BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A kitten has returned unharmed to a township pet store after being snatched by a woman on Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n
Bensalem Police were called to Pets Plus at 1336 Bristol Pike for the report of a theft of a British Shorthaired kitten. <\/p>\n
Surveillance video (see below) captured a woman entering the animal cage area with a large bag over her shoulder, police said. A short time later, she exited with the kitten in the bag, police said.<\/p>\n
Bensalem Police identified the woman as Madina Sherkulova, 45, of Bensalem.<\/p>\n
Police went to her home and recovered the kitten unharmed, identifying it using an implanted microchip. <\/p>\n
Bensalem Police have charged Sherkulova with retail theft. Sherkulova also had an active arrest warrant for a previous retail theft in Bensalem, police said. <\/p>\n
District Justice Michael Gallagher arraigned Sherkulova and sent her to the Bucks County Correctional Facility on 10 percent of $150,000 bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A kitten has returned unharmed to a township pet store after being snatched by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-20149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20149","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=20149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}