Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. Thanks for joining us. Fox 29s Chris Oconnell is live in coatesville tonight. Chris the community is mad. Reporter thats right iain. Someone out there is stealing american flags from the streets of coatesville. Some of them taken during the citys july 4th celebration of all nights. Now, Coatesville Police understand they admit its not the crime of the century but it is a crime that has some peoples blood boiling. Kind of felt hurt. Felt slighted and felt like Somebody Just slapped me in the face. Reporter john palowski has good reason to be upset. You would be, too if you saw this. Id rather not say on here what went through my mind. This is not something that coatesville deserves. Reporter Surveillance Video yo shows a man an woman swiping through american flags from the 300 block of lincoln highway, stolen and drug along the street just a couple of hours after july 4th fireworks fireworks. And this is whats left of another flag ripped down
Felt slighted and felt like Somebody Just slapped me in the face. Reporter john palowski has good reason to be upset. You would be, too if you saw this. Id rather not say on here what went through my mind. This is not something that coatesville deserves. Reporter Surveillance Video yo shows a man an woman swiping through american flags from the 300 block of lincoln highway, stolen and drug along the street just a couple of hours after july 4th fireworks fireworks. And this is whats left of another flag ripped down right from the pole last month on of all days flag day. A lot of heart ache. A lot of pain. It makes you come to tears. You work so hard for a city thats great. Reporter City Council Woman marie lawson was part of all volunteer effort two years ago to bring some city spirit back to coatesville by placing 70 flags on the citys main drag every federal holiday. The vfk post 287 donateed 70 of them. Now police want to find those involved in taking the flags saying its more about
Doylestown police a few minutes ago. First, i want to show what is going on here. Were just off of 611 here by edison road in doylestown. You see Police Activity here. This is where the prisoner was last seen. Let me tell you some of the information that i got here. The prisoner was in a bucks county sheriffs transport van. The suspect asked to be to stop the van because he was feeling sick. Inside he was able to remove the foot shackles that he was wearing, got out, pushed the deputy, and ran away. At that point, he made his way here into doylestown. Philly aviation units, k9 units assisting. As you look at video here, this has been an intense search for the past several hours. The escaped prisoner was last seen in this area here by 611. The home where he was seen, this is exactly where we are now, the home is occupied. The escaped prisoner still has handcuffs on his wrists. He in custody, were told, for a failure to appear in court charge. Right now, this is the description that were
Right now there could be a very awkward moment in your next uber ride. Big changes coming. A stockpile of weapons. Explosives found in a house. I just got home and all of this stuff is going on. Neighbors stunned. But say it could have been a whole lot worse. Now fox 29 news at 10 00. Its still an active scene in bucks county night Police Hazmat crews and even the bomb squad worked to clear a home in ottsville. Troopers found all those guns, all those explosives while serving a warrant. Good evening, im lucy noland. Im iain page. People on that stretch of easton road are concerned tonight. Fox 29s Dave Schratwieser has been near the scene all night. Dave, whats the latest . Reporter well, iain, easton road remains shut down at this hour as Police Brought in lights to illuminate the home where experts are working with guns and explosive chemicals that they found in the area. This afternoon this ten hour operation is still going strong at this hour and as you can well imagine neighbors h
Nobody said anything it kind of just all happened so briefly. Its a little scary when you hear Something Like that. Reporter ed lives right nearby as well he was worried about reports of beguns and explosives at the home. When they find chemicals and stuff like that, you think about now a days in this day and age. Reporter state police say it was just afternoon they came here to serve a Mental Health commit many warrant on a 70yearold man. Thats when they made the potentially dangerous discovery. They called in hazmat experts, and bomb squads from the surrounding area. Its weird to picture that Something Like that is happening right next door practically. Reporter half a dozen homes in pros close proximity as well as the liberty Propane Company about quarter mile away. That goes up you might as well kiss everything goodbye. Ill just be here until im told what to do other other kind of situation i guess. Easton road was shut down for several Hours Tuesday night and authorities brought i