Hospital security guards lead police to theft suspect

Guards at Reading Hospital in West Reading called borough police at 11:29 p.m. Jan. 27 about a suspicious man who appeared drunk. Officers discovered the man had stolen items from a vehicle in the hospital's parking lot. They arrested the suspect, a 26-year-old West Reading man, and charged him with disorderly conduct, public drunkenness, theft, theft from a motor vehicle and receiving stolen property. He was jailed in lieu of $10,000.