{"id":3857,"date":"2014-01-13T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=3857"},"modified":"2014-01-13T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-13T21:38:26","slug":"door-to-door-solicitor-accused-of-stealing-wallet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=3857","title":{"rendered":"Door-to-door solicitor accused of stealing wallet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Man selling energy services in East Goshen taken into custody<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3864\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hakeen-Jamall-Lemar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3864\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3864 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"Hakeem Lemar faces theft \" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hakeen-Jamall-Lemar-300x286.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hakeen-Jamall-Lemar-300x286.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Hakeen-Jamall-Lemar.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3864\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hakeem J. Lemar faces theft charges in Chester County, Westtown-East Goshen Township Regional Police said.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A 22-year-old Philadelphia man soliciting energy service in East Goshen Township is in custody, accused of stealing a resident\u2019s wallet, said Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they responded to an apartment in the unit block of Mary Fran Drive on Jan. 7, at 6:04 p.m., after a resident reported that his wallet was missing from the living room after a solicitor stopped at his residence and offered to sell him better electric energy.\u00a0 The victim told police that he allowed the solicitor into his residence and went to a bedroom to retrieve an old PECO bill for the solicitor to review, police said.<\/p>\n<p>When the solicitor left the apartment, the victim immediately realized the wallet was missing and called police, who canvassed the area, police said. Officers located two men in the area of the apartment complex with documents related to Washington Gas Energy Services, police said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Police said they determined that Hakeem J. Lemar was the person who had visited the victim\u2019s home.\u00a0 Lemar denied taking the wallet and a search showed that Lemar was not in possession of it, police said. However,\u00a0 police said they determined that Lemar was wanted by the Abington Police Department for forgery and theft charges, and he was arrested and transported to the station.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives were able to canvass the area around the victim\u2019s residence and located the stolen wallet, minus the $203 in U.S. currency it had contained, police said, adding that Lemar had $203 in his possession. Police said the men worked for an agency hired by Washington to do door-to-door soliciting; however, they did not have a permit to canvass in East Goshen Township, and citations will be issued for the ordinance violation.<\/p>\n<p>Westtown-East Goshen Police said they filed a detainer so that Lemar will be returned to Chester County after he is processed on his Montgomery County charges.\u00a0An investigation is continuing to\u00a0determine if there are additional victims, police said. Anyone with information should call 610-692-9600, police said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man selling energy services in East Goshen taken into custody A 22-year-old Philadelphia man soliciting energy service in East Goshen Township is in custody, accused of stealing a resident\u2019s wallet, said Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police. Police said they responded to an apartment in the unit block of Mary Fran Drive on Jan. 7, at 6:04 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[2581,658],"class_list":["post-3857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized","tag-washington-gas-energy-services","tag-westtown-east-goshen-regional-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857","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=3857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}