Police Blotter: Bank Robbed in Lower Merion's Haverford Section

On Monday afternoon, Lower Merion police reported to news media the following  Ardmore-area crimes and incidents from the past week:

Robbery:

Police said a muscular black man in a black jacket and ski goggles, standing from 6 feet 4 inches to 6 feet 6 inches, robbed the Wells Fargo bank in Lower Merion’s Haverford section at gunpoint about 12:50 p.m. Aug. 9. The man was wearing a hooded shirt, white socks and sneakers, and after his verbal threat to a teller, he fled the bank with an undisclosed amount of money.

Theft:

A purse was stolen from a motorist who left it by a gas pump at Cumberland Farms in Wynnewood about 8 p.m. Aug. 8. The purse was soon found behind the building, with $118 cash missing.

About $700 worth of extension ladders and spraypainting equipment was taken from a home on the 200 block of Merion Road in Merion Station between Aug. 6 and Aug. 9.

A purse with credit cards and $300 cash was stolen from the trunk of a Honda Civic the evening of Aug. 10 on Greenfield Avenue in Ardmore, across from Planet Fitness. Police said the trunk had been reported locked but there were no signs of force.

Driving under the influence, public intoxication:

Terrence Phillips, 24, of the 5700 block of Haddington Lane in Philadelphia was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol about 1:15 a.m. Aug. 13, after he was stopped at Bala and Bryn Mawr avenues in Bala Cynwyd, police said. Phillips’ blood alcohol content registered 0.172 in a breath test, police said.

Phillips’ friend Kevin Brown, 25, of the 5600 block of Florence Avenue of Philadelphia was arrested for public intoxication after he came to the police station in Ardmore to pick up Phillips about 3 a.m. Aug. 13, police said.