Police Blotter: Thefts by Day, Public Drunkenness by Night

On Monday afternoon,  reported to news media the following incidents from the past week in Ardmore, Merion and Wynnewood:

A 21-year-old man from Madison, N.J. was arrested shortly before 2 a.m. on Feb. 2 after an officer observed him being almost hit by a bus on Lancaster Avenue in Ardmore.

James McMahon was then Tasered after he started fighting with officers who tried to take him into custody, police said. McMahon was brought back to police headquarters where he was cited with public drunkenness, but not disorderly conduct.

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A 40-year-old Ardmore man from the 300 block of W. Spring Avenue was arrested at about 8 p.m. on Feb. 1 and charged with public drunkenness after he was discovered unsteady on his feet as he attempted to cross the street at Lancaster Avenue and Haverford Station. The man was taken to Bryn Mawr Hospital and determined to have a 0.16 blood-alcohol level.

Theft

A man in a red Ford Explorer stopped at an active construction site at City Avenue and Haverford Road in Penn Wynne late on the morning of Jan. 31, got out, picked up a crew member’s DeWalt cordless drill—and promptly drove away with it, police said. He was last seen driving north on City Avenue, and no description of the man was provided. The drill was valued at $125.

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Reported on Jan. 31 and likely occurring within the two weeks prior to that, copper downspouts were stolen from a home on the 100 block of E. Wynnewood Road in Wynnewood, police said.