Police Blotter: 2 Retail Thefts, Attempted Burglary

Retail Theft: Loss prevention officials at Genuardi’s observed a woman filling a shopping cart with groceries and proceeding to a self check-out lane about 3:39 p.m. May 29, police said. The woman then scanned two items and placed the rest of the items in a bag, police said. The items the woman failed to pay for totaled $138.67, police said. A 42-year-old woman of the 6100 block of City Avenue in Philadelphia was charged with retail theft, police said.

Public Drunkenness: Police responded to the unit block of Llanfair Road in Ardmore about 11:19 p.m. May 29 on a report of a suspicious person banging on a door. Police said they found a woman yelling on the phone outside of an apartment building, banging on the door. A 43-year-old woman from the unit block of Llanfair Road was charged with public drunkenness and disorderly conduct.

Attempted Burglary: Sometime overnight from May 29 to May 30, someone attempted to get into a home on the unit block of Blancoyd Road in Merion Station through a kitchen window, police said. Someone moved the flower box out of the windowsill on the outside and had moved items off the windowsill on the inside as well, police said. It appears entry was not made, police said.

Retail Theft: An Apple iPhone was stolen from the Verizon Wireless store in Ardmore sometime between 4:45 and 6:30 p.m. May 30, police said. Someone used an unknown item to remove the phone from security devices, police said. The Apple iPhone 4S was valued at $649, police said.

Theft: An iPhone was reported stolen from Greenfield Avenue from a victim’s vehicle while the victim was shopping in the area on June 2, police said. The victim used GPS to track the phone, which was eventually tracked to DSW Shoes. A person in the area said he had the iPhone, which he said he found on West Spring Avenue, police said. The iPhone had a shattered screen, and the man who claimed to have found the phone was not charged, police said.