(File Photo: Source for Photo: This photo taken from video shows a suspect pointing a gun after police say two armed men committed a robbery outside a store on Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2025, in Elkins Park, Pa. (Cheltenham Township Police Department via AP)

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police are investigating whether the armed robbery of a Brinks truck on Tuesday outside a Philadelphia-area store is related to four other attacks on armored vehicles in and around the city this summer.

Two armed males got away with between $700,000 and $800,000 in the midday Tuesday heist at an H Mart in Elkins Park, according to Cheltenham Township police. The robbers — one described as armed with an AR-15-style pistol, the other with a handgun — fled with the cash and later abandoned their vehicle nearby, police said. No shots were fired, and no one was injured.

Cheltenham Township Police Lt. Andrew Snyder said it’s the first such robbery in their township, but authorities are looking into whether it may be connected to four robberies of armored cars in and around Philadelphia since June that police and the FBI are investigating as possibly related.

Federal prosecutors announced Wednesday that three people from Philadelphia who were arrested in early August are charged in connection with the $2 million armed robbery of a Brink’s armored vehicle outside a Home Depot on June 21.

A Loomis armored transport vehicle was held up outside an Aldi in a different neighborhood five days later. Then on July 2, a Brinks truck was held up outside a Dollar General at a shopping center. And on July 15, police had a report of two suspects robbing one of the armored vehicles in northeast Philadelphia.

FBI agent Wayne Jacobs told CBS News Philadelphia that law enforcement recovered most of the money stolen in the June 21 heist, as well as a number of long weapons and handguns. Some of the money had been spent on jewelry, clothes and other items, he said.

“If this is the type of activity you’re going to engage in, if you look at the timeline, six weeks from the time of the incident until the time of the arrest,” Jacobs said, “it’s just a matter of time before you’re held accountable for your actions.”

(File Photo: Source for Photo: FILE – A Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority bus (SEPTA) is driven on Market Street in Philadelphia, Oct. 22, 2021. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from Pennsylvania House Republican Leader Jesse Topper’s office yesterday, (R-Bedford/Fulton) Topper made the following statement on recent action in the House on completing a state budget and funding mass transit in Pennsylvania:

“Discussions about how to conclude the current state budget impasse are completely devoid of reality and commonsense.

“House Democrats today had every opportunity to end dual crises for SEPTA and those relying on state funds for operation by passing the most fiscally responsible state budget plan we have seen to date, along with legislation that provides funds for mass transit and transportation.

“No solution is going to be perfect. But when SEPTA is offered funding and then proceeds to tell the House of Representatives that it will shut down operations because the funding solution is not perfect, it shows how disingenuous folks in this process have been about their real desire to avert calamity.

“As I said in the House chamber on Monday, the question we need to ask ourselves is if the process we are undertaking moves us closer to getting to a conclusion or further away. The failure to pass the state budget and transportation funding bills today only moves us further back while hurting the people of Pennsylvania who rely on state and mass transit services the most.”

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that on Sunday night, August 17th, weather permitting, inspection activities will occur on the 10th Street bypass ramp to the Fort Duquesne Bridge in the city of Pittsburgh. At 10 P.M. Sunday night through 5 A.M. Monday morning, the 10th Street Bypass ramp to the Fort Duquesne Bridge will close to traffic. Fort Duquesne Boulevard is the detour route and inspection activities will be conducted by crews from GFT.

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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(New Beaver Borough, PA) Pennsylvania State Police in New Castle report that twenty-year-old Isabella Breuer of New Galilee was charged after causing a single-vehicle crash on State Route 168 in Lawrence County on Monday. Breuer tried to avoid a deer on that New Beaver Borough road and hit a telephone pole after she swerved off of the right side of the road. Breuer and her vehicle were both found in a corn field after she went off of State Route 168. Breuer was not able to be driven from the scene of the crash and she had no injuries that were reported. The New Beaver Fire Department assisted at the scene and the vehicle of Breuer had damage that was disabling.

(File Photo of the PennDOT logo)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced the extension of lane restrictions on I-376 Parkway East for high friction surface treatment work in the city of Pittsburgh. As needed on weeknights from 9 P.M. to 6 A.M. and weekend nights from 6-12 p.m. through early September, some interchanges on I-376 will undergo single and double lane restrictions. They are the eastbound outbound I-376 between the Forbes Avenue/Oakland Exit 72A and the Squirrel Hill/Homestead Exit 74 interchanges and the westbound inbound I-376 between the Squirrel Hill/Homestead Exit 74 and Oakland Exit 73B interchanges. Work will be conducted by crews from RAM Construction Services. 

(File Photo: Caption for Photo: PennDOT, PSP, PTC, Construction Industry Highlight National Work Zone Awareness Week)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that on Monday, August 18th, through Friday, August 22nd, weather permitting, lane, shoulder and ramp restrictions on eastbound outbound I-376 Parkway East in Edgewood Borough and the City of Pittsburgh will continue occurring. From 3 A.M. through 2 P.M. on Monday through Friday between the Squirrel Hill Tunnel and the Edgewood/Swissvale interchange, crews will conduct construction on a retaining wall near the site of the new Commerical Street Bridge. outside of the Squirrel Hill Tunnel. If weather permits, the Beechwood Boulevard on-ramp to eastbound outbound I-376 will be fully closed and according to a release from PennDOT District 11, the detour for traffic can be found below:

Posted Detour 

• From Beechwood Boulevard turn onto Forward Avenue 

• Turn left onto Murray Avenue 

• Turn right onto Wilkins Avenue 

• Turn left onto S. Dallas Avenue 

• Turn right onto Route 8 (Penn Avenue) 

• Bear right onto Route 8 (Ardmore Boulevard) 

• Take the ramp to I-376/Pittsburgh/Monroeville 

• Stay right onto the ramp to eastbound I-376 

• End detour 

(FIle Photo of Road Work Ahead Sign)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) PennDOT District 11 announced that starting tonight, weather permitting, an overnight closure of the westbound inbound I-376 Parkway East ramp to the Boulevard of the Allies on Route 885 in the City of Pittsburgh will occur. From 9 p.m. tonight to 5 a.m. tomorrow morning, the westbound inbound I-376 Parkway East ramp to the I-579 Boulevard of the Allies/Liberty Bridge Exit 72B will close to traffic. A temporary barrier will be removed by crews and traffic on the ramp will get detoured. According to a release from PennDOT District 11, here is the detour route:

Posted Detours 

I-376 Westbound to the Boulevard of the Allies/Liberty Bridge 

• From westbound (inbound) I-376, continue past the closed ramp 

• Take the Grant Street (Exit 71A) left-hand off-ramp 

• Follow Grant Street to the Boulevard of the Allies 

• To continue to the Liberty Bridge, turn right onto the Boulevard of the Allies 

• Turn right onto the ramp to the Liberty Bridge 

• End detour 

I-376 Westbound to Northbound I-579 

• From westbound (inbound) I-376, continue past the closed ramp 

• Take the Grant Street (Exit 71A) left-hand off-ramp 

• From Grant Street, turn right onto Seventh Avenue 

• Take the ramp to North 579/East 380 toward PPG Arena/Bigelow Boulevard 

• Take the left-hand ramp to North 579/East 380 toward Veterans Bridge/Bigelow Boulevard 

• Take the ramp to North 579 toward the Veterans Bridge 

• End detour 

 

(File Photo: Caption for Photo: PennDOT, PSP, PTC, Construction Industry Highlight National Work Zone Awareness Week)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Allegheny County, PA) PennDOT announced the closure of the northbound I-79 to westbound I-376 (Parkway West) ramp in Robinson Township of Allegheny County will continue tonight, weather permitting. From 7 p.m. tonight through 6 a.m. tomorrow morning, the northbound I-79 ramp to westbound I-376 (Exit 59B) will close for joint cleaning and sealing of concrete pavement patches on the ramp and shoulder to be conducted by crews. According to a release from PennDOT District 11, here is where ramp traffic will be detoured.

Posted Detour

• Continue straight on northbound I-79 past the closed ramp
• Take the Route 60 Crafton/Moon Run (Exit 60) off-ramp
• Turn left onto Route 60 (Steubenville Pike)
• Take the ramp to I-79 South toward Washington
• From southbound I-79, take the ramp to West 376 toward Pittsburgh International Airport/Beaver (Exit 59B)
• End detour

The closure might be lifted sooner if the work is completed earlier, but drive cautious while this work occurs to be safe, which is the responsibility of everyone.

(File Photo of the Beaver County Courthouse)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Beaver, PA) A group of Economy Borough Residents showed up at the Beaver County Commissioners Work Session on Wednesday morning concerned about the possible stalling of construction of new homes in the borough through conservation issues. During the audience participation portion of the meeting the residents stated that they are concerned because Chad Weaver, owner of Weaver Homes, is continually being given additional items that need taken care of conservation wise. They feel he has gone above and beyond and they are accusing The Beaver County Conservation District through the Department of Environmental Protection of purposely stalling the construction of the remainder of their housing plan.  They said that this issue has been occurring since February of 2025. The residents from Economy Borough at the work session asked the help of the Beaver County Commissioners because they found out that the Department of Environmental Protection let the Beaver County Conservation District shut the Lakeside Village community of Economy Borough down, which caused local building developers to say they might stop doing business in Economy. Beaver County Commissioner Chairman Dan Camp stated that the Commissioners have received phone calls from both sides of the issue and that the Beaver County Commissioners will be meeting with the DEP on Thursday, August 28th, 2025 to discuss this issue. During the solicitors’ report of this session, some of the fifty resolutions on the solicitors agenda included an agreement to be utilized for the New Brighton Community Center and Senior Center and an opioid settlement against two families, the Purdue family and the Sacra family, and this would make an authorization of Beaver County to go into this settlement. Beaver County Commissioner Jack Manning also talked about the Inspired Hearts and Hands event last week at the M:7 Sports Complex in Beaver County where winter coats, socks and shoes were given to 1,100 kids in Beaver County that go to that complex. Those kids also got to see a dental clinic and a UPMC truck present to assist them and give them haircuts. In other business, the present system for chillers for the Beaver County Commissioners will have its ice operations running again on Monday, August 18th, 2025.