{"id":66085,"date":"2025-12-20T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66085\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T13:10:10","slug":"levittown-man-linked-to-burglaries-across-four-counties-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/66085\/","title":{"rendered":"Levittown Man Linked To Burglaries Across Four Counties, Cops Say"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"\"\"<\/a>Richard Charles Sturts.
Credit: Bensalem Township police<\/p>\n

A Levittown man has been arrested in connection with a multi-county burglary spree after he allegedly used a pickup truck to ram through the front of a local auto service center, according to authorities. <\/p>\n

Richard Charles Sturts, 56, was taken into custody Thursday following an investigation by the Bensalem Township Police Department. <\/p>\n

The 56-year-old man faces charges of burglary, criminal trespass, and related offenses for an incident at Bob Nolan\u2019s Auto Service on Route 13.<\/p>\n

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The investigation began Dec. 2 when Bensalem Township officers responded to the business at 7:26 a.m. for a report of an overnight break-in. <\/p>\n

Surveillance footage from 12:34 a.m. that morning showed a dark Chevrolet Silverado pulling into the parking lot and reversing into the front glass door multiple times until it shattered, police said. <\/p>\n

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According to police, a suspect exited the truck, crawled through the bottom of the broken door and stole the cash register.<\/p>\n

Investigators soon linked the Bensalem Township incident to a string of similar smash-and-grab burglaries across Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester counties. <\/p>\n

In each case, a matching vehicle was used to ram the entrance of the targeted businesses, police said. <\/p>\n

Detectives identified Sturts as the suspect and discovered he was already wanted on outstanding warrants for fleeing and eluding in Warrington Township and a violation of his conditions with the Bucks County Adult Probation and Parole Department.<\/p>\n

Bensalem Township detectives entered the Silverado\u2019s license plate into an automated reader system. <\/p>\n

On Thursday, the system alerted officers that the vehicle was moving through the township, police said. <\/p>\n

Patrol units located the unoccupied truck near the Cornwells Train Station Park and Ride on Station Avenue and apprehended Sturts on foot nearby, police said. <\/p>\n

During an interview at police headquarters, Sturts admitted to driving the Silverado during the burglary at the Bensalem Township shop and several other businesses in the region, authorities said, police said. <\/p>\n

Sturts was arraigned before District Judge Mark Douple, who set bail at 10 percent of $150,000. He was remanded to the Bucks County Correctional Facility..<\/p>\n

Bensalem Township police said additional charges from other jurisdictions are forthcoming. <\/p>\n

Bensalem Township investigators credited the Tredyffrin Township Police Department for their assistance in the investigation.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s Note:\u00a0All individuals arrested or charged with a crime are presumed innocent until proven guilty. The story was compiled using information from police and public court documents.<\/p>\n

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Tom Sofield<\/a><\/p>\n

Tom Sofield has covered news in Bucks County for 12 years for both newspaper and online publications. Tom\u2019s reporting has appeared locally, nationally, and internationally across several mediums. He is proud to report on news in the county where he lives and to have created a reliable publication that the community deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Charles Sturts.Credit: Bensalem Township police A Levittown man has been arrested in connection with a multi-county burglary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[191,193,192,194],"class_list":["post-66085","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\/66085","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=66085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}