{"id":143399,"date":"2026-03-20T03:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143399\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:56:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:56:18","slug":"delaware-county-pa-thefts-upper-darby-police-search-for-2-men-who-broke-into-lottery-skill-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/143399\/","title":{"rendered":"Delaware County, Pa .Thefts: Upper Darby police search for 2 men who broke into lottery skill machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">UPPER DARBY, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Two men are wanted for kicking open lottery skill machines in Upper Darby, Delaware County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Upper Darby Police Department released images of the two suspects on its <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UpperDarbyPolice\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook page on Wednesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">One of the men was wearing a Gucci shirt and ripped jeans. The other had on a Patagonia sweatshirt.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/11840098_051222-wpvi-upper-darby-robbers-430am-vid.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In another image, one of the suspects could be seen wearing a McDonald Building Company vest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/11840960_051222mcdonaldvest.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Upper Darby Police Department<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police say the duo has been seen recently playing lottery skill machines in convenience stores.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">They then kick open the machines and flee with the money inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Several other police departments are investigating the same type of thefts, police say.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Anyone with information on the men is asked to contact Upper Darby police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Meanwhile, McDonald Building Company issued the following statement:<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;McDonald Building Company has verified that the individual shown wearing the orange vest is not an employee, past or present.  McDonald Building Company is cooperating with all law enforcement officials to assist in solving this case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">MORE TOP STORIES:<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPPER DARBY, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Two men are wanted for kicking open lottery skill machines in Upper Darby,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[65606,28396,65603,65605,65602,147,65604,149,148,39368,65601,150],"class_list":["post-143399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upper-darby","tag-65606","tag-convenience-stores","tag-delaware-county-thefts","tag-lottery-machines","tag-lottery-skill-machines","tag-upper-darby","tag-upper-darby-crime","tag-upper-darby-headlines","tag-upper-darby-news","tag-upper-darby-police-department","tag-upper-darby-theft","tag-upper-darby-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143399","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=143399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}