{"id":146767,"date":"2026-03-24T08:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146767\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T08:52:11","slug":"philadelphia-police-officer-arrested-for-stealing-items-worth-55-from-delco-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/146767\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police officer arrested for stealing items worth $55 from Delco store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Philadelphia police officer was arrested for stealing from a store in Delaware County over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Meika Bell, who works in the Philadelphia Police Department&#8217;s 9th District, was arrested Friday for two counts of summary retail theft in Radnor. She is accused of stealing merchandise worth $55 from a TJ Maxx store and running away from store security on Lancaster Avenue, according to Radnor Township police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bell was released on her own recognizance, Radnor police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia police declined to comment while internal affairs is reviewing the incident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Philadelphia police officer was arrested for stealing from a store in Delaware County over the weekend.\u00a0 Meika&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146768,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[212,69,71,70,2245,40495,14835],"class_list":["post-146767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-delaware-county","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police","tag-radnor-township","tag-shoplifting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146767","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=146767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}