{"id":255686,"date":"2026-07-30T18:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255686\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:37:08","slug":"washington-township-card-shop-burglaries-philadelphia-man-among-2-sought-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/255686\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Township card shop burglaries: Philadelphia man among 2 sought by police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">WASHINGTON TWP, N.J. &#8211; Police in Washington Township are searching for a Philadelphia man who they say was part of a duo that broke into a local card shop.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Rafael A. Gordian, 31, and another unidentified man are accused of smashing the front window of Frank&#8217;s Card Shop on July 1. The pair returned to the small business over a week later armed with a hammer, but failed to get inside.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/0730-rafael-gordian-.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Rafael A. Gordian, 31, is being sought by police in connection to a set of burglaries at Frank&#8217;s Card Shop in Washington Township. <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Gordian, a Philadelphia resident, was driving a red Ford Taurus with a Pennsylvania license plate during both incidents, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Gordian faces charges of conspiracy to commit burglary and attempted burglary.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Detectives are asking the public to review surveillance images of the second suspect and come forward with any information about his identity or whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The second suspect, who has not been identified, wore a gray and black hooded sweatshirt and carried a hammer and a trash bag during both break-ins.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">It is not yet clear if any stolen items have been recovered or if there are additional suspects involved.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/nj\/gloucester-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gloucester County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON TWP, N.J. &#8211; Police in Washington Township are searching for a Philadelphia man who they say was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[592,15365,139,1962,69,71,70,593],"class_list":["post-255686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-gloucester-county","tag-news","tag-nj","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255686","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=255686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}