{"id":57569,"date":"2025-08-11T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=57569"},"modified":"2025-08-11T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T11:32:00","slug":"fraud-result-in-close-to-5000-loss-for-east-hants-business-rcmp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=57569","title":{"rendered":"Fraud results in close to $5,000 loss for East Hants business: RCMP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56509&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>EAST HANTS:<\/strong> RCMP in East Hants are investigating a report of a fraud at a local store in Elmsdale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Hants RCMP Sgt. Scott MacRae provided details of what police have determined so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation revealed that a cashier had, over several months, intentionally not scanned or falsely applied discounts to customers in exchange for gift cards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police say there were 55 transactions identified with a total loss of $4,794.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Charges are forthcoming in the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File # 20251126530<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56376&#8243;]<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\">[metaslider id=&#8221;56514&#8243;]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST HANTS: RCMP in East Hants are investigating a report of a fraud at a local store in Elmsdale. East Hants RCMP Sgt. Scott MacRae provided details of what police have determined so far. The investigation revealed that a cashier had, over several months, intentionally not scanned or falsely applied discounts to customers in exchange [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[168,196,1581,986,1228,14],"class_list":["post-57569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-business","tag-east-hants","tag-east-hants-rcmp","tag-elmsdale","tag-fraud","tag-rcmp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}