Video: Convent break-in suspects

Posted: October 20, 2012

Police are hoping surveillance video will help identify two men believed to be connected to two break-ins in as many nights at Saint Gabriel's Convent in Grays Ferry.

The grainy video was taken on Oct. 17 and 18, and show two men in hoodies shielding their faces, and then the face of one suspect without a hoodie.

Philadelphia police said the pair are responsible for entering the convent on Dickinson Street through an unlocked front window.

In the first incident, at 1:45 a.m. Oct. 17, the thieves snatched $150 in cash from a purse and fled.

Then, at 3:32 a.m., Oct. 18, police received another calling saying an alarm motion sensor was activated at the convent where two thieves had entered through a window and took a set of keys before fleeing.

The video depicts two males walking on the 1500 block of South 29th Street within minutes of both burglaries.

However, identifying features are not clear in the video.

South Detectives are asking anyone with information to either: Call 911; submit a tip by calling 215-686-TIPS (8477); or, text a tip to PPD TIP or 773847.

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