Crime & Safety
Police Blotter: Public Drunkenness, Burglary and Theft
Police reported last week's crimes Monday afternoon.
Lower Merion Township police reported last week's crimes and incidents Monday afternoon, May 9, in a weekly briefing to news media.
Theft: A theft was reported at Rosemont College’s Kaul Hall. Sometime between May 1 and 2, an iPod Touch, credit cards and $10 in cash were reported missing from a student’s room, police said.
Public drunkenness: Sean Langschwager, 42, of the 600 block of Williamson Road in Gladwyne, was arrested twice in the same day on May 2 for public intoxication, police said. Langschwager was found lying in a parking lot on the 500 block of Lancaster Avenue in Bryn Mawr at 1:41 a.m. that morning. Police said he registered a .31 on a preliminary breath test before being transported to a hospital for treatment, where he was cited with public drunkenness and released. That evening, he was found in the alleyway of Roach & O’Brian’s bar in Rosemont at about 10:30 p.m. He was again taken into custody and cited with public drunkenness, police said.
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Public drunkenness: Andrew Zoeller, 20, of the unit block of East Gate Drive in Phoenixville, was arrested and charged with underage drinking, public intoxication, disorderly conduct and possession of a fake ID early in the morning of May 5, police said. Zoeller was observed by police at 2:11 a.m. running across Warner Avenue in Bryn Mawr to Public Parking Lot 8, where the suspect ducked behind a red parking truck, police said. When an officer stopped, the suspect again ran and was then apprehended.
Public drunkenness: Michael Martinoli, 21, of Darien, Conn., was arrested at 2:42 a.m. May 6 on the 1000 block of Lancaster Avenue in Bryn Mawr and cited with public drunkenness after he was observed on a front stoop in a condition where he was deemed a danger to himself, police said. Martinoli registered a .20 on a preliminary breath test, police said.
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Burglary: Police said more than $100,000 in jewelry, cash and electronics (a laptop computer and an iPad) were stolen from a house on the 900 block of Waverly Road in Gladwyne, sometime between 7 a.m. and 1 p.m. on May 6. The homeowner had left a door unlocked, police said.
Burglary: On May 7, a home on the 500 block of Spring Mill Road in Villanova was broken into through side doors that had been forced open., police said. Though a second-floor bedroom was ransacked, nothing was reported missing, police said.
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