\n\t\t\t\t\t\tPittsburgh Police detectives need the public\u2019s help identifying a man accused of burglarizing a Squirrel Hill home on Saturday afternoon. According to police, a man broke into a home on the 1600 block of Beechwood Boulevard around 1:30 pm and stole a large sum of cash. The suspect is pictured wearing a mask and a neon vest. Two teens were home when the incident happened, police said. The suspect allegedly took a school ID belonging to one of the teens and threatened them if they told police about what happened. \u201cThe kid was traumatized. Everybody on the block heard about it pretty quickly,\u201d Chuck Gordon told Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4 reporter Jordan Cioppa. Gordon lives a few doors down from where the invasion occurred. Though it\u2019s not confirmed by police, he said the parents left the house shortly before the suspect got in with a crowbar. “You start thinking security cameras. What’s going on in the neighborhood?\u201d Gordon said. \u201cI have to say it\u2019s rare here. Crime can happen anywhere.”Like the masked man in a photo, Gordon said over the last few weeks, multiple people have been seen on camera walking up driveways in the neighborhood with their faces covered. “And that’s really disturbing,\u201d Gordon said. Nina Hoyt, another Beechwood Boulevard resident, said there was a break-in in the unit below hers about a year ago. \u201cHearing about that kind of stresses me out because I want to feel comfortable in my own house, or that my neighbors are comfortable,\u201d Hoyt said upon learning about the most recent invasion. After Saturday’s scare, security measures are top of mind for neighbors. “The reality is that if you don’t take it seriously, you could be the next victim,\u201d Gordon said. Police said the suspect was \u201cwearing a black tassel cap, black peacoat, khaki pants and carrying a black shopping bag with red handles and a heart-shaped logo on it.\u201d He was last seen in the driveway of the home before heading towards Aylesboro Avenue. Anyone with information should call 412-422-6520 and ask for plainclothes detectives.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\tPITTSBURGH \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Pittsburgh Police detectives need the public\u2019s help identifying a man accused of burglarizing a Squirrel Hill home on Saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n
According to police, a man broke into a home on the 1600 block of Beechwood Boulevard around 1:30 pm and stole a large sum of cash. <\/p>\n
The suspect is pictured wearing a mask and a neon vest. <\/p>\n
Two teens were home when the incident happened, police said. The suspect allegedly took a school ID belonging to one of the teens and threatened them if they told police about what happened. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe kid was traumatized. Everybody on the block heard about it pretty quickly,\u201d Chuck Gordon told Pittsburgh\u2019s Action News 4 reporter Jordan Cioppa. <\/p>\n
Gordon lives a few doors down from where the invasion occurred. Though it\u2019s not confirmed by police, he said the parents left the house shortly before the suspect got in with a crowbar. <\/p>\n
“You start thinking security cameras. What’s going on in the neighborhood?\u201d Gordon said. \u201cI have to say it\u2019s rare here. Crime can happen anywhere.”<\/p>\n
Like the masked man in a photo, Gordon said over the last few weeks, multiple people have been seen on camera walking up driveways in the neighborhood with their faces covered. <\/p>\n
“And that’s really disturbing,\u201d Gordon said. <\/p>\n
Nina Hoyt, another Beechwood Boulevard resident, said there was a break-in in the unit below hers about a year ago. <\/p>\n
\u201cHearing about that kind of stresses me out because I want to feel comfortable in my own house, or that my neighbors are comfortable,\u201d Hoyt said upon learning about the most recent invasion. <\/p>\n
After Saturday’s scare, security measures are top of mind for neighbors. <\/p>\n
“The reality is that if you don’t take it seriously, you could be the next victim,\u201d Gordon said. <\/p>\n
Police said the suspect was \u201cwearing a black tassel cap, black peacoat, khaki pants and carrying a black shopping bag with red handles and a heart-shaped logo on it.\u201d <\/p>\n
He was last seen in the driveway of the home before heading towards Aylesboro Avenue. <\/p>\n
Anyone with information should call 412-422-6520 and ask for plainclothes detectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pittsburgh Police detectives need the public\u2019s help identifying a man accused of burglarizing a Squirrel Hill home on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[900,21459,2586,29793,28000,29797,1399,19184,8969,73,75,74,745,206,29795,29796,29794,450],"class_list":{"0":"post-52702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-action-news","9":"tag-beechwood-boulevard","10":"tag-block","11":"tag-chuck-gordon","12":"tag-driveway","13":"tag-invasion","14":"tag-man","15":"tag-neighbor","16":"tag-neighborhood","17":"tag-pittsburgh","18":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","19":"tag-pittsburgh-news","20":"tag-pittsburgh-police","21":"tag-police","22":"tag-saturday-afternoon","23":"tag-security-camera","24":"tag-squirrel-hill-home","25":"tag-suspect"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52702","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=52702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}