Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Lancaster man charged after thefts in Limerick

By Caroline Sweeney
casweeney@pottsmerc.com 

LIMERICK — A Lancaster man was charged with multiple felonies after police connected him with items stolen from several cars between March 24 and March 31.
Travis Alan Hanna, 20, is in Montgomery County Correctional Facility in lieu of his $500,000 bail, according to court documents. He was charged with theft from a motor vehicle, receiving stolen property, and sale of a firearm.
Hanna is accused of stealing more than $1,400 in cash and weapons, according to police.
He also allegedly took navigation units from several of the cars, police said.
On March 24, police began investigating thefts in the first block of Betty Lane, the first block of Roberta Lane and the 100 block of North Reed Road, police said.
During the alleged theft from a Ford Expedition on Betty Lane, Hanna took a .45 caliber Glock 21, police said.
After an investigation and interviews with witnesses, investigators discovered that Hanna allegedly sold the stolen gun to a drug dealer in Lancaster, police said.
Police also found the navigation units were taken to Cash Converters in Pottstown to be sold.
Hanna was given $30 from Cash Converters for the units on March 31, police said.
On April 2, police arrested Zachary Raymond Moser, 19, of Gilbertsville. Police said Moser and several minors were involved in the thefts as well as the alleged sale of the gun.
Hanna, according to police, allegedly gave Moser $40 for driving him to Lancaster to sell the gun on March 25.
Moser was arraigned on April 3 and is confined to the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in lieu of $5,000, according to court documents.
Both men are expected in court again; Hanna on April 17 at 11 a.m. and Moser on April 21 at 9:45 a.m.

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