Police Blotter: Arrested Man Tasered Before Ambulance Trip

 reported to news media the following crimes and incidents from the Narberth-Bala Cynwyd Patch area in the past week:

Retail theft

A would-be thief was Tasered at the on City Avenue in Bala Cynwyd on Dec. 22, police said.

Two Michael Kors watches were taken from the department store that day, and Demetrius Jerome Kosh, 49, of the 5000 block of Morton Street in Philadelphia was arrested, police said. A Lower Merion police officer happened to be in the store investigating another incident when alerted to a man trying to cut the security cords from at least one watch. Working with store security, the officer detained Kosh, who “developed some kind of medical condition,” prompting a call to have him taken to Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood.

According to police, a Taser gun was used on Kosh only when he gave authorities “a hard time” while being put into the ambulance. 

The medical condition Kosh was said to be suffering from (before being Tasered) was not clarified.

Burglary

Two homes on the first block of Derwen Road in Bala Cynwyd were burglarized on the same evening, with jewelry of an undetermined worth stolen from both houses, police said. One home had its side window forced open between 5:30 and 7 p.m. A second home had its rear sliding glass door forced open. Occupants of both houses had left their homes for a short time at around the same time, police said, and both were alerted by neighbors (via phone) that they saw something suspicious. It is not clear if the neighbor, or neighbors, actually called police as well.

A home on the 400 block of Levering Mill Road in Bala Cynwyd was burglarized sometime between Dec. 23 and 25, when jewelry was stolen, police said. A sliding glass door was forced open at the house.

Theft from vehicle

Sometime between Dec. 17 and 20 a theft occurred from a 2008 Honda Accord in the parking lot on the 400 block of City Avenue in Bala Cynwyd. A GPS device was stolen from the vehicle, which was apparently unlocked.

Another unlocked vehicle was lightly ransacked on the 100 block of Rockland Avenue in Bala Cynwyd on Dec. 20. A wallet, including a driver’s license and credit cards were reported stolen. Numerous transactions on the credit cards were recorded before the theft was reported.

Theft

On Dec. 23 or 24, police said, about $2,000 was stolen from an office on the 300 block of City Avenue in Bala Cynwyd. 

The owner of the business (neither the owner nor the business were identified), told police that he came in to do "some work" and noticed the manager’s door “ajar,” which was “unusual.” He reported "light ransacking" of the premises and some force used to get in—along with the missing cash. 

The nature of the forced entry was not reported. No other information about the nature of the business, its exact address, or the floor on which it happened was available.

Theft

A wallet containing $100 in cash and numerous credit cards was stolen from a sixth-floor office in 3 Bala Plaza, in Bala Cynwyd, on Dec. 23, police said. The victim’s bank notified her at about 1 p.m. that day about unusual charges made at the Target store on City Avenue.

Theft from vehicle

A Jeep vehicle on the 100 block of David Road in Bala Cynwyd was reported ransacked between 1:30 and 11 a.m. on Dec. 24. The car was unlocked and change was stolen. No other information was provided.

Theft

At the in Bala Cynwyd on Dec. 24, a wallet and cell phone was stolen from a member who was changing nearby. Credit cards, a driver’s license and about $15 in cash were reported stolen, police said.

Theft from vehicle

On on the first block of Radcliffe Road in Bala Cynwyd, a car owner reported the theft of an iPod charger, a backpack and $10 in cash from Dec. 25 or Dec. 26. The car was apparently unlocked, police said.