Tuesday, November 27, 2012
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Retail theft … Atticus Weaver, 20, of Guernsey Avenue, Abington, was arrested Nov. 8 at 5:30 p.m. at Giant on Susquehanna Road after a Giant loss prevention officer saw Weaver conceal three boxes of cough syrup, worth a total of $12, in his jacket, police said. He was also arrested in August for stealing a bottle of cough syrup from the same store. According to police, Weaver has one prior conviction for retail theft. DUI and careless driving … Rachael Costello, 31, of Linden Avenue, Southampton, was arrested Oct. 3 at 2:28 a.m. following a traffic stop after she collided with several bushes near the Rydal Train Station in her white GMC Envoy, police said. According to police, Costello was sliding and fishtailing on the wet road. When …
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
A vodka-induced left turn onto Houston and some retail thefts
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Retail theft … Appaula Vent Jackson, 20, of Venango Street, Philadelphia, was arrested Nov. 6 at 7:10 p.m. after he had been stealing from Kmart, his place of employment, for the past several weeks, police said. The store’s loss prevention manager said that on Nov. 6, he found six Nintendo DS systems in Jackson’s bag in the back room of the store. When confronted, Jackson provided a written statement admitting to attempting to take the systems, which were worth a total of $1,200. Jackson also said that he stole an Xbox 360 Halo 4 edition worth $350 from the stock room. Retail theft … Tonya N. Good, 36, of Opal Street, Philadlphia, was arrested Nov. 4 at 2:34 p.m. after she took the sensors off of $184 worth of merchandise at H&M in …
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
You'd better move that van ...
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Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Simple assault, disorderly conduct and harassment … Jonathan C. Gomez, 26, of Glenloch Street, Philadelphia, was arrested Oct. 15 at 11:27 a.m. following an incident at Sarah Care, an adult day care facility in the 100 block of Washington Lane, in which Gomez punched an employee in the face, police said. According to police, the complainant was transporting clients to the facility in a van and Gomez — a bus driver for First Transit — told him to move the van or he would ram the bus into it. Gomez then exited the bus and said he would “beat the [expletive] out of [the complainant]" and then punched the complainant in the face at least two times with a closed fist. Staff from Sarah Care came out to stop the incident, and Gomez shoved one …
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Summary arrests and more
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Sunday, November 11, 2012
Robbery … An arrest warrant was issued Oct. 9 for Christopher Andr French, 22, of Township Line Road, Elkins Park, after he arranged to meet with an acquaintance to buy a black Dell laptop computer on Oct. 9 at 5:13 p.m. at the A Plus gas station in the 200 block of Township Line Road, police said. According to police, French met with the complainant, ripped the laptop out of the complainant’s hands and fled in a silver car driven by another man. French was last seen wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, dark jeans and boots. Retail theft … Adam M. Holland, 40, of Washington Lane, Jenkintown, was arrested Oct. 9 at Target in the 1400 block of Old York Road after he stole six pieces of clothing, two DVDs and six cans of Nutella spread, …
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Who hasn't fallen asleep with his car on ... and in reverse?
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Friday, November 9, 2012
Receiving stolen property, theft and fleeing and eluding police … Thomas Walton Coffee, 22, of Lukens Avenue, Willow Grove, was arrested Oct. 5 at 5:31 p.m. in the 1600 block of Franklin Avenue after police saw a green Kawasaki dirt bike driving northbound on Reservoir Avenue near Rubicam Avenue without having registration or lighting, police said. When police attempted to stop the dirt bike, it accelerated and turned into a grass field at Crestmont Park. According to police, another police officer saw the dirt bike heading southbound on Easton Road a short time later. The suspect, later identified as Coffee, was ultimately arrested in the 1600 block of Franklin Avenue; the dirt bike was hidden under a plastic pool in the rear of a …
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
You hold the white trash bag full of shirts; I'll cause a distraction.
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
Uniform criminal extradition act … Luis Patino, 33, of Lansdale Avenue, Philadelphia, was arrested Sept. 25 at 5:36 p.m. following a traffic stop for having expired registration near the corner of Susquehanna and Rydal roads, police said. According to police, Patino had an outstanding warrant for a “dangerous drug offense” out of Union County and was detained. Possession of a small amount of marijuana … Brandon Lawrence Boynton, 20, of Osceola Avenue, Elkins Park, was arrested Sept. 18 at 1:39 a.m. in the 200 block of Cadwalader Avenue, police said. According to police, Boynton had a black Walther semi-automatic pellet gun in his possession and a glass jar of marijuana in his pants pocket. The pellet gun was taken in as evidence “for …
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Yeah, those aren't my pants.
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
DUI and possession of a small amount of marijuana … Martin S. Mattox, 29, of Penn Avenue, Glenside, was arrested Sept. 1 at 11:15 a.m. after he was seen driving a Chevy pickup truck on Easton Road near Pershing Avenue while pulling a large landscape trailer, police said. It was known that Mattox had an outstanding warrant in Montgomery County. During the stop, Mattox was nervous and had glassy eyes. He admitted that his license was suspended and admitted to smoking marijuana 20 minutes earlier. He had a glass bowl in his vehicle and a small amount of marijuana in his pocket, police said. Possession of a controlled substance … Megan Prendergast, 21, of Harrison Avenue, Ardsley, was arrested Aug. 29 at 5:23 p.m. following a traffic stop at…
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Sunday, October 7, 2012
Don't wrap stolen stuff in your clothes
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Sunday, October 7, 2012
Robbery, burglary and carrying a firearm without a license … Sean Michael Egan, 27, of Garfield Avenue, Glenside, was arrested Sept. 8 after he made contact with the owner of a house in the 700 block of Hamel Avenue, forced himself into the house and ransacked a bedroom, stealing a Smith and Wesson 9mm handgun, police said. According to police, Egan said he took the gun as collateral for something that was owed to him by the victim. Egan had the gun’s magazine and bullets in his possession, when he was questioned by police, but he said he gave the gun to his brother to “hold.” Police found the gun in a shed in the rear yard of Egan’s house, wrapped in the same West Chester University T-shirt he was wearing when he forced himself into the…
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Uhh ... you can keep that bottle of Rémy Martin
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
Criminal mischief … A warrant was issued Sept. 2 for Angelina Marcucci, 19, of Fairview Avenue, Willow Grove, after she caused damage to a door and to a Ford Ranger pickup truck belonging to a resident of the 1800 block of Fairview Avenue, police said. According to police, the complainant said Marcucci dented both items between 11 a.m. and 1:35 p.m. on Sept. 2; Marcucci sent text messages to the complainant admitting that she caused the damage, which totaled $1,500. Retail theft … Crystal Dantzler, 48, of Green Lane, Philadelphia, was arrested Sept. 2 at 2:55 p.m. after she stole two bottles of liquor — a bottle of Partida Tequila and a bottle of Rémy Martin V, totaling $87 — from the Wine and Spirits store in the 900 block of Old York …
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Stolen textbooks at MCCC, stolen rings and some honest DUI defendants
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Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Reckless endangerment … On Sept. 12 at 4:10 p.m. officers responded to Montgomery County Community College for a report that someone was trying to sell four stolen textbooks to the bookstore. Andrew Choma, 28, of the 200 block of Runner Street, Jenkintown, became nervous and ran to a silver Hyundai and almost struck the MCCC Security vehicle while fleeing in his car. He was located driving north on Butler Pike, stopped by an Ambler police officer, and taken into custody. Three additional textbooks were located in his vehicle bringing the value of the stolen books to $1,484. He was charged with two counts of recklessly endangering another person, theft and receiving stolen property. Choma was arraigned by District Justice Borek and bail …
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Matthew Jackson
5:17 pm on Monday, October 29, 2012
no good...there have been a few people in my neighborhood that were acting up and got in trouble playing with airsoft guns. you just wish that people would be more careful and be aware of what they are doing http://www.airsplat.com/airsoft-safety.htm more ›