Law enforcement officials in Philadelphia have released surveillance footage in the hopes of identifying a man who, police claim, broke into and attempted to burglarize a church in the city’s Chestnut Hill neighborhood on Dec. 20, 2025.<\/p>\n
Police shared video from the incident on social media on Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
According to police, the video was taken around 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 20, 2025, when a man broke into Our Mother of Consolation Church, located along the unit block of East Chestnut Hill Avenue. <\/p>\n
A priest at the church told officers that he was in a bedroom on the second floor above the church when he heard a loud noise and went to investigate, officials said. <\/p>\n
At that time, the priest, who officials didn’t name in a statement on this incident, told responding officers that he saw a man break into the church’s poor box before the individual noticed the priest and fled the scene, according to police. <\/p>\n
The man didn’t escape with anything from the box and he was last seen running north on Germantown Avenue, officials said.<\/p>\n
Police say the man sought in this incident was wearing a red hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans and white sneakers when the crime occurred. <\/p>\n
Law enforcement officials are asking anyone who may have information on this case to contact the Philadelphia Police Department’s Northwest Detective Division at 215-686-3353\/3354 or to contact the department’s tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Law enforcement officials in Philadelphia have released surveillance footage in the hopes of identifying a man who, police…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":480327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,23010,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-480326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-chestnut-hill","10":"tag-pa","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115809285040140714","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}