{"id":263923,"date":"2026-08-12T13:16:31","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263923\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T13:16:31","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T13:16:31","slug":"crime-alert-reading-police-seek-help-in-package-theft-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/263923\/","title":{"rendered":"Crime alert: Reading police seek help in package theft case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Crime Alert Berks County, a citizen crime-fighting group, is offering cash rewards of up to $10,000 to anyone supplying tips that lead to an arrest in this case or any other case or crime.<\/p>\n<p>Tipsters with crime information can call 877-373-9913 anytime or contact Crime Alert at www.alertberks.org, by downloading the ALERTBERKS app on a mobile device, or by texting tips to 847411 and typing ALERTBERKS + the tip.<\/p>\n<p>Unsolved cases are featured regularly in the Sunday Reading Eagle.<\/p>\n<p>Offense: Theft of package<\/p>\n<p>Date: July 22<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Reading police are seeking to identify the man pictured in this security camera image for questioning in a theft that occurred in the 1400 block of Cotton Street.\" width=\"677\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CrimeAlert-suspect.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"7261700\" \/>Reading police are seeking to identify the man pictured in this security camera image for questioning in a theft that occurred in the 1400 block of Cotton Street.<\/p>\n<p>Location: 1400 block of Cotton Street, Reading<\/p>\n<p>Police synopsis: Reading police are asking for the public\u2019s assistance in identifying an individual shown in the security camera images who was involved in a theft from a porch. The theft occurred shortly before 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact Reading police at 610-655-6116 or via Crime Alert. Tipsters should reference report #26-029603.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crime Alert Berks County, a citizen crime-fighting group, is offering cash rewards of up to $10,000 to anyone&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,139,28,736,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-263923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263923","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=263923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}