Amity Township Police announced the arrest of four different women in relation to three different theft incidents at the Keystone Villa Independent Living retirement community last month.
Julie Bieber, 41, of Bernville, Sasha Coles, 27, of Pottstown, Arionna Coles, 22, of Norristown, and Renee Bearden, 35, of Pottstown, were all arrested and charged related to thefts which occurred at the beginning and end of August, the Amity Township Police announced Wednesday.
‘Several residents reported to the staff (at Keystone Villa) that medicine, cash and Visa credit card were taken from their unlocked or open apartments,’ Aug. 7, a police release said. ‘Upon reviewing the security camera system, an unknown female was observed walking inside the Villa. The Visa credit card was later used at Boyer’s Market (in Bernville) by the same female to purchase several items.’
Amity Police Detective Jeffrey Smith said the woman, identified as Bieber, was a former employee of Keystone Villa who said she was visiting a friend.
In the security camera footage, he said Bieber can be seen going into apartments when the person she was visiting walked away for a moment.
After being interviewed by police, Bieber alleged admitted to the thefts.
Court documents indicate she was charged with three counts of burglary, three counts of criminal trespass, and one count each of access device fraud, identity theft, theft by unlawful taking and forgery. Her bail was set at $10,000 cash Sept. 12, which she posted via a surety bond a day later.
Court documents indicate she was arrested in late July for retail theft.
Both Aug. 27 and 29, the Amity Police responded to Keystone Villa for reports of stolen checks ‘cashed at different banks.’
Initially, Smith said he investigated the cases as being related to the earlier one eventually attributed to Bieber.
However, he was eventually able to discern through surveillance footage that the checks were stolen by a current employee of the Villas.
Sasha Coles, the employee, was charged with entering the residents’ apartments and stealing the checks and passing them along to her sister, Arionna, and her friend, Bearden.
Charged Wednesday, Sasha will face tree counts each of theft by unlawful taking, conspiracy, forgery and receiving stolen property.
Arionna and Bearden each face one count each of forgery and receiving stolen property as well as two conspiracy charges.
The Coles sisters were not yet arraigned Wednesday. Bearden was and her bail was set at $50,000 cash, which she did not immediately post.
Sasha has no previous arrests in Pennsylvania, according to an online court search, but Arionna has been arrested on drug and theft charges in the past.
Bearden was arrested in Lower Pottsgrove in 2002 on a drug charge, according to an online docket search.
A representative for Keystone Villa could not be reached for comment Wednesday as of press time.
