Unfortunately, there has been another breaking and entering incident near 50th street. We reported yesterday about the home invasion on 50th street between Walnut and Locust (read more here), when three armed men wearing masks broke into a home on Tuesday early morning, tied up four people – a man and three women – and stole cash, computers and a car.
A West Philly Local reader reports that her house located on Cedar Avenue between 50th and 51st streets was broken into on Monday night, sometime before midnight, when no one was home. She says that windows were opened with a crowbar and the whole house was ransacked – the thief went through everyone’s drawers and closets.
Two bikes (a green trek hybrid with cruiser handlebars, and a no name road bike with gold and leopard paint) and two computers were stolen (one desktop iMac, one white PowerBook).
According to police, this burglary and the home invasion, which was a targeted attack, are not related.
September 25th, 2013 at 10:26 am
Ugh, so awful. It seems like the break-ins have been increasing lately.
By targeted, does that mean that the home invasion drug related? I only ask because there is a presence in the neighborhood…
September 25th, 2013 at 11:04 am
yeah, the other invasion smelled like stick-up boys going after a drug house but taking computers and cars is a different thing unless there wasn’t a package of drugs there.
September 25th, 2013 at 11:35 am
what floor did they break in on?