{"id":9492,"date":"2020-12-04T08:54:31","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T08:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=9492"},"modified":"2020-12-04T08:54:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T08:54:31","slug":"police-allege-woman-posed-as-firefighter-to-fraudulently-claim-190000-lithgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/04\/police-allege-woman-posed-as-firefighter-to-fraudulently-claim-190000-lithgow\/","title":{"rendered":"Police allege woman posed as firefighter to fraudulently claim $190,000 \u2013 Lithgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Lithgow woman has been charged after allegedly posing as a volunteer firefighter to claim relief funds of more than $190,000.<br \/>\nDetectives from Chifley Police District initiated inquiries after multiple submissions were allegedly made between Friday 17 January 2020 and Saturday 20 June 2020, applying for the bushfire volunteer firefighter payment.<br \/>\nPolice will allege a 49-year-old woman submitted 522 claims online and was paid for 34, for a total of more than $190,000.<br \/>\nFollowing inquiries, detectives executed a search warrant at a home on Calero Street, Lithgow, shortly after 9am on Wednesday (2 December 2020), and arrested the woman at the scene.<br \/>\nSeveral items \u2013 including clothing, electrical items and identification \u2013 were also seized.<br \/>\nThe woman was taken to Lithgow Police Station where she has been charged with 34 counts of dishonestly obtain financial advantage by deception, and four counts of dishonestly obtain financial advantage by deception (attempted).<br \/>\nShe was granted strict conditional bail to appear before Lithgow Local Court <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"x-apple-data-detectors:\/\/6\">on Thursday 28 January 2021<\/a>.<br \/>\nUnder this scheme, each volunteer could claim up to $6000.<br \/>\nThe woman is not \u2013 and never has been \u2013 a volunteer firefighter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lithgow woman has been charged after allegedly posing as a volunteer firefighter to claim relief funds of more than $190,000. Detectives from Chifley Police District initiated inquiries after multiple submissions were allegedly made between Friday 17 January 2020 and Saturday 20 June 2020, applying for the bushfire volunteer firefighter payment. Police will allege a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/12\/04\/police-allege-woman-posed-as-firefighter-to-fraudulently-claim-190000-lithgow\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Police allege woman posed as firefighter to fraudulently claim $190,000 \u2013 Lithgow&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}