{"id":315679,"date":"2026-10-27T23:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315679\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T23:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T23:28:11","slug":"man-sentenced-in-weapons-case-had-previous-conviction-for-death-of-reading-police-officer-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/315679\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced in weapons case had previous conviction for death of Reading police officer | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>READING, Pa. &#8211; A man who served time for the death of a Reading police officer is back behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>The Berks County District Attorney said Andrew Lee Smith has been sentenced to 12 to 24 years in state prison for a conviction earlier this year in a weapons case.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Smith wasn\u2019t allowed to have a gun due to prior convictions, including involuntary manslaughter in the death of Officer Michael Wise in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>\nCopyright 2026 Maranatha Broadcasting Co., Inc.. All Rights Reserved.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"READING, Pa. &#8211; A man who served time for the death of a Reading police officer is back&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":315680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128730,349,128731,736,128,130,129,128732],"class_list":["post-315679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-andrew-lee-smith","tag-berks-county","tag-michael-wise","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-weapons-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315679","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=315679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/315680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}