{"id":893,"date":"2014-02-27T13:03:23","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T18:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=893"},"modified":"2014-02-27T13:03:23","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T18:03:23","slug":"alleged-identify-theft-reportedly-spans-3-jurisdictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"Alleged identify theft reportedly spans 3 jurisdictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><em>Police: \u00a0Phila. man tried to get loan in W. Chester with W. Whiteland victim\u2019s data<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wwpd-patch1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"wwpd patch\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/wwpd-patch1.png\" width=\"175\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>On Tuesday, Feb. 18, \u00a0a West Whiteland Township resident filed a report with the West Whiteland Township Police Department that he was a victim of identity theft, police said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The resident indicated that he had been contacted by a bank about a loan application, which he had not sought, West Whiteland police said.\u00a0On Wednesday, Feb., 19, \u00a0a man walked into the Santander Bank in West Chester and attempted to complete a $17,500 loan in the victim\u2019s name, police said. The West Chester Borough Police Department responded and detained the suspect, who was identified as Michael Jaje, 39, of \u00a0Philadelphia, West Whiteland police said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">An investigation determined that Jaje had used a counterfeit identification card and the victim\u2019s personal information in an attempt to obtain the loan, West Whiteland police said.\u00a0Jaje was arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Scott Massey, who set bail at \u00a0$25,000 cash, police said, adding that Jaje was remanded to Chester County Prison after failing to post it, police said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police: \u00a0Phila. man tried to get loan in W. Chester with W. Whiteland victim\u2019s data On Tuesday, Feb. 18, \u00a0a West Whiteland Township resident filed a report with the West Whiteland Township Police Department that he was a victim of identity theft, police said. The resident indicated that he had been contacted by a bank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[738,322],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-west-chester-police","tag-west-whiteland-township-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/downingtowntimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}