Four Arrested for Breaking into Car

East Pikeland Police and neighboring deaprtment officers using night vision goggles tracked down four people who now face charges of breaking into cars early Thursday morning.

According to East Pikeland Police four men were arrested for breaking into vehicles in the 100 block of Verdant Drive. "At about 1:30 a.m. East Pikeland police received a call from an observant citizen that someone was inside of their car. Police were close by when they received the call and responded with assistance from surrounding departments. The four suspects took off running. Police set up a perimeter and conducted a search with night vision equipment and located the four suspects hiding nearby."

Four Pottstown men: Miles Andrew Elliot, 20,; Malik Lee Brinkley, 20; Donald Lamont Johnson, 18 and Nafeese Amir Harrison 19, were arrested and arraigned in Phoenixville District Court where they now await preliminary hearings in the case.