{"id":4491,"date":"2025-10-16T18:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4491\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:59:09","slug":"das-office-closes-two-berks-county-tobacco-shops-amid-ongoing-investigation-berks-regional-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/4491\/","title":{"rendered":"DA&#8217;s office closes two Berks County tobacco shops amid ongoing investigation | Berks Regional News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; Two tobacco shops in the Reading area have been shut down due to an investigation being conducted by the Berks County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>DA John Adams confirmed his office executed search warrants at Prime Tobacco Zone in the 400 block of Penn Avenue, West Reading and at a similar store on Rockland Street in Reading.<\/p>\n<p>Adams says no arrests have been made at this time but both stores have been closed while his office investigates.<\/p>\n<p>The district attorney did not provide further information on what items his investigators may have been searching for.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST READING, Pa. &#8211; Two tobacco shops in the Reading area have been shut down due to an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[1056,1055,28,736,128,130,129,3292],"class_list":["post-4491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county-district-attorney","tag-john-adams","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-tobacco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491","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=4491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}