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WCAU NBC 10 News At 4pm June 22, 2024

From the nbc 10 south Jersey Bureau, real diamonds replaced by fakes. A man entrusted to clean south jersey homes is now wanted after police say he stole jewels from his customers. The suspect is linked to at least two thefts in evesham township burlington county. Nbc 10s drew smith is live in evesham township where he found the man has more than theft allegations against him. Explain what you found out. Reporter it was people in this neighborhood who hired this guy to come clean their windows. When we started looking into his past we found Court Documents detailing arrests dating back two decades. When we looked on the sex offender registry we found his name listed as a tier three offender convicted of rape. Neighbors in this nice evesham township neighborhood are now spreading the word about brandon santabria. I have seen signs advertising for him. Reporter we called the Window Company he worked for which is only saying he is suspended indefinitely. Police tell us he stole 28,000 worth of jewelry from at least two homes less than a quarter mile apart. Its not even the money. Its the sentimental value. Thats what shes most upset about. Its something that cant be replaced. Reporter friends of the victims told us the women were inside the homes when a team came in to wash the windows. This is definitely a wakeup call. She does keep most of her stuff locked away in a safe. Reporter one womans Engagement Ring is gone. The other found hers in a driveway a few days later but it didnt feel right. Police tell us the diamond was swapped out for a fake. Susan told us she stopped using some contractors who made her family feel uncomfortable. She found one sleeping in her bedroom. Strange things do happen. Reporter she says this is a reminder to do your research. Try to get references and the best thing to do is know your neighbors and look out for each other. Reporter police oo are asking anyone who has recently hired window washers and recognizes this man to check around for any missing jewelry. Im drew smith, nbc 10 news. We are still working to get more information about this story. Sky force 10 over grant avenue in northeast philly today after a car crashed into this building. We have calls in to police to see what happened and if anyones hurt here but this did not seem to Impact Business next door there. He fled to philadelphia after allegedly punching and robbing a Police Officer in new york. Now, hes in custody. 19yearold Samuel Thornton charged with assaulting the 41yearold officer and stealing her gun. He was discovered staying with friends at a house in the 4600 block of van kirk street. U. S. Marshals and u. S. Police made the arrest. They say they also recovered that officers gun. Police say the suspect snatched a gold chain from the offduty officer yesterday and demanded her wallet, then allegedly punched her in the face and ran off. She is recovering from cuts and bruises. Today, new Jersey Governor Chris Christie made his first visit to our area as a president ial candidate and spoke on an issue that republicans and democrats both agreed needs to change, our criminal justice system. We need to give people a chance to escape lives of crime and become responsible citizens good parents. His push follows similar pleas from both president obama and former president bill clinton who were in philadelphia this week. South Jersey Bureau reporter cydney long is in camden with more on the changes the governor says he wants to see. Reporter i can tell you governor christie spoke at the Community Center just down the block and before a crowd of invited guests but it is just footsteps away from this park pyne point park where crimes used to be committed and where drug deals were made a place where now children play. Governor christie says it can no longer be about money. Thats wrong. Its wrong that we allow poverty to determine who gets out of jail and who does not. Reporter talk Justice Reform in a crowd of exoffenders and boasting about camdens new Metro Division police force. Christie spoke with conviction and optimism. There is too much talk about crime and too little action on crime. The good news for us is thats not the case in our state, in new jersey. When im president of the United States it will no longer be the case in america. Reporter he reduced the states prison population by 31 by allowing judges to offer bail to light offenders and says he can do the same on the national stage. He signed autographs on baseballs of young people some whose parents are recovered addicts or exoffenders. I think they see they have a gift they get a second chance. Reporter josie is not only a coach for girls softball she doesnt want her alleged brothers killer to get off easily. Someone is looking out for them instead of looking down at them. Instead of settling for jail every time we need to give people the chance to get help instead of jail. Reporter the governor did tell us why he chose the policy speech here in camden. He says because the nosnitch attitude and the homicide rate is changing dramatically but he didnt tell us why he chose today and it comes just two days after president obama delivered his remarks on Justice Reform across the bridge before the naacp membership on wednesday. Im cydney long, nbc 10 news. To another candidate, hillary clinton, and her president ial campaign has returned a contribution from allentowns mayor. It has to do with the fbi raid that happened in allentown city hall and his home a couple weeks ago. Friends of ed pawlowski made a contribution to her campaign on the fifth. He suspended his u. S. Senate campaign after the search saying he wanted to focus on assisting the federal investigation. The sun was shining in philadelphia. We were there as one woman was picking purple peppers. Nice size, too. What a beautiful beach day it is. Cape may jampacked as it should be. All the colorful umbrellas out there. And the good news still nice weather to come before the storms come back. Nbc 10 first alert chief meteorologist glenn hurricane schwartz here with the nbc 10 first alert forecast. What a Beautiful Day. And what a change from what we saw yesterday. Not only with the lack of storms, but the lack of humidity. Lot of blue in that sky. That wind is coming from the north and northeast. Drier air coming in and it is certainly succeeded and is going to stay around. Its up to 82 degrees, the highest so far today. Most of the rest of the area is still in the 70s. Theres the northeast wind flow across the area and we see mostly clear skies. We will keep that for awhile. Watch these temperatures in the future cast hour by hour. We go to 11 00 tonight, we are getting close to 60 Degrees North and west and overnight, 50s. Little bit on the cool side by morning. 54 degrees in allentown at 6 00 a. M. Bits its going to stay dry for awhile. We have beautiful weather on the way tonight. It will cool off a little bit to the north and west. 79 degrees at 6 00 in philadelphia 76 at 8 00 and 72 degrees at 10 00. We do have heat humidity and storms in the weekend forecast. Thats coming up with the seven day in a few minutes. They better not come to my house. Thats what one levittown neighbor told nbc 10 today after another thief struck his community. We told you about this spike in home breakins in falls township more than 60 homes have now been hit since the beginning of the year. Police say though some arrests have been made the burglaries are still happening. They think several groups of criminals are on the loose. Deanna durante is live with more on neighbors understandable concerns. Reporter police asking people tonight if you see a car parked on your street that looks like it doesnt belong, call police. If theres a person in the neighborhood you think is more than just a visitor, call police. They want to know about anything suspicious, especially in neighborhoods like these. Its crazy. You got to keep everything locked up now. Used to having windows cracked at night, that kind of thing. Not anymore. Reporter john says he isnt sure what to do. Police have warned residents in Community Meetings the houses in his levittown neighborhood are still falling prey to thieves. My wife grew up here teenaged years and big difference from then. Reporter now with kids of his own, he worries about the breakins. Some according to police have been during the day, some as people are sleeping and in one case down the street, the burglar was still inside the home when the woman came home from work. David says he saw his neighbor running from her house thinking the intruder was still inside. He called 911. Im surprised. I have been here since 73. I never seen problems over in this area. Reporter again, homes in this neighborhood have been hit three times this summer according to residents, and not far away another home the most recent breakin was tuesday sometime during the day. Residents reported seeing a green car on the street that didnt belong then a homeowner came home to find his home had been burglarized and his guns taken. Police asking for any help in solving these crimes. Deanna durante, nbc 10 news. We hope you had a smoother ride home today than many have this morning. Sky force 10 over two big accidents, made a lot of people late for work today. This one at i76 at route 202 is congested enough on a normal day but this this truck was hauling trash and it flipped over spilling all that garbage all over the road. It kept the road closed for hours. When an accident happens you have to calculate, theres no getting to work on time. It took three hours to clean up all that trash, upright the truck and reopen the road. And a lot of you were stuck in this mess on southbound i95 near the Commodore Barry bridge. A threecar crash right here. There were firefighters on the road trying to clean this one up. New pictures now of a serial bank robber wanted in wilmington. Take a good look. Police and the fbi say the man in these photos is responsible for four Bank Robberies since may. Investigators say hes hit two banks, one of them three times. Police say he wears a hat and glasses and asks tellers to put money into a bag. The fbi is offering a reward for any information. New Information Police now say someone set this home on fire in wilmington on monday. Special crews had to be called in because they were concerned there was ammunition in the home. No one was hurt but theres more than 250,000 worth of damage. You can see just how charred that home is. One wall is gone. Christopher unruh who lives a couple miles away from that home is charged with arson and reckless endangerment. A man charged with killing nine people in a Charleston Church last month was back in court today. Dylann roof was formally indicted on nine counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder. That shooting spree happened last month inside the historic black church. The judge also set a trial date for roof. It will begin in july of next year. New information over the impasse in the Pennsylvania State budget. A house lawmaker from bucks county is floating a middle of the road budget proposal. The representative wants an overall spending increase including more Education Aid and tax increases. They would be lower than increases Governor Wolf is calling for but more than the republican budget bill proposes. There has been a budget stalemate for two weeks. The Philadelphia Housing Authority wants to ban smoking in all public housing. It will be discussed tonight at a meeting and if approved the Housing Authority would be the largest Housing Authority in the country to ban smoking. About 90,000 people live in housing provided by the pha. A Bloomingdales Outlet store will open in Center City Philadelphia in the fall. It will be at the shops at Liberty Place on chestnut street. Its set to open in november. You are invited to an unusual meeting tonight. The issue, whether to allow whole foods to sell beer and wine inside a new store. The store is one of many planned in the Hamilton Crossing Shopping Center. That would be whole foods first store in the lehigh valley. The hearing starts at 7 00 at the township building. It is open to the public. The store wants to sell beer and wine at a restaurant inside the store. It wont be available in grocery aisles. Lot of us glued to our cell phones and sometimes its easier to text rather than call. Thats why salem county Law Enforcement is launching a program where you can actually text tips to police. Its called tip 411. Get this. Police can even text you back. Its an anonymous twoway conversation. Heres how it works. Text key word and message or tip 411 or you can download an app. There is a different key word for each department in the county. We have a list on our website at nbc10. Com. The Philadelphia District attorney holding a walk in philadelphia. This is video of his last walk. Seth williams wants to get out in the community and hear from philadelphians. He wants people to ask him about his office and Services Provided to them. You wont be watching the diverse reality show on tlc anymore. The network dropped the show 19 kids and counting this morning. In may, the story broke that josh duggar was accused of inappropriately touching a number of young girls. Two of them were his sisters. Tlc says its planning a documentary about sex abuse. Two of the duggar sisters are expected to be tonight. Lot of buzz about Caitlyn Jenners speech at the espys last night. She walked onstage in a floor length versace gown to accept the arthur ashe award for courage. Abby wambach presented the award, opening with a joke about how she has never been under so much pressure to find something to wear. Then she made an emotional plea for a better world. Not just about me. Its about all of us accepting one another. We are all different. Thats not a bad thing. Thank you. Generaljenner got a standing ovation after the speech. All ten of her kids were in the crowd to support her. Devin still accepted an award on behalf of his daughter leah. She is fighting cancer and getting treatment at Childrens Hospital of philadelphia. Another familiar face at last nights espys, mone davis won for best breakthrough athlete. What a change in the weather over the last 24 hours. We will see some big changes as we head toward the weekend, too. We have two beauties today and tomorrow. This gorgeous weather for most of us but a heat wave is coming for those of us who like hot, humid weather. Thats coming too. And some weekend thunderstorms although it is nowhere near a washout. We have a lot of sunshine today. The visibility is excellent. 82 degrees. The wind is light out of the east now and the humidity is pretty low for july. Whats going to happen here as we go through the weekend, it will get a little warmer tomorrow but then the potential heat wave close to 90 on saturday the hottest day may very well be sunday. It could feel like its 103. Were talking about some really significant heat on the way and even monday pretty hot day, too. Next week not exactly cool. Temperatures in the upper 70s to low 80s. 76 degrees in mt. Pocono. Little bit cooler at the beaches and that northeast winds the reason. 75 in beach haven right now. 71 in lewes delaware. The currents were kind of rough today but they may actually be calming down over the next couple days. Lot of sunshine as you can see across the area. High pressure right on top of us. Usually happens that way. Then as the high moves offshore the southerly winds come in start to warm us up. Warm up a little tomorrow and we could see light showers around as early as tomorrow night. Then on saturday little more moisture builds up and we get some showers and storms. You dont see a whole lot of green there or yellow indicating heavier precipitation. Im not real concerned about saturday and definitely not concerned about precipitation on sunday. Its just going to be hazy hot and humid and some of you will be hoping for thunderstorms by sunday afternoon. It is really going to be hot. You can escape the heat by going to the shore on saturday. Near 80 degrees, going to be a sea breeze there, just a slight chance of a thunderstorm. On sunday little bit more of a land breeze so it should be hotter and just inland it may be 90. Right at the beach, 86 and probably no rain across the area on sunday. The poconos have the best chance of thunderstorms on saturday. Temperature down a little bit but goes back up on sunday. We will see that heat build up its plenty hot in the middle of the country and you get the right wind direction and it starts coming this way, and its just a question of just how hot it is going to get. For tonight, its cool for july. 65 degrees for a low in philadelphia, 57 north and west. Some places could get a little cooler than that. Sunny and really comfortable tomorrow. Its kind of warm 85 degrees or so but the humidity is so low, it wont feel uncomfortable. Seven day forecast it will feel uncomfortable over the weekend for most folks. 91 degrees on saturday feeling like 95. Chance of a thunderstorm. Sunday, 96 feeling like 103 and probably no thunderstorms, either. Thunderstorms most likely on monday and we could be close to the 90 degree mark for much of next week. We have new information about that shooting in chattanooga we told you about at the top of the newscast left four u. S. Marines dead. Right now, nbcs Pete Williams has confirmed the gunman is a naturalized u. S. Citizen from kuwait. The shootings happened in two buildings in chattanooga today. The suspect is dead. We dont know exactly how he died. A soldier and Police Officer were also hurt in these shootings. Coun

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