Burglary
July 26 -- At about 3:45 a.m., closed-circuit television cameras captured a man breaking into the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity house at 219 South 36th St. West Philadelphia resident Wendell Porter is being charged with burglary and related offenses.
July 26 -- University police arrested 48-year-old Southwest Philadelphia resident Robert Brown for the July 22 burglary of a house on the 4000 block of Pine Street.
July 21 -- Harold Berry -- a 43-year-old West Philadelphia resident -- was arrested by Penn Police for the burglary of a fraternity house on the 3700 block of Locust Walk on July 16. He is being charged with burglary and related offenses.
Theft
July 25 -- Between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., the Sony laptop computer of a 21-year-old male student was taken from an unlocked room in David Rittenhouse Laboratory. The computer is valued at $3,000.
July 25 -- Officials from Campus Apartments on the 4200 block of Walnut Street reported that between July 23 at 5 p.m. and noon on July 25 the lock on the laundry-room change box was broken and an unknown amount of change was stolen.
July 25 -- A tan Schwinn mountain bike valued at $600 was stolen from a porch on the 4000 block of Pine Street between July 23 at 5 p.m. and July 25 at 4 p.m.
July 25 -- A Penn Tower employee saw a man rummaging through his vehicle, which was parked in a garage on the 300 block of South 33rd Street. Two dollars in change was taken from the unsecured vehicle. The suspect, who fled, is a black male in his 30s, about six feet tall and very thin. He was wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans and a blue bag over his shoulder.
July 22 -- A female University employee reported that her car was broken into while parked in a lot on the 3200 block of South Street. Between 8:30 a.m. and 2 p.m., the passenger-side window was broken, and a GPS system and 20 CDs -- valued together at $1,400 -- were stolen.
All information was obtained from the University Police logbook.
-- Marissa Montenegro
