Crime & Safety
Update: Suspect in $50,000 Bryn Mawr Jewelry Theft from West Chester
Police arrested Ann Gleason for her alleged role in a robbery of a Bryn Mawr home.
A 34-year-old West Chester woman was arrested on third-degree felony charges relating to an October theft of $50,000 worth of jewelry in Bryn Mawr, according to Lower Merion police.
The victim, of Springmont Circle in Bryn Mawr, discovered the jewelry missing between Oct. 2 and 7 and reported the missing items to Lower Merion police.
The suspect, Ann Tucker Gleeson, was a lifelong friend of the victim’s daughter, according to police.
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Information leading to Gleeson’s Feb. 2 arrest came from another police department conducting a separate investigation, police said, adding that a person in possession of some of the jewelry said Gleeson had given it to them.
Some of the jewelry stolen has been recovered, according to police.
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Gleeson's bail was set at $10,000 unsecured, according to court documents.
A preliminary hearing for Gleeson is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 9 before Magisterial District Judge Henry Schireson in Penn Valley.
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