{"id":34464,"date":"2025-11-14T20:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/34464\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T20:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T20:45:13","slug":"tips-sought-in-fleetwood-area-counterfeiting-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/34464\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips sought in Fleetwood-area counterfeiting 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 its website at <a href=\"https:\/\/crimealertberks.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">alertberks.org<\/a> or via the by downloading the ALERTBERKS app on your mobile device, or by using your mobile phone to text tips to 847411 and typing ALERTBERKS + your tip.<\/p>\n<p>Unsolved cases are featured regularly in the Sunday Reading Eagle.<\/p>\n<p>Crime: Passing counterfeit money<\/p>\n<p>Date and time: Oct. 30, 3-4 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Location: Dollar General, 44 Farmers Drive, Richmond Township<\/p>\n<p>Police account: Fleetwood are requesting assistance identifying two suspects who passed five counterfeit $100 bills at an area business. Anyone with information is asked to contact Crime Alert or Fleetwood Detective Keith Merkel at 610-944-7011, extension 500.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Fleetwood police are requesting assistance identifying two suspects who passed counterfeit $100 bills at Dollar General, 44 Farmers Drive, Richmond Township, on Oct. 30. (Crime Alert Berks County)\" width=\"960\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/REG-L-crimealert-02.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2344453\" \/>Fleetwood police are requesting assistance identifying two suspects who passed counterfeit $100 bills at Dollar General, 44 Farmers Drive, Richmond Township, on Oct. 30. (Crime Alert Berks County)<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Fleetwood police are requesting assistance identifying two suspects who passed counterfeit $100 bills at Dollar General, 44 Farmers Drive, Richmond Township, on Oct. 30. (Crime Alert Berks County)\" width=\"960\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/REG-L-crimealert-01.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"2344455\" \/>Fleetwood police are requesting assistance identifying two suspects who passed counterfeit $100 bills at Dollar General, 44 Farmers Drive, Richmond Township, on Oct. 30. (Crime Alert Berks County)<\/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":34465,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,16423,182,139,28,128,130,129,12128,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-34464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-fleetwood","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pennsylvania","14":"tag-reading-city","15":"tag-reading-city-headlines","16":"tag-reading-city-news","17":"tag-richmond-township","18":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34464","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=34464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34464\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}