{"id":186531,"date":"2026-05-07T20:39:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186531\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:39:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:39:10","slug":"police-hunt-for-retail-theft-suspect-in-wyomissing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/186531\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Hunt for Retail Theft Suspect in Wyomissing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img width=\"735\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Shoplifting.jpg\" class=\"attachment-hitmag-featured size-hitmag-featured wp-post-image\" alt=\"Suspect\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/>\t\t\tSubmitted Image<\/p>\n<p>WYOMISSING, PA \u2014 Police in Wyomissing are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a person of interest connected to a reported retail theft investigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wyomissing Police Department, investigators are attempting to identify a man connected to an alleged shoplifting incident reported Tuesday at a retail business on State Hill Road.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not release additional details regarding what merchandise was allegedly stolen or whether charges have been filed.<\/p>\n<p>Police asked anyone who recognizes the individual to contact the department at 610-375-6102. Tips may also be submitted anonymously through Crime Alert Berks County by calling 1-877-373-9913 or by texting 847411 and beginning the message with \u201cALERTBERKS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Investigators asked the public to reference assignment number 39-26-3390 when providing information.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains active, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>All suspects, arrestees, and defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.<\/p>\n<p>Support the local news that supports Chester County. MyChesCo delivers reliable, fact-based reporting and essential community resources\u2014free for everyone. If you value that, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/mychesco\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">click here to become a patron today<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Submitted Image WYOMISSING, PA \u2014 Police in Wyomissing are asking for the public\u2019s help identifying a person of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4828,128,130,129,14835,209,73355],"class_list":["post-186531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-criminal-investigation","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-shoplifting","tag-theft","tag-wyomissing-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186531","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=186531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}