Police Blotter: Manhole Covers Stolen Out of Ardmore Streets

On Monday afternoon, Lower Merion police reported to news media the following incidents from the past week in the Ardmore-Merion-Wynnewood area:

• Theft: Several items were stolen from two purses in a third-floor office in between 6:50 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. April 10, police said. Each was relieved of bank and credit cards, a drivers license and cash. A credit card from one purse was used at the Target on City Avenue.
• Theft: Gold and silver jewelry of unknown value was reported stolen from a home in the in Wynnewood sometime in the six weeks before April 10.
• Theft: Eight sections of copper downspout were reported stolen from the  about 9 a.m. April 10.
• Public intoxication: Schuyler Field, 24, of Queensbury, NY, was cited about 1 a.m. April 12 on the 300 block of West Lancaster Avenue and taken to Lankenau Hospital for treatment.
• DUI: Katherine Familetti, 45, of the 700 block of Ardmore Avenue was charged about 11:30 p.m. April 12 after police stopped a swerving car with no working taillights on Cricket Avenue. Her blood alcohol content was 0.13, police said.
• Theft: Four manhole covers were reported stolen from the 1200 block of Grenox Road about 2:30 p.m. April 13. Each costs about $200, police said, and they were replaced before the manholes caused any accidents.
• Theft: A $1,500 cast-aluminum bench, a replica of one in London's Hyde Park, was reported stolen at 6 p.m. April 13 from the 200 block of North Bowman Avenue in Merion Station.