BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A Croydon man is in custody after trying to commit a burglary with his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter helping him, police said.<\/p>\n
Bensalem Police have charged James Harkless-Dechellis, 41, of Croydon after catching him trying to burglarize a commercial office building in the 3100 block of Tremont Avenue at 12:29 p.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Police said that Harkless-Dechellis brought his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter with him and instructed her to hold a flashlight while he committed the crime.<\/p>\n
Police found that a side glass door to the building had been shattered and forced open. While conducting a search, officers heard noises from inside the building and located an adult male in a rear equipment room, actively cutting and removing copper wiring. <\/p>\n
Police also recovered numerous tools and containers filled with previously cut wire from inside the building. During the investigation, police said Harkless-Dechellis admitted to entering the building with the intent to steal copper wire for resale. <\/p>\n
Harkless-Dechellis was charged with Burglary, Corruption of Minors, and related offenses. <\/p>\n
He was arraigned by District Judge Falcone, who set bail at 10 percent of $150,000. He was taken to the Bucks County Correctional Facility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM TOWNSHIP, PA \u2014 A Croydon man is in custody after trying to commit a burglary with his…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205190,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-205189","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\/205189","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=205189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}