Police believe could be behind a three county crime spree from bucks to philadelphia to the mainline. Authorities say the man is busting into businesses in the middle of the night and taking whatever he can get his hands on. Good evening, im dawn timmeney in for lucy noland. Im iain page. Detectives are looking at a shrew of crimes. Dave schratwieser has the late latest. Reporter hes a oneman crime spree now being tied to at least nine break ins across a threecounty area, and hes not exactly camera shy having been caught on surveillance cameras multiple times. Something trending in the region. Reporter with crowbar or a claw hammer in hand this thief has broken into businesses from bucks county to philadelphia and on out to the mainline where he was caught on camera dragging a safe from this store in radnor to his mercedes get away car. He comes in and goes straight for the safe. In and out. No time at all. He seems to be professional. Hes not leaving much hyped. Reporter radnor heist
Car. All we all know thats been done before. There is an overpass by the scene but vest gathers have not said whether someone deliberately dropped the dumb bell or if it fell off moving vehicle. What is clear how close the impact was to the driver. He was taken to awaiting chopper that airlifted him from the scene near mile marker six. The elderly man now being treated at Crozer Chester medical center. Crazy. I would think theres probably some somewhere around that has cameras that would pick it up. Theyll fix it out. Reporter drivers say it makes them think about the road ray dangers they have faced. Pebbles coming from mack trucks cracking the wimped shield. Following like that. Reporter makes you wonder when you drive under an overpa overpass. Well tell you in this case moments ago the new Jersey State Police sent out a tweet requesting anyone who was in the area around 7 30 when this happened to give them call if they have any information. Lucy. All right, thank you very much, dave
Member through a hitandrun. Reporter pool has found a positive outlet for the pain caused by the hitandrun that killed her eightyearold daughter jay anna. Shes turning to Public Policy aiming to peace together crimes like the one that claimed her little girl last november. Its been hard. Its been stressful. Painful. Reporter she met up with state leaders after her sister came up with the idea for a system called j alert. Named after her beloved second grader it would act a lot like an amber alert only instead of reporting commission messing children it will zen out rapid word of a hitandrun crash. With jay alert, everyone going to be aware of whats going on, um, they going to have fully detailed description so we can try to catch the suspect and bring a little justice closer to, you know, victims families. This is for the benefit of all pennsylvanians. That a parent, grand parent, aunt, uncle, will feel safer within their community. Reporter her family brought the idea to state senator
To an employees head. People doing their laundry were right there in east mt. Airy. Cops say this exact thing is happening at laundromats across the city. Clearly police want these guys off the streets. Im lucy noland. Im iain page. Laundromats have become prime targets in our city. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser joins us live tonight from northeast detectives in mayfair with new information. Dave . Reporter iain, one investigator told me tonight these thieves are using laundromats like atm machines going for the quick cash. Northeast detectives just locked up two guys for 22 incidents. Now police are looking for three guys armed with gun. Its big business. Reporter when these three men walked into hongs laundromat on chew avenue saturday night they wouldnt looking to do wash or dry their clothes. They were there to rob the place. Immediately approach the owner who is engaged in a conversation with a customer. Announced a robbery. They produced a handgun. Reporter robbery was caught on came
Live from center city in philadelphia this is fox 29 news at 10. Happening right now, a heartbreaking search. Pictures like these show a beautiful eightyearold girl in happier times but tonight her family is mourning her death. She died earlier tonight after being hit by a car. The driver didnt even stop. Good evening, im chris oconnell. Im lucy noland tonight a manhunt is on for that driver. Fox 29s Joanne Pileggi joins us live from university city. Joanne. Reporter lucy, chris, as parent you always worry when your kids are crossing busy streets, and this is why we worry. When Something Like this happe happens. So you can visualize this familys pain. Knowing that someone struck and killed their eightyearold daughter. Didnt stop. Just sped away. Whoever did this, i want you to know that youre causing my family a great deal of pain. Shes the happiest little girl ever. She has manners, always happy, always laughing. In an instant everything changed when eightyearold Jay Anna Powell and h