{"id":297509,"date":"2026-10-01T09:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297509\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T09:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T09:24:08","slug":"ag-sunday-sues-idaho-man-over-alleged-spotted-lanternfly-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/297509\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Sunday sues Idaho man over alleged spotted lanternfly scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Pennsylvania officials are suing an Idaho man they allege scammed citizens into buying fake permits for spotted lanternflies.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Dave Sunday said Kevin Wardell sold the fraudulent permits through his business, using the name &#8220;Spotted Lanternfly Commission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The suit alleged Wardell would mail letters to Pennsylvanians that included deceptive logos and wording, making it look like it was coming from the state&#8217;s Department of Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p>The state is currently under a quarantine order to address the spotted lanternfly infestation. This order requires certain businesses to obtain a permit from the department to ensure the spotted lanternfly population does not grow or expand to neighboring areas.<\/p>\n<p>Officials seek to ban Wardell from doing business in the commonwealth and restitution for the victims. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Pennsylvania officials are suing an Idaho man they allege scammed citizens into buying fake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4599,69,71,70,21011,106506],"class_list":["post-297509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-dave-sunday","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-scams","tag-spotted-lanternfly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297509","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=297509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}