Police Blotter: Five Charges, Including Assault, for Ardmore Bar Patron

The Lower Merion Police Department's weekly media briefing Monday afternoon included information on the following incidents in the Ardmore-Merion-Wynnewood area:

Police arrested a Springfield man at in Ardmore early Saturday morning and charged him with simple assault, disorderly conduct, public intoxication, recklessly endangering another person and harassment.

Michael Tubens, 26, threw a chair toward a bouncer at about 1:40 a.m., police said, but the chair instead hit an unidentified woman standing nearby, cutting her on the face and requiring her to be treated at Bryn Mawr Hospital. Police did not know her medical condition Monday.

Tubens is being held in lieu of $5,000 bail. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Friday morning in front of Judge Francis J. Bernhardt III in Conshohocken, according to a court document.

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Also, on July 18 an employee at in Wynnewood reported her wallet stolen from her purse while it was in her office that day. Police said the thief charged more than $500 to the victim's credit cards at the Target store in Springfield, Delaware County.