{"id":14756,"date":"2015-01-27T09:50:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=14756"},"modified":"2015-01-27T09:50:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T14:50:50","slug":"downingtown-man-charged-in-embezzlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/?p=14756","title":{"rendered":"Downingtown man charged in embezzlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_103236\" style=\"width: 177px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Eggleston-239x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103236\" class=\" wp-image-1032366\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Eggleston\" src=\"http:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Eggleston-239x300.jpg\" width=\"167\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-103236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deseon Eggleston<\/p><\/div>\n<p>NEW GARDEN \u2014 Township police charged a Downingtown man with embezzling some $18,000 from Modern Mushroom, while serving as the company&#8217;s payroll manager.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they began investigating Deseon Eggleston, 33, after Modern Mushroom contacted them with a report of employee theft on Jan. 9.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that issues turned up during an internal fiscal audit which suggested a series of financial thefts over a period of months. Police said that Eggleston\u00a0created an employee account with fake supporting documents. Once the fictitious employee was created, Eggleston paid the fictitious employee\u00a0more than $18,000, which police said went into his personal bank account.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Jan. 23, investigators obtained a criminal arrest warrant for\u00a0Eggleston, \u00a0who was arrested during a routine traffic stop the following day.<\/p>\n<p>Eggleston was taken into custody without incident and arraigned before Judge\u00a0Hines at Magisterial District Court 15-1-03 in Coatesville. Eggleston was\u00a0released on unsecured bail in the amount of $25,000.00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW GARDEN \u2014 Township police charged a Downingtown man with embezzling some $18,000 from Modern Mushroom, while serving as the company&#8217;s payroll manager. Police said they began investigating Deseon Eggleston, 33, after Modern Mushroom contacted them with a report of employee theft on Jan. 9. Police said that issues turned up during an internal fiscal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5798,19,5799],"class_list":["post-14756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-modern-mushroom","tag-new-garden","tag-theft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14756\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kennetttimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}