{"id":165563,"date":"2026-04-14T17:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165563\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T17:01:11","slug":"credit-cards-taken-from-vehicles-parked-at-berks-recreation-area-homepage-top-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/165563\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit cards taken from vehicles parked at Berks recreation area | Homepage Top Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UNION TWP., Pa. &#8211; Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) are investigating a series of thefts from vehicles in southern Berks County.<\/p>\n<p>On March 8th, PSP investigators say the unknown perpetrator removed credit cards from several vehicles parked in the 100 block of Campbell Forge Road, Union Township.<\/p>\n<p>The location is part of the Union Twp. Recreation Area along the Schuylkill River Trail, and many vehicles were parked in the area for a half-marathon run on the day the thefts occurred, police say.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Credit cards taken from vehicles parked at Berks recreation area\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69de6795c138b.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Pennsylvania State Police <\/p>\n<p>The thief used the victims&#8217; credit cards a short time later at Wal-Mart, Home Depot, and Best Buy stores in Wyomissing, making over $5,700.00 in unauthorized charges.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the unidentified thief, who arrived at the retail stores on an electric scooter, walks with a slight limp in his left leg.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who with information is asked to contact PSP Reading barracks at 610-378-4227 or Crime Alert Berks.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Credit cards taken from vehicles parked at Berks recreation area\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69de680a7ade3.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Pennsylvania State Police <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UNION TWP., Pa. &#8211; Pennsylvania State Police (PSP) are investigating a series of thefts from vehicles in southern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[279,349,28,1224,128,130,129,74586,9347,24641],"class_list":{"0":"post-165563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks","9":"tag-berks-county","10":"tag-pennsylvania","11":"tag-pennsylvania-state-police","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-retail-stores","16":"tag-schuylkill-river-trail","17":"tag-union-township"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165563","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=165563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}