Police Blotter: Belmont Hills Woman Cited for Sunday Morning Loudness

On Monday afternoon,  reported to news media the following incidents from the past week:

• Retail theft: A black man in his late 30s tried to steal $2,300 worth of Lacoste shirts from on City Avenue about 5:45 p.m. Saturday, police said. The man ran from the store holding three piles of shirts, which he dropped before he reached his car on the north side of the building and drove away.
• Burglary: Jewelry was taken from a home on the 100 block of Union Avenue in Bala Cynwyd before 7:20 p.m. Saturday, police said. The front door had been forced open.
• Public intoxication: After a taxi driver flagged down police at City and Belmont avenues about 2:15 a.m. Sunday, passenger Drew Gerhart, 24, of Richboro, PA, was charged with public intoxication. An ambulance was called, but it was determined Gerhart, who had been unconscious in the taxi, needed no medical assistance, police said.
• Disorderly conduct: Magdalene Dressel, 41, was cited about 9:10 a.m. Sunday at her home on the 100 block of Jefferson Street in Belmont Hills. Police said Dressel was talking loudly outside as early as 7:30 a.m. and banging on her neighbors' doors after they asked her to be quiet. (Dressel is due in Tuesday afternoon, in the leg at their home Oct. 15.)