Police in Philadelphia are seeking help from the public to track down a woman who, officials claim, sprayed workers at a business in the Frankford section of Philadelphia with mace late last month.<\/p>\n
On Monday, officials shared surveillance footage of the woman, that was taken prior to the incident, on social media.<\/p>\n
According to officials, police are hoping to identify the woman seen in the footage after she, allegedly, entered a store along the 4600 block of Frankford Avenue at about 3:20 p.m. on March 31, 2026, and began hiding items from the shelves on her person.<\/p>\n
When confronted about the hidden items, police claim the woman seen in the surveillance footage produced a canaster of mace and sprayed two workers with the chemical before fleeing the scene. <\/p>\n
Police did not immediately say if the employees needed any medical attention following this incident. <\/p>\n
Officials are asking anyone who may recognize this woman or may have more information on this incident to contact the Philadelphia Police Department’s Northeast Detective Division at 215-686-3153\/3154 or submit a tip to the department’s tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Philadelphia are seeking help from the public to track down a woman who, officials claim, sprayed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11370,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-158504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-frankford","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158504","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=158504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}