Crime & Safety

Police Blotter: 2 Bala Cynwyd Homes Burglarized While Owners Vacation

The following information has been supplied by the Lower Merion Police Department. If arrests or charges are mentioned, they do not indicate guilt or a conviction.

Lower Merion Township police reported last week's crimes and incidents Monday afternoon, Aug. 8, in a weekly briefing to news media.

Retail theft: About $1,500 in Apple merchandise was stolen from the AT&T Wireless store on City Avenue in Bala Cynwyd just after 11 a.m. on Aug. 2, police said. A surveillance tape reveals an unidentified black male in his 20s, approximately 5-foot, 5-inches tall and wearing a baseball cap, came in and cut the phone cords and promptly left the premises.

Theft: Credit cards, $8 in cash, a woman’s leather wallet and a gym bag were stolen from a locker room in the on City Avenue in the Bala Cynwyd Shopping Center on Aug. 2 between 8 and 9 a.m., police said. The lock was missing upon discovery of the theft, and the gym bag itself was later recovered in the same locker room.

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Burglary: A home on the 400 block of Bryn Mawr Avenue in Bala Cynwyd was burgled sometime between Aug. 4 and Aug. 6, police said, while the inhabitants were away on vacation. An alarm was activated, and police responded, finding damage to a screen door and a window. The thief entered through the window, police said, and ransacked a bedroom. Police have been in touch with the home’s owner, still on vacation, and it is not yet known if anything was stolen.

Burglary: A home on the 300 block of Kent Road in Bala Cynwyd was burgled sometime between Aug. 5 and Aug. 6, police said, again while the inhabitants were away on vacation. Again, an alarm was activated, and police responded, finding damage to a window in the rear of the property where the actor entered. Police were in touch with the home’s owner, still on vacation, who reported a jewelry box of unknown value to be missing from a bedroom.

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Retail theft: Two handbags valued at $200 each were stolen from the Annie Sez store on Montgomery Avenue in Narberth on Aug. 5, police said. An unknown black female, described as dark-skinned, heavy-set and between 25 and 35 years old, grabbed the bags and ran from the store, fleeing in a waiting vehicle, the report stated. There was no description of the vehicle.

Retail theft: On Aug. 7 at 2 p.m., an employee of on City Avenue in Bryn Mawr was arrested and charged with theft of three articles of clothing valued at $199, police said. Un Won Gail, 44, of the 5500 block of Wissahickon Avenue in Philadelphia, was apprehended after being observed removing security sensors from the clothing items, wrapping them in tissue paper and putting them in a Lord & Taylor shopping bag before exiting the store through the employee entrance, police said.


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