{"id":11978,"date":"2026-01-23T21:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T00:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/?p=11978"},"modified":"2026-01-24T07:40:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T10:40:05","slug":"two-aressted-in-rrlation-to-possession-and-cashing-of-stolen-cheques","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/2026\/01\/23\/two-aressted-in-rrlation-to-possession-and-cashing-of-stolen-cheques\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Charged in Relation to Possession and Cashing of Stolen Cheques."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Two adult males have been arrested and charged following a complaint of fraud being received by the Amherst Police Department on January 9th, 2026. The fraud is in relation to an allegation regarding the possession and cashing of stolen cheques that were used at a local financial institution. The alleged fraud was in excess of $290,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hardeep Singh, aged 45 and Inderpal Singh, aged 36, both of Amherst Nova Scotia have been charged with:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fraud exceeding $5000 contrary to Section 380(1)(a) of the Criminal Code;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possession of property obtained by Crime (over $5000) contrary to Section 354(1)(a) of the Criminal Code;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possession of property obtained by Crime (over $5000) contrary to Section 354(1)(a) of the Criminal Code.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Both individuals were arrested by Amherst Police on January 20th, 2026 and were remanded into custody and are scheduled to appear for a bail hearing on January 23rd, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyone with information related to this incident is asked to contact the Amherst Police Department at 902-667-8600 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: Amherst Police Department Release <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two adult males have been arrested and charged following a complaint of fraud being received by the Amherst Police Department<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10,12,13,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-general","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11982,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11978\/revisions\/11982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnpress.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}