{"id":303272,"date":"2026-10-09T19:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303272\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T19:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T19:04:11","slug":"couple-sought-in-burglary-of-youth-baseball-concession-stand-in-northern-berks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/303272\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple sought in burglary of youth baseball concession stand in northern Berks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Leesport couple has been charged with burglarizing the Schuylkill Valley Youth Baseball Association concession stand.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Berks Regional police last week charged Julian F. DeLeo, 31, and Brina M. Franckowiak, 28, with burglary, conspiracy, theft and criminal mischief in the Sept. 29 burglary in Leesport Park.<\/p>\n<p>Neither was in custody as of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the probable cause affidavit:<\/p>\n<p>Police were called to the park on the evening of Sept. 29 after the theft was discovered by association officials. They believed that\u00a0 between 4 p.m. Sept. 28 and 5 p.m. Sept. 29 someone entered a window that had been accidentally left unlocked.<\/p>\n<p>Stolen were two dozen bottles of Gatorade, some candy and a roll of quarters totaling $10. There was also $152 missing from the register that the thieves broke into, and about $20 taken from the tips jar.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the stolen property, the damage to the register was estimated at $120.<\/p>\n<p>A Northern Berks officer reviewed security camera footage from the park and quickly identified the suspects from past interactions. Police obtained arrest warrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Leesport couple has been charged with burglarizing the Schuylkill Valley Youth Baseball Association concession stand. Northern Berks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,16424,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-303272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-leesport","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-pennsylvania","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-top-stories-reg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303272","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=303272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}