Suspicious package theft attempt on Columbia Avenue

Heard on: Westmoreland County Public Safety

01:38

This transcript is auto-generated from live dispatch audio and may be incomplete or inaccurate. It is not an official report and may change.

00:00

Be a Penn Township for Cougar Lane.

00:05

Hang up (number withheld) Cougar Lane.

00:10

Call back, no voice contact.

00:15

10-08.

00:22

Two 500 , go with Floyd County.

00:28

One hundred.

00:31

Medic 05:10 will be handling that call.

00:34

Medic 05:10 at 1008 .

00:36

Town of Vandergrift for Columbia Avenue.

00:40

Good.

00:43

(number withheld) Columbia Avenue.

00:45

Third party caller thinks he's witnessing a porch pirate scope out a package and attempting to steal it.

00:58

Yeah, that's correct.

01:03

White male in his early thirties, correction, late thirties, early forties.

01:08

Blue jeans,

01:09

black shirt, black shoes.

01:11

Has a ball cap on backwards with facial hair.

01:17

The caller is still on scene watching nearby.

01:22

He's in a (number withheld) black Ram pickup.

01:32

Spoke with Cougar Lane on the phone.

01:34

She sounds very apprehensive about police possibly stopping by, but said everything's okay.

6/20/2026 07:05 AM

Suspicious Activity

Cougar Ln, Claridge, PA 15623

Suspicious package theft attempt on Columbia Avenue

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Not official report. AI-generated from public dispatch audio. Always verify with official sources.

As discussed during the dispatch call, dispatch received a hang-up call from a residence on Cougar Lane in Penn Township, and a later phone contact with a woman at that location indicated she was apprehensive about police stopping by but said everything was okay. In a separate call near Columbia Avenue in Vandergrift, a third-party caller reported a possible porch package theft in progress involving a man in a black pickup truck watching a package on a porch.

Suspicious package theft attempt on Columbia Avenue

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