{"id":204836,"date":"2026-05-28T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204836\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T21:36:08","slug":"croydon-man-allegedly-had-11-year-old-hold-flashlight-during-bensalem-burglary-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/204836\/","title":{"rendered":"Croydon man allegedly had 11-year-old hold flashlight during Bensalem burglary: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BENSALEM, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; Bensalem police say they arrested a man accused of breaking into an office building and bringing a child with him on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities said James Harkless-Dechellis, 41, of Croydon, was caught cutting copper wiring from a building in the 3100 block of Tremont Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers responded around 12:30 p.m. and found the building&#8217;s door shattered and forced open.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR zFTjo hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/19188759_052826-wpvi-bensalem-burglary-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Inside, police said they located Harkless-Dechellis in an equipment room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators allege he brought along his girlfriend&#8217;s 11-year-old daughter and instructed her to hold a flashlight while he removed copper wiring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to police, Harkless-Dechellis admitted to entering the building with the intent to steal the wiring for resale.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">He has been charged with burglary, corruption of minors and related offenses. Bail was set at 10% of $150,000.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; Bensalem police say they arrested a man accused of breaking into an office building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":204837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[90255,191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-204836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-90255","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\/204836","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=204836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}