(File Photo of a Hopewell Township Police Department Badge)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver County, PA) The Hopewell Township Police Department has shut down comments from a Facebook post regarding three suspicious incidents in Beaver County involving Hispanic and Middle Eastern males. According to a letter from Hopewell Township Police Department Chief Donald Sedlacek, these recent incidents are as follows: a Middle Eastern man claimed that he was from Israel and was looking for a new mosque, proceeded to leave an electric bicycle battery at one of the pews at Ridge Point Church in Brighton Township and left by an electric bicycle, four males in hijabs were observed in a silver sedan driving by slowly with their phones up at New Bethlehem Church in Independence possibly taking pictures and a Middle Eastern/Hispanic man was caught off guard in a parking lot at Genesis Church in Hopewell in the parking lot by a member leaving service early, sat in his car for five minutes, then left in the area in a blue-gray Subaru Legacy with Ohio registration. Sedlacek also confirmed in this letter that close to the airbase at Pittsburgh International Airport is where apparent similar activity has also been going on recently. These incidents have gotten reported to police in the previous eight days before Tuesday. The Hopewell Police Department reminds residents to call 911 to report anything suspicious and to be aware of the surroundings you see in the local area.