State police from Reading recovered a stolen Harley-Davidson motorcycle over the weekend and arrested a Berks County man they said was riding it on Pricetown Road in Alsace Township.<\/p>\n
According to court records:<\/p>\n
While on patrol about 6:30 p.m. Saturday, Trooper Nathaniel Penko saw the motorcycle traveling west on Pricetown Road near Woodside Avenue. A law enforcement database showed the vehicle was reported as stolen.<\/p>\n
The rider was wearing a bandanna that covered his face.<\/p>\n
Penko followed the motorcycle, which pulled into a convenience store. The rider, later identified as Jeremy M. Brooks, 42, of the 500 block of State Street, Mertztown, walked into the store.<\/p>\n
The trooper made contact with Brooks inside the store and asked if he had been driving a motorcycle. Penko said he \u201cmay have been.\u201d He said he bought it on Facebook Marketplace, an internet classified site, for $5,000.<\/p>\n
He said he had neither the title nor bill of sale for the motorcycle.<\/p>\n
Brooks was taken into custody. While searching him, a plastic bag containing crystal meth was found in his backpack. Penko also found a drug-smoking pipe in Brooks\u2019 pants pocket.<\/p>\n
He was charged with receiving stolen property, possessing a controlled substance, possessing drug paraphernalia and driving under a suspended license.<\/p>\n
Brooks was free to await hearing following arraignment before District Judge Priscilla Campos in Reading Central Court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"State police from Reading recovered a stolen Harley-Davidson motorcycle over the weekend and arrested a Berks County man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7673,349,202,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":["post-9253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-alsace-township","tag-berks-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","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\/9253","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=9253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}