{"id":8306,"date":"2012-05-16T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-16T05:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=8306"},"modified":"2012-05-21T11:08:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T16:08:33","slug":"man-arrested-in-connection-with-check-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2012\/05\/man-arrested-in-connection-with-check-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested In <BR> Connection With Check Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_8307\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8307\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Matthew-Ryan-McDonald.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8307\" title=\"Matthew Ryan McDonald\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Matthew-Ryan-McDonald.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew Ryan McDonald<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Deputies have arrested Matthew Ryan McDonald as part of an ongoing investigation into the fraudulent use of the Lee School District payroll account.<\/p>\n<p>McDonald of the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=2900+Southwest+42nd+Street&amp;um=1&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;hq=&amp;hnear=0x88db72be37e169d3:0x4f3649550f190e68,2900+42nd+St+SW,+Lehigh+Acres,+FL+33976&amp;gl=us&amp;ei=DSazT4L1JYL28wSOiqDVCA&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=geocode_result&amp;ct=title&amp;resnum=1&amp;ved=0CB4Q8gEwAA\">2900 block of Southwest 42nd Street<\/a> was arrested Monday and is facing charges of uttering forged checks and grand theft.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies say McDonald and the four women arrested before him, cashed checks at Walmart and Check Cashing stores throughout Lee County.<\/p>\n<p>The account information used on the checks belonged to the Lee County School District&#8217;s payroll account.\u00a0 It is unknown how the checking account numbers were compromised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputies have arrested Matthew Ryan McDonald as part of an ongoing investigation into the fraudulent use of the Lee School District payroll account. McDonald of the 2900 block of Southwest&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306"}],"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=8306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}