{"id":2071,"date":"2025-10-15T17:10:17","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2071\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T17:10:17","slug":"man-accused-of-trying-to-kidnap-women-in-lower-merion-township-pennsylvania-and-cherry-hill-new-jersey-now-in-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/2071\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of trying to kidnap women in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania and Cherry Hill, New Jersey now in custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Police in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania say an arrest has been made in connection with multiple attempted kidnapping incidents that spanned two states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Kent William Powe, 58, was taken into custody on Thursday on charges of attempted kidnapping, robbery and other related offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Powe is accused of preying on women in attempted kidnapping incidents in Lower Merion Township and in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA hsDdd DbOXS oklLN GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kent William Powe, 58, was taken into custody on Dec. 3, 2020 on charges of attempted kidnapping, robbery and other related offenses.\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl vBqtr KrDt itslR WAUrb hakZw HlUVI \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/8482326_120320-wpvi-kidnapper-update-10pm-CC-vid.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kent William Powe, 58, was taken into custody on Dec. 3, 2020 on charges of attempted kidnapping, robbery and other related offenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lower Merion police said, on November 4, Powe followed a woman near the elevators at the Royal Athena Apartment Complex located at 600 Righters Ferry Road. The suspect allegedly pressed a handgun into the victim&#8217;s back and said, &#8220;You know what this is?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim ran off the elevator and Powe soon left.<\/p>\n<p>There is now a multi-state search for a man who authorities in two states say is preying on woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators believe Powe is connected with two other attempted kidnappings that occurred in Cherry Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">During one of the incidents, which happened on November 20 at the 300 Building at the Plaza Grande Apartments, Powe allegedly followed the victim into an elevator at gunpoint.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said he then tried to force her off the elevator, back to the garage, demanding she get in the trunk of his dark-colored Nissan Altima.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The victim refused and the suspect left the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On November 14, at the same apartment building, police said Powe approached another woman, struck up a conversation, and pushed her down before taking off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The women involved in these incidents were not injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Powe currently faces charges connected with last month&#8217;s incident in Lower Merion. Powe has yet to be charged for the alleged incidents in Cherry Hill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He is currently being held on $1 million bail.<\/p>\n<p>Police are looking for an attempted kidnapper who allegedly has ties to incidents in Lower Merion Township, Pennsylvania and Cherry Hill, New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOWER MERION TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania (WPVI) &#8212; Police in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania say an arrest has been made in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1938,1932,1934,1935,183,1931,185,184,1937,186,1933,1936],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-1938","tag-cherry-hill-attempted-kidnapping","tag-cherry-hill-new-jersey","tag-kidnapper","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-attempted-kidnapping","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-pennsylvania","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-lower-merion-township-pa","tag-nj-kidnapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","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=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}