More Than $575 in Soap Stolen From Pharmacy, Police Say

The following information is provided by the Lower Merion Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, they do not indicate guilt or a convction.

Over $577 in soap products were stolen from the Bala Cynwyd CVS late Tuesday evening, Lower Merion police told news media at a Monday briefing. 

Police responded to the CVS at 12:14 a.m. March 5 on report of a theft in progress. A store clerk told police he saw two bottles of Vaseline cocoa butter lotion in a man's back pocket as he left the store, according to the report.

Surveillance footage showed that two men arrived together at 12:12 a.m. in a red newer model four-door sedan, possibly a Chevrolet Cavalier.

The first man entered the store and began filling up a black plastic bag with soap products, including Dove soap, Caress products, Victoria’s Secret cocoa butter and more. A few minutes later, a second man entered and began shoving items into his jacket and pockets, police said.  

The robbers are described as: a black male wearing blue jeans with worn out knees, a grey hooded sweatshirt with a black hood and writing on the front breast of the shirt, tan workbooks and a black knit cap.  The second man is described as a heavy-set black male with tan jeans, black shoes and black hooded sweatshirt, wearing a blue or black bubble vest, police said.