{"id":41215,"date":"2016-09-21T18:14:55","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T22:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=41215"},"modified":"2016-09-21T18:14:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T22:14:55","slug":"reward-increased-in-search-for-federal-agent-imposter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2016\/09\/reward-increased-in-search-for-federal-agent-imposter\/","title":{"rendered":"Reward Increased In Search For Federal Agent Imposter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-41216\" title=\"415 Pinhole Sep 13 Face 3\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/415-Pinhole-Sep-13-Face-3-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/415-Pinhole-Sep-13-Face-3-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/415-Pinhole-Sep-13-Face-3.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Just over a week after an unknown man posed as a US Marshal at three local businesses, the reward for information leading to his real identity has been increased.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Marshals Service is now adding an additional $2,500 to Crime Stoppers\u2019 existing reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the fake agent\u2019s identification and arrest.\u00a0 Last Tuesday, \u00a0Sept. 13, an unknown male went to three businesses in the Palm Beach Boulevard area presenting himself as if he was a U.S. Marshal.\u00a0 During his time at each of the businesses, the man asked a series of unconventional questions which seemed highly suspicious to employees.\u00a0 The man clearly looked like an authentic Marshal, wearing a bulletproof vest, a look-alike Marshals badge and a holstered gun.\u00a0 However, after his suspicious actions were reported to law enforcement, it was quickly determined that the man was indeed an imposter.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the identity and whereabouts of the suspect is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS (8477).\u00a0 All callers will remain anonymous and will be eligible for a cash reward of up to $1,000 from Crime Stoppers and $2,500 from the U.S. Marshals Service.\u00a0 Tips may also be made online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southwestfloridacrimestoppers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.southwestfloridacrimestoppers.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over a week after an unknown man posed as a US Marshal at three local businesses, the reward for information leading to his real identity has been increased. The&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":41216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41215"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41215\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}