A Philadelphia man has been arrested and charged with breaking into multiple Dunkin\u2019 locations in Berks County with another man in 2022.<\/p>\n
Louis Myers, 29, was arraigned Thursday in front of District Judge Brian Strand on four counts of burglary; one count of attempted burglary; five counts of criminal mischief; five counts of possessing an instrument of crime; and five counts of criminal trespass.<\/p>\n
He was placed in Berks County Jail in lieu of $50,000 bail.<\/p>\n
Myers is accused of breaking into four Dunkin stores in November 2022 along with Shane Randall, 33, of Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
According to court documents:<\/p>\n
Myers and Randall are accused of breaking into the stores between about 1:40 and 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 27, 2022.<\/p>\n
The break-ins occurred at:<\/p>\n
\u2022 Dunkin\u2019, Love and Morgantown roads, Cumru Township, at 1:39 a.m.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Dunkin\u2019, 800 Lancaster Ave., Reading, at 2:04 a.m.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Dunkin\u2019, 1350 Carbon St., Reading, at 2:21 a.m.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Top Star Express, 2599 Bernville Road, Bern Township, at 2:30 a.m.<\/p>\n
Investigators said the pair used hammers to break drive-thru windows or front windows of the stores to gain access.<\/p>\n
They stole 382 packs of Newport and Marlboro cigarettes with a retail value of nearly $3,500 from the Top Star store.<\/p>\n
At each Dunkin\u2019 location, they went to the office and tried to steal the safe, which was bolted to something.<\/p>\n
They were successful in removing the safe from the Carbon Street location after unbolting it from a filing cabinet. The safe contained nearly $1,500.<\/p>\n
The burglars fled the Cumru location empty-handed after they were unable to open the office door.<\/p>\n
At about 2:45 a.m., the pair attempted to break into a fifth store, but were thwarted by police.<\/p>\n
Wyomissing patrol officers were conducting surveillance on the Dunkin\u2019 store at State Hill Road and Cheltenham Drive when a man wearing latex gloves and carrying a hammer walked up to the drive-thru window.<\/p>\n
He struck the window several times before running toward the front of the building. The officers swarmed the lot in their marked vehicles and saw the suspect get into a white Toyota RAV4 that sped off.<\/p>\n
Officers chased, but the vehicle pursuit was terminated after police lost sight of the vehicle in Lancaster County.<\/p>\n
Police were able to identify one of the suspects through DNA evidence.<\/p>\n
One of the burglars tore the latex gloves he was wearing while pulling on shattered glass at the Curmu location and police were able to obtain a DNA sample from the glove piece left behind.<\/p>\n
That sample was later matched to a sample from the cellphone of a victim of a carjacking in Newark, Del., who told police the robber had picked it up The vehicle stolen in that crime matched the one used in the Berks break-ins.<\/p>\n
About a week after the Berks burglaries, the stolen vehicle was involved in a chase with Pennsylvania and Delaware state police. The driver escaped, but the vehicle was recovered.<\/p>\n
Inside the vehicle, police found cartons of Newport and Marlboro cigarettes, three hammers, a box of latex gloves and other items connected to the Berks crimes.<\/p>\n
In February 2023, Randall turned himself in to police in Newark. He was charged in Berks in March.<\/p>\n
Randall remains free pending further court action.<\/p>\n
Court documents do not detail how Myers was identified as Randall\u2019s accomplice or the details of his arrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Philadelphia man has been arrested and charged with breaking into multiple Dunkin\u2019 locations in Berks County with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-109040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}