{"id":272932,"date":"2026-08-27T01:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272932\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T01:10:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T01:10:06","slug":"mom-children-hide-in-locked-bathroom-as-suspected-burglar-breaks-into-pennsylvania-home-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272932\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom, children hide in locked bathroom as suspected burglar breaks into Pennsylvania home, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A homeowner and her children locked themselves inside a second-floor bathroom Monday afternoon while a suspected burglar was inside their Pennsylvania home, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The homeowner called 911 around 1:45 p.m. as a man tried to force his way through a side door of the home on the 2900 block of Arch Road in East Norriton, Montgomery County, according to Plymouth Township police.<\/p>\n<p>The woman remained on the phone with a dispatcher and locked herself and her children in an upstairs bathroom until officers arrived, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers confronted Juan Medina as he was leaving the home and took him into custody without incident, police said. No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Medina was also carrying property believed to have been taken from a vehicle at another home on the 3000 block of Arch Road.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the homeowner at that property reported that Medina did not gain access to the house.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking other residents along Arch Road to review their surveillance footage and report any suspicious activity or missing property.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re interested in anybody else along that stretch of roadway on Arch Road who may have surveillance video of this subject or who may be missing things from a vehicle or whose residence may have been broken into,&#8221; Plymouth Township police Detective Sgt. Christopher Schwartz said.<\/p>\n<p>Medina is charged with burglary, criminal trespass and several theft-related offenses, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with surveillance video or information about the investigation is asked to contact Plymouth Township police.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A homeowner and her children locked themselves inside a second-floor bathroom Monday afternoon while a suspected burglar was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[200,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-272932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-montgomery-county","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272932","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=272932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}