{"id":241088,"date":"2026-07-11T16:03:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241088\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:03:36","slug":"police-warn-amid-string-of-home-burglaries-in-lower-merion-twp-montgomery-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/241088\/","title":{"rendered":"Police warn amid string of home burglaries in Lower Merion Twp., Montgomery County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police in Lower Merion Township are warning residents to secure their homes against burglars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities say thieves recently targeted homes while the owners were away, in neighborhoods like Bryn Mawr and Wynnewood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators believe some of these crimes may be connected to a South American theft organization.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We&#8217;re hitting the heart of the summer here, people are on vacation or they&#8217;re traveling abroad,&#8221; said Lt. Michael Keenan, with the Lower Merion Twp. Police Department. &#8220;These are the times you wanna be aware of what&#8217;s going on at your house and making sure you&#8217;re securing your house in the best way possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police advise residents to use the department&#8217;s Vacant House Program, so officers can check on their homes while they&#8217;re out of town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Lower Merion Township are warning residents to secure their homes against burglars. Authorities say thieves recently&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[183,185,184,186,65227,12779,10846],"class_list":["post-241088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion","tag-lower-merion-headlines","tag-lower-merion-news","tag-lower-merion-township","tag-michael-keenan","tag-neighborhoods","tag-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241088","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=241088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}