{"id":14969,"date":"2016-05-25T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=14969"},"modified":"2016-05-25T12:38:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T16:38:59","slug":"police-seek-info-on-city-break-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=14969","title":{"rendered":"Police seek info on city break in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-652\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/PoliceTape-2-300x264.jpg\" alt=\"PoliceTape\" width=\"300\" height=\"264\" \/>COATESVILLE \u2014 Police are seeking information about a burglary that was apparently stopped in the middle when a city homeowner returned to her Walnut Street home, Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a woman reported returning home after taking her children to school just after 9 a.m. Wednesday and discovered a man in her home. The woman reportedly told police that the man grabbed her by the throat and attempted to choke her. The assailant is described as about 5-foot-6, 150 pounds and a light complexioned black male.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The victim told police she thought there was more than one person in her home. No injuries were reported, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone who might have more information about the incident to contact Corporal Shawn Dowds of the<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>City of Coatesville<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Police<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Department at 610-384-2300.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Anonymous tips can be submitted via the department&#8217;s Tip411 System &#8220;Tips by Text&#8221;, the Tip Line, or Tip E-mail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\">Anonymous tips can be submitted through the department&#8217;s\u00a0Tip411 system by texting the keyword &#8220;Coatesville&#8221; and the tip information to 847411. The patrol supervisor will receive the tip information and be able to communicate via text message. This communication is completely anonymous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\">The department&#8217;s\u00a0anonymous Tip Line is 610-380-1830. Tipsters can leave their information anonymously in a voice<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>mail box. Tipsters can also choose to provide their name and number, so a Detective can follow up with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p8\">Tips can also be sent via e-mail to<span class=\"s1\">\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:citytips@coatesville.org\"><span class=\"s2\">cityti<\/span><\/a><a href=\"mailto:ps@coatesville.org\"><span class=\"s2\">ps@coatesville.org<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COATESVILLE \u2014 Police are seeking information about a burglary that was apparently stopped in the middle when a city homeowner returned to her Walnut Street home, Wednesday. Police said a woman reported returning home after taking her children to school just after 9 a.m. Wednesday and discovered a man in her home. The woman reportedly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[7444,185,6269,488],"class_list":["post-14969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-break-in","tag-coatesville","tag-featured","tag-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14970,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14969\/revisions\/14970"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}