone scam before the money was transferred. The funds were later moved into other accounts controlled by McKee, according to detectives. <\/p>\n<p>McKee allegedly withdrew the money from an ATM on Main Street in East Islip on Nov. 23, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Following an investigation by Suffolk County Police Financial Crimes Unit detectives, McKee was charged with Grand Larceny 3rd Degree, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>He was held overnight at the Third Precinct and was scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Tuesday, June 2, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"e-click-here-follow-btn\" data-testid=\"bottom-paragraph\">\n            <a class=\"e-email-signup\" js-follow-button=\"\" data-testid=\"article-click-here-to-subscribe\">Click here<\/a><br \/>\n            to follow Daily Voice<\/p>\n<p>              Allentown<\/p>\n<p>            and receive free news updates.\n          <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chancellor McKee, 22, of Islip, was arrested after an investigation into unauthorized transfers from two victims&#8217; bank accounts,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-208342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208342","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=208342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}