{"id":172663,"date":"2026-04-22T10:10:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172663\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T10:10:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T10:10:27","slug":"millcreek-police-confirm-suspicious-person-is-a-solicitor-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/172663\/","title":{"rendered":"Millcreek Police Confirm Suspicious Person is a Solicitor | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Millcreek Township Police say recent reports of suspicious individuals approaching homes are no longer considered a danger. After several calls from residents, officers made contact with the people involved and confirmed they were out\u2011of\u2011town solicitors, not suspects in any criminal activity.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say no crimes were uncovered. The individuals were advised to obtain the proper township permits and to be mindful when approaching homes.<\/p>\n<p>Police encourage residents to continue reporting anything that feels out of place, and to call 9\u20111\u20111 in an emergency.<\/p>\n<p>We have new images and video connected to the suspected man.<\/p>\n<p>These are the images and video neighbors and police shared with us. As we mentioned, he is described as a white male, believed to be middle-aged, with shoulder-length curly brown hair. He was last seen wearing a white baseball cap, a light gray hoodie, and black pants.<\/p>\n<p>One resident said the man claimed to work for Elev8 Energy, a solar panel company based in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors told us he never showed identification and returned multiple times, even when \u201cNo Soliciting\u201d signs were posted.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Millcreek Township Police say recent reports of suspicious individuals approaching homes are no longer considered a danger. After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,1021,4869,6674,206,450],"class_list":{"0":"post-172663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-erie","9":"tag-erie-headlines","10":"tag-erie-news","11":"tag-investigation","12":"tag-millcreek","13":"tag-neighbors","14":"tag-police","15":"tag-suspect"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172663","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=172663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}