Cumru Township police arrested a Flying Hills man they said was caught trespassing with a backpack filled with cutting tools on an abandoned Route 10 property that has been the recent target of telecommunications cable thefts.<\/p>\n
Cody G. Heim, 35, of the first block of Doral Drive was charged with possessing an instruments of crime, loitering and prowling at nighttime, and defiant trespassing.<\/p>\n
He was committed to Berks County Jail in lieu of $10,000 bail following arraignment Sunday before District Judge F. Richard Drumheller in Reading Central Court. A preliminary hearing is pending.<\/p>\n
According to court records:<\/p>\n
Shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday, Officer Leon Grim was driving on Morgantown Road south of Route 724 when he noticed a moped parked behind the iron gate of the driveway leading to the residence.<\/p>\n
Grim knew the property had been abandoned for several years and had been the site of previous break-ins, as well as recent thefts of Verizon cable for its copper-wire content. According to the officer, thieves often cut the cable, extract the copper and sell it to metal recycling businesses.<\/p>\n
Grim pulled into the access road and used his patrol vehicle\u2019s spotlight to illuminate the moped. Moments later, Heim emerged from around a corner of the residence and walked toward the officer.<\/p>\n
The property\u2019s no-trespassing sign had been ripped from the gate and was lying on the ground in front of it, but remained clearly visible to anyone approaching the property, police said.<\/p>\n
A search of Heim\u2019s backpack uncovered numerous tools commonly used to cut cables and wire, including a cordless copper-tubing saw, battery-powered shears, wire snips, and a safety respirator and mask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cumru Township police arrested a Flying Hills man they said was caught trespassing with a backpack filled with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,202,6512,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-316173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-cumru-township","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\/316173","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=316173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}