MT. PENN , Pa – Fallen Central Berks Regional Police Officer Kristen Yeager leaves behind a legacy of service.<\/p>\n
“When I heard about what happened to Kristen it was first I said a lot of prayers. We didn’t know, and it’s sad. It’s a sad situation and we can only pray for her family and her,” said Officer Karen Grycon with Exeter Township Police.<\/p>\n
One of the people who helped start Yeager’s years of service, Officer Karen Grycon, longtime member of the Exeter Township Police Department said, “When I heard about it that I was an influence on her it was an honor. I feel honored that she said that about me.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
In a story provided to us by the Boyertown School TV program, Yeager said as much during an interview, while working as a School Resource Officer for about year, starting in August of 2019. “When I was in fifth grade we had the DARE program and my DARE officer was a female, she was the first female officer in Berks County and I just kept in contact with her throughout high school I was a DARE role model and went to college and here I am,” Yeager said.<\/p>\n
“I was at a festival some kind of event at Exeter high school and Kristen ran up to me and introduced me to them telling them I was a big influence on her becoming a police officer,” Grycon said.<\/p>\n
Yeager died in a crash in Earl Township on Friday night while on her way to help a neighboring police department. The choice of entering the police force is one that doesn’t always guarantee a safe return home, something Grycon knows.<\/p>\n
“My father, retired Sgt Thomas R Webber from the Lancaster city police force, was a big influence on me becoming a police officer,” said Grycon.<\/p>\n
Stories of inspiration and influence, following unspeakable tragedy, along the thin blue line.<\/p>\n
“I work hard to encourage other young people to make right choices and do good things in life and if they want to be a police officer,” Grycon said. ” Stay in school do good and be anything you want to be just work hard.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MT. PENN , Pa – Fallen Central Berks Regional Police Officer Kristen Yeager leaves behind a legacy of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,279,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-209102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209102","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=209102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}