{"id":13584,"date":"2013-01-31T09:23:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T14:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=13584"},"modified":"2013-01-31T09:23:44","modified_gmt":"2013-01-31T14:23:44","slug":"state-police-warn-of-residential-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=13584","title":{"rendered":"State police warn of residential thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><em><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Troopers warning residents to lock cars in driveways, keep an eye out for suspicious behavior<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\"><strong>By Kelli Siehl<\/strong>, <span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><em>Staff Writer, The Times<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_13585\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CPLSteveRanck.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13585\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13585\" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"CPLSteveRanck\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/CPLSteveRanck-300x269.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cpl. Steve Ranck of the State Police addresses residents Monday night in Pocopson, advising them to lock cars in driveways to prevent thefts.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>POCOPSON \u2014 During Monday\u2019s township Board of Supervisors\u2019 meeting, State Police Corporal, Steve Ranck from the Avondale Barracks, advised residents to lock car doors at all times and to remove valuables from their vehicles, especially electronic devices such as laptop computers and GPS units.<\/p>\n<p>Ranck, a native of Chester County, who has been a State Trooper for 22 years &#8211; 21 of them spent patrolling Chester County roads \u2013 said \u201cit doesn\u2019t matter how rural the area is or if it\u2019s in your own driveway,\u201d cars should always be locked, especially during night time hours.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition, he noted three things residents can do to thwart daytime burglaries when thieves are looking to break into homes looking for jewelry, electronics and cash:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Trim landscape shrubbery to below window height to deter anyone from hiding behind plants and prying open windows.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLook out for each other\u201d by organizing Neighborhood Watch groups.<\/li>\n<li>Call 911 if you see any strange vehicles in the area as they may be scouting the neighborhood in search of properties to burglarize.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Theft of scrap metal is on the rise, according to Ranck, and thieves are going right onto residents\u2019 yards in broad daylight, taking materials and then selling the scrap for quick cash.<\/p>\n<p>Supervisors\u2019 Vice-Chair, Georgia Brutscher inquired about the township\u2019s high number of false residential burglar alarms, \u201cis there anything the township can do to decrease the number as it is a terrible waste of police services?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ranck told the supervisors that according to state law, residents could receive a citation if there are more than three false alarms within a 12 month period.<\/p>\n<p>Ranck\u2019s advice to residents, though, if you have a false alarm, get in touch with your security company right away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have a false alarm and the company calls you \u2013 if the alarm is canceled before police arrive, you are not held responsible,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troopers warning residents to lock cars in driveways, keep an eye out for suspicious behavior By Kelli Siehl, Staff Writer, The Times POCOPSON \u2014 During Monday\u2019s township Board of Supervisors\u2019 meeting, State Police Corporal, Steve Ranck from the Avondale Barracks, advised residents to lock car doors at all times and to remove valuables from their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[2597,606,685,10,563],"class_list":["post-13584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-alarm-systems","tag-board-of-supervisors","tag-crime","tag-pocopson","tag-state-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}