LOWER MERION\u2014Lower Merion police are warning residents of a recent uptick in car thefts and thefts from cars.<\/p>\n
During a police committee meeting last week, Lower Merion Police Superintendent Andy Block reported that there have recently been 53 thefts and attempted thefts from cars and 22 vehicle thefts.<\/p>\n
Among the recent theft reports was one on Jan.\u00a027, when Lower Merion police received a report of a theft from a vehicle in Belmont Hills. The complainant reported that an unlocked Honda was entered and gone through sometime over the previous couple of days while parked in front of the home.<\/p>\n
On Jan. 23, an attempted vehicle theft was reported in Wynnewood when the complainant reported that someone smashed the sunroof of a Lexus and attempted to remove it. \u00a0The incident occurred sometime over the past week while the vehicle was parked in the apartment building\u2019s parking garage.<\/p>\n
On Jun. 20, someone reported the theft from a vehicle in Bryn Mawr. The victim told police that sometime over the previous week, the license plate was removed from the rear of their Nissan while it was parked in a township parking lot.<\/p>\n
On Jan. 16, a Land Rover was reported stolen from the driveway of a residence during the previous night.<\/p>\n
On Jan. 12 in Villanova, a resident reported seeing three people pulling on car handles. The suspects fled from the area. The same day, a Porsche was stolen from the driveway of a residence in Gladwyne that occurred during the previous night. \u00a0The vehicle was left unlocked with a key fob inside. A theft from a Toyota was also reported that same day in Gladwyne.<\/p>\n
Also on Jan. 12, a theft from a BMW was reported after the rear window was broken out and the vehicle\u2019s interior was searched during the overnight hours while parked in the driveway of the victim\u2019s residence. \u00a0The investigation into the incident is continuing.<\/p>\n
Block said the department will run advertising and campaigns about the recent thefts because most of the vehicles involved have been left unlocked overnight. \u00a0At the same time, valuables are being left inside them.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo it\u2019s preventable if our residents are informed to make sure they lock the vehicles, there\u2019ll be less threat of becoming a victim,\u201d Block said. \u201cAnd also with some of the theft of our motor vehicles, when the vehicles are taken, they\u2019re left unlocked with the keys in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Block said they have also added patrols to those areas where these thefts have been occurring throughout the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MERION\u2014Lower Merion police are warning residents of a recent uptick in car thefts and thefts from cars.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[182,183,185,184,186,200,139,28,199],"class_list":["post-109098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-local-news","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-montgomery-county","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-top-stories-mlt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109098","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=109098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}