Crime & Safety

Cactus, Tools Stolen from Whitemarsh Business, Police Say

Employees saw maintenance men with the items; they were returned, and allegedly taken again.

 

A Whitemarsh business reported $320 in items, including a cactus, stolen from its East Hector Street Business while in the process of moving, according to the Whitemarsh Township Police Department.

An employee of SMGI of Philadelphia, located at 1100 E Hector Street, called police after a tool set and the cactus went missing on March 20 around 6 p.m.

Find out what's happening in Plymouth-Whitemarshfor free with the latest updates from Patch.

According to the employee, the business was in the process of moving to another location in Conshohocken. On March 18, the employee found building maintenance men with a tool box and cactus, who said they thought the business had been vacated and those items were left behind, police say.

The employee instructed the men that the business had until the end of the month to vacate the suite, and the men returned the items, according to police.

Find out what's happening in Plymouth-Whitemarshfor free with the latest updates from Patch.

Several days later, but prior to the end of the month, Callahan found the door to the suite broken and the same items missing, police said.

 

Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.