{"id":280272,"date":"2026-09-06T11:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T11:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280272\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T11:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T11:42:09","slug":"eight-juveniles-arrested-after-overnight-crime-spree-in-bensalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/280272\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight juveniles arrested after overnight crime spree in Bensalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENSALEM, PA \u2014 Bensalem Police arrested eight juveniles early Wednesday following a burglary and multiple vehicle thefts.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded to a burglary in progress at the Starbucks located at 3619 Horizon Boulevard at approximately 3:19 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Officers discovered the drive-thru window had been smashed and the cash registers had been disturbed.<\/p>\n<p>Officers initially located and detained three male juveniles in the Walmart parking lot on Horizon Boulevard and recovered merchandise taken from Starbucks.<\/p>\n<p>Bensalem Police with the assistance of Upper Southampton Police subsequently located and detained five additional male juveniles who had been observed running from the area.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation determined that all eight juveniles were involved in the burglary at Starbucks, as well as multiple confirmed thefts from vehicles in a nearby neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>All eight juveniles were identified and released to their parents or guardians pending further investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The juveniles are also suspected of being involved in additional attempted thefts in and around the Neshaminy Square Shopping Center and nearby residential developments.<\/p>\n<p>Those investigations remain ongoing and police requested that any business owners with video footage from overnight review it and share anything found with Bensalem Police.<\/p>\n<p>All eight juveniles are from Philadelphia and will be charged with burglary, criminal trespass, criminal mischief, theft by unlawful taking, theft from a motor vehicle, receiving stolen property, criminal conspiracy, and loitering and prowling at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BENSALEM, PA \u2014 Bensalem Police arrested eight juveniles early Wednesday following a burglary and multiple vehicle thefts. Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-280272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bensalem","tag-bensalem","tag-bensalem-headlines","tag-bensalem-news","tag-bensalem-township"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280272","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=280272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}