Blotter: $3K in Copper Stolen from Construction Site

The following information was supplied by the Springfield Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

Retail Theft—Best Buy at about 8:38 p.m. on Oct. 16. Store security reported that they had a man in custody in connection with a retail theft at the store. Patrolman Dennis McPartland responded and took Amadou Moussa, 38, of Philadelphia into custody and transported him to the Springfield Police Station. Moussa was charged with retail theft and receiving stolen property in connection with taking $299.99 worth of merchandise from the store. Detective James Devaney is handling the investigation.

Retail Theft—T-Mobile Store on the 100 block Baltimore Pike reported that sometime between Oct. 6 and 17 someone stole a Samsung Galaxy mobile phone from the display in the front of the store. The phone was valued at $150.

Theft—new Miller Ale House on unit block of Baltimore Pike at about 8:42 a.m. on Oct. 19. A construction company doing work at the site reported that sometime during the night someone stole 500 feet of copper leads from a welding machine in the building that is under construction. The copper was valued in excess of $3,000.

Retail Theft—Five Below Store on the 900 block of Baltimore Pike between 6 and 6:58 p.m. on Oct. 20. A store employee reported that someone stole her wallet from her pocketbook while it was in the stock room in the rear of the store. The wallet contained various forms of identification, cash and credit cards. The cards were cancelled before they could be used.