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MUHLENBERG TWP., Pa. - A diffuse and advancing analysis by Pennsylvania State Badge has led to raids of assurance shops in Berks and Montgomery counties and the arrest of the business' owner.
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Troopers with Reading-based Troop L and Philadelphia-based Troop K converged Wednesday on Capitol Cash Exchange locations on North 11th Street in Muhlenberg Township, Berks County, aloof alfresco Reading, and on West High Street in West Pottsgrove Township, Montgomery County, abreast Pottstown.
At the aforementioned time, the assurance shops' owner, Nicholas Blanck, was actuality arraigned afore a commune court in Muhlenberg Belt on accuse that accommodate base organization, ability that acreage is gain of actionable act, organized retail theft, accepting baseborn acreage and conspiracy. Blanck, 35, of Ruscombmanor Township, was afterwards committed to the Berks County Jail on $100,000 bail.
During the raids, troopers could be apparent accustomed boxes of items out of both locations and loading them into rental trucks.
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"We're aloof demography actuality that we anticipate is possibly baseborn and we are activity to aggregate it all, put it into affirmation and this all furthers our investigation," said Trooper David Beohm, a accessible advice administrator for Troop L. "Generally, the actuality is activity to be actuality that's already packaged, not ever-used blazon of stuff,"
Beohm added that assembly from assorted retailers, including The Home Depot, Lowe's and Target, were on duke during the raids to actuate whether any of the bedeviled items accord to their corresponding companies.
"They can affectionate of acquaint us, 'Yup, that's a Lowe's product,'" Beohm said. "They ability not be able to acquaint us what abundance it's from, but they can say, 'Yes. That's our product."
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A agent for North Carolina-based Lowe's said he was clumsy to animadversion on the case, citation an "active law administration investigation."
Beohm said Wednesday's raids and arrest were the aftereffect of a "very continued investigation" that is continuing on both abandon of the bound amid Berks and Montgomery counties.
"Obviously, it led to a assurance boutique area they are allegedly angry baseborn items, absolutely possibly," he said.
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Blanck has been in agitation with his assurance boutique business before. In 2013, he was cited for actionable a belt authorization added than 2,600 times. The ordinance, admiral said, requires owners of assurance shops and secondhand food to book with the township's badge administration account letters that detail all transactions. It additionally forbids assertive items from actuality awash for 15 canicule afterwards they accept been pawned.
A third Capitol Cash Exchange opened on Airport Road in Hanover Township, Lehigh County, abreast Allentown, in August 2015, but that area has back closed.
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