{"id":61467,"date":"2025-12-15T16:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61467\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T16:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T16:34:18","slug":"police-seek-publics-help-identifying-woman-suspected-of-passing-500-in-counterfeit-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/61467\/","title":{"rendered":"Police seek public\u2019s help identifying woman suspected of passing $500 in counterfeit bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Local police departments are asking for assistance in identifying a woman suspected of using counterfeit cash in separate incidents in Pittston Township and Wilkes-Barre Township.<\/p>\n<p>According to Pittston Township Police, the woman used $550 in fake $50 bills to purchase items at an area business. In a similar case, Wilkes-Barre Township Police report that a woman matching the same description allegedly passed $500 in counterfeit $50 bills at the Walmart in the Wilkes-Barre Township Marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>Images of the woman have been released as investigators work to confirm whether the incidents are connected.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information for Pittston Township Police is asked to call 570-655-6350 or email Officer Brandon Winn at Winn@pittstontownship.org.<\/p>\n<p>Information related to the Wilkes-Barre Township case can be directed to 570-208-4635, extension 326, or sent via private message to the department\u2019s official social media page.<\/p>\n<p>Both departments continue to investigate the use of the counterfeit bills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSTON, LUZERNE CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Local police departments are asking for assistance in identifying a woman suspected of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":{"0":"post-61467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scranton","8":"tag-scranton","9":"tag-scranton-headlines","10":"tag-scranton-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61467","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=61467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}