Burglary Attempts on Spring Avenue, Police Say

Several men were spotted trying to gain entry into homes on Spring Avenue in Ardmore Sunday afternoon, Lower Merion police said at a Monday briefing.

Police responded to the unit block of E Spring Ave. on March 24 on report of a burglary in progress. The caller observed two or three men at the site, but had difficulty providing police more information due to a language barrier, according to the police report.

Police found the front door of a Spring Avenue apartment pried open, but the apartment is currently unoccupied, and nothing was taken.

While conducting a neighborhood canvas in the area of the above burglary, police met with a complainant on the same block, who told police that at 1:40 p.m., he was asleep in his apartment’s back bedroom when he was woken by a man cutting the screen to his window with a screwdriver, police said.

Upon seeing the complainant, the man jumped off the attached shed and started running toward a second man waiting on Lippincott Avenue. The complainant described the man as a Hispanic male wearing a black baseball cap and a blue shirt, according to the police report.

Anyone with information about these incidents can contact Lower Merion police at their non-emergency number: 610-649-1000.