Crime & Safety
Daytime Burglary Reported in Merion
Crime follows one day after a suspicious visitor comes to homeowner's door
On Jan. 8, Lower Merion Township Police were called to the home at 287 Meeting House Lane in Merion to investigate a burglary that occurred between 11:15 a.m. and 2:15 p.m.
The residents informed police that they arrived at their home at just after 2 p.m. to find that a pane of glass in their front door had been shattered and that the house had been ransacked.
Gone missing were multiple pieces of jewelry and a laptop computer, police said.
The residents informed police that on Jan. 7, the day before the burglary, a black male rang their doorbell, but stated that he had the wrong address and then left after interacting with the residents.
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