Police on the Main Line searched for a burglar suspected of breaking into a woman's home then hopping onto a SEPTA train to make his escape.
On Friday, Radnor Township Police identified the man seen on surveillance video from SEPTA’s Norristown High Speed Line as Matthew Heckman of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania.
Police said tips came in after they showed video of Heckman, 27, on a SEPTA train after the break-in where police said he came face to face with a Rosemont, Pennsylvania homeowner last Friday inside her Hawthorne Road home.
Police urged the public to call 911 if they know anything about Heckman's whereabouts.
As the woman returned home around 11 a.m. on April 17 she saw a man in dark clothing and a baseball cap in her home, said police. The man told the woman not to move but she managed to run out the front door and call 911 from a neighbor’s home.
Neighbors later saw the man leave the home with a blue suitcase full of jewelry, electronics and cash and head toward SEPTA’s Norristown High Speed Line.
SEPTA investigators later found video of the man riding the train toward the 69th Street Terminal. He got off at the Parkview Station in Upper Darby, said police.
