Berwyn Police Blotter
Landlady: tenants not only deadbeats, but thieves too
June 13, 2008, 6 PM
A landlady alerted police to a problem with the second-floor tenants in a building in the 3700 block of East. After the electricity was turned off to their flat because they did not pay their bills, she said, the upstairs tenants simply ran extension cords out to an exterior electrical outlet in order to power items in the upper apartment—meaning they are stealing electricity billed to the downstairs tenants.
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