Crime & Safety

Police Blotter: $200,000 in Jewelry Stolen from Villanova House As Owner Runs Errands

The victim was away from home less than an hour, Lower Merion police said.

Watches, necklaces and earrings worth a combined $200,000 disappeared from a Villanova house while their owner ran errands for less than an hour on the afternoon of Monday, May 23, police said Tuesday.

The burglar or burglars broke a window to enter the house on the 1300 block of Arrowmink Road after the owner left about 1:45 p.m. and before she returned about 2:35 p.m., police said. No alarm went off.

This was the latest in a string of burglaries that to residents late last week.

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In other Bryn Mawr-Gladwyne Patch police activity from the past week:

  • A shopper at  on Lancaster Avenue had money and a BlackBerry phone taken from her purse between 3 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. May 23. No arrests were made.
  • Fifty copper "snow guard" fixtures, worth a combined $2,000, were stolen from a building on the 1000 block of Spring Mill Road overnight May 25 to May 26, police said. The items were to be attached to the roof to prevent large contiguous ice sheets from forming in the winter.
  • Jonathan Juricic, 21, of the 800 block of Lancaster Avenue in Bryn Mawr was cited for public intoxication about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, May 29, police said. He was taken from the alley next to , two blocks away, to for treatment.

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