Police Log: Burglary in Albidale, $3K Fraud and Old Syringes Found

December 31 – Vandalism

• 3500 block of Meadowlark Drive

Paul Park, 75, of Huntingdon Valley, reported that unknown actors drove a car across his front lawn and over a part of his neighbor’s lawn. The tire marks were first noticed on Friday, Dec. 30. The tire tracks snake across Park’s front lawn  and made muddy tracks.

December 31 – Fraud

• 3500 block of Reading Way

Brendan O’Connell, 38, of Huntingdon Valley, reported that $3,216.27 had been missing from his joint bank account with the Police and Federal Credit Union. O’Connell is still in possession of the card, however, he discovered that someone has been withdrawing money on a daily basis from the Dominican Republic since Dec. 14.

December 30 – Suspicious Persons, Autos, Circumstances

• Area of Lieberman Drive

An LMPD officer responded to Lieberman Dr. at 2:39 p.m. behind the Huntingdon Valley Post Office to meet with the Department of Public Works employees who had discovered a plastic bag containing syringes while doing work on sewers. The officer saw a clear plastic zip top baggie containing three old, large syringes. All three syringes had needled attached with safety caps. They were 50 mL, 8.4% Sodium Bicarbonate Injection, USP.

An Internet check revealed these syringes are used mainly by medical facilities in the treatment of severe renal disease and other acute medical problems. All three syringes appear to be empty and have an expiration date of 5/90. The bag was dirty and appeared to be sitting there for a long period of time.

December 27 – Theft

• Multi-Flow, 1432 County Line Rd.

Tanishia Lawson, 31, of Morton, had $62 cash stolen from her top right drawer at Multi-Flow on County Line Rd. She had been collecting small amounts of cash for an upcoming luncheon. There were two other reports of a cash theft from Multi-Flow in recent weeks. Employees have requested to move forward with an investigation.

December 26 – Burglary – Forced Entry

• 3500 block of Corn Crib

Police responded to a burglary in process at 3:43 p.m. at the home of Debra Tsarfati, 56, of Huntingdon Valley. Tsarfati pulled up to her driveway and saw a blue sedan in her driveway. When she approached the car, she saw a male sitting on a cell phone in the driver’s seat. Moments later she saw two males walk out from behind her house towards the car. Tsarfati was asking the male driver questions and one of the males who walked up from behind the house said, “It’s an investigation.”

The two males got in the sedan and drove off through Albidale. The male who spoke to Tsarfati was described as a white male in his early 30’s. She said he was holding something in his right hand, which she feared was a gun.

After the males left her property, Tsarfati inspected the back of her house and found the rear door had the glass smashed in by an orange/tan landscaping type of rock. Ransacking was evident in each room of the house, and her bedroom TV had been removed from the bedroom and left on the kitchen floor. A DVD player had been removed from the dining room area and left on the couch in the living room. Jewelry boxes and containers in all three second-floor bedrooms and been dumped open.

Tire marks were left by the actor’s car on the rear lawn and police also collected cigarette butts that were left behind as evidence.