{"id":2810,"date":"2013-10-24T15:31:24","date_gmt":"2013-10-24T19:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2013-10-24T15:31:24","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T19:31:24","slug":"police-issue-warning-on-knock-knock-burglar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=2810","title":{"rendered":"Police issue warning on \u2018knock-knock\u2019 burglar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Detectives seeking leads on Thornbury Township break-in<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/homeCar1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2811\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"homeCar1\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/homeCar1-300x268.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/homeCar1-300x268.png 300w, https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/homeCar1.png 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department wants area residents to be on the alert for a daytime burglar who hit a home in Thornbury Township on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the thief gained entry into a single-family residence in the 200 block of Greentree Drive between 11:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. by prying open a rear basement door. Electronic devices were stolen from the home, police said.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Detectives developed information that at 12:30 p.m., a young white male wearing a red ball cap knocked at another house in the same block and walked away from the home when dogs started barking inside. They said the man entered a small dark sedan with unknown Delaware registration that had been backed into the driveway, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Westtown-East Goshen police are seeking any information on the individual or the vehicle. Police also urge residents to call 9-1-1 if someone suspicious stops at a home. In prior investigations, police have learned that the intruders will often knock hard on the front door of the home to determine if anyone is inside; once \u00a0intruders determines the home is not occupied, they normally go to a door that is concealed from the street and force entry, police said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detectives seeking leads on Thornbury Township break-in The Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police Department wants area residents to be on the alert for a daytime burglar who hit a home in Thornbury Township on Wednesday. Police said the thief gained entry into a single-family residence in the 200 block of Greentree Drive between 11:30 a.m. and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2034,659],"class_list":["post-2810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-knock-knock-burglary","tag-westtown-east-goshen-regional-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}