Crime & Safety

2 Women Vandalize Officer Brad Fox Memorial In Montco: Cops

The women "desecrated the memory of and the memorial to" Officer Fox, who was killed in the line of duty in 2012.

Police are searching for two women cyclists who they said vandalized the Officer Brad Fox memorial along the Schuylkill River Trail.
Police are searching for two women cyclists who they said vandalized the Officer Brad Fox memorial along the Schuylkill River Trail. (Plymouth Township Police Department)

PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP, PA — Two women are wanted in Montgomery County for vandalizing the memorial to a fallen officer over the weekend.

The incident occurred on Saturday, Sept. 26 at 3:24 p.m. along the Schuylkill River Trail, where the memorial to Officer Brad Fox stands. Fox was killed in 2012 in the line of duty.

Security footage shows two women on bicycles stop at the memorial, which is adjacent to the freight tracks, just past Conshohocken and outside of Norristown.

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In the video, one of the women stands at her bike as a "lookout," police said, while the other climbs up the side of the memorial, takes down a Thin Blue Line American flag, and throws it into the nearby bushes.

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The pair then get back onto their bikes and continue down the trail.

"As you will see, the female suspects stopped with the sole and express purpose of desecrating the memory of, and the memorial to, Officer Brad Fox," the police said in a statement.

Fox was 34-years-old and a seven-year veteran of the force when he responded to the fateful call that night eight years ago. He was pursuing a hit and run suspect with his K-9 partner, Nick when the suspect turned and shot and killed him. The suspect was later killed.

If you have any information, contact Plymouth Township Police at 610-279-1901 or Detective Sergeant Schwartz at CSchwartz@PlymouthTownship.org.

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