Officer on bicycle patrol catches burglary suspect

A woman who lives in the 400 block of Penn Avenue in West Reading heard a loud bang at the rear of a nearby salon. She told a borough police officer who was on bicycle patrol. He spotted a hole in the glass of a door to the business and two other officers spotted a man whom the woman described as the suspect. Police arrested the suspect, a 47-year-old Reading resident, and charged him with burglary, theft, receiving stolen property and criminal mischief. He was jailed in lieu of $5,000 bail.