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Pennsylvania Police Officer And Brother Caught Burglarizing Apartments

Saturday, January 16, 2016 15:18
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A Wayne County, PA police officer was caught along with his brother on Friday breaking into an apartment complex. After breaking into several unoccupied apartments, Officer Matthew Spink and his brother John Hoffman were confronted by the residents of an apartment that was occupied.

Spink claimed that he and his brother were working undercover and had been called about the break ins. He continued using that lie after local police arrived at the Nazareth Borough apartments. Unfortunately (for him and his brother), they didn’t buy it.

Via LehighValleyLive.com:

Spink, 23, told a borough officer just after midnight that he received a call from a woman describing suspicious captivity (sic) at 176 S. Green St., police said. He did not identify the woman, police said.

Spink entered the apartment complex through a second-floor balcony door, then let in his brother John Brandon Hoffman, 32, of the same address, police said.

The pair went into several unoccupied apartments before picking the lock of an occupied apartment, police said. Spink identified himself and his brother to the residents as undercover police officers who were responding to a call at that location, police said.

There were no 911 calls at that address before borough officers were requested, police said.

Spink was recognized by one of the residents as a former student of hers, police said. He remained in the apartment and directed his brother “to go and search other apartments,” police said.

When borough police arrived, Spink came outside and identified himself as a Lehigh Township, Wayne County, police officer, court papers say.

Spink tried to convince borough officers that he was at the apartment complex on official business, police said.

He showed an officer that he got into the building by climbing up on an outside air conditioning unit and grabbing the porch railing of an unoccupied apartment, police said.

“The defendant is not authorized to be in or resides at 176 S. Green St.” and “he is not authorized to act as an undercover police officer in the Borough of Nazareth,” police say in court papers.

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Spink also allegedly didn’t tell borough police ahead of time he was planning to enter apartments there.

While walking around the complex with officers, Spink, who appeared to have been drinking and smelled of alcohol, “through casual conversation” identified Hoffman, police said.

Hoffman was gone by that point, but police said they found him in front of his home and he resisted after police told him he was under arrest. He also smelled of alcohol, police said.

Victims later identified Hoffman as being present in the apartment, police said.

Spink was arraigned at 7:45 a.m. Friday before on-call District Judge Richard Yetter III on charges of burglary, conspiracy to commit burglary, trespassing and criminal mischief, court papers say.

Bail was set at 10 percent of $25,000 and Spink was not in Northampton County Prison later Friday morning, a Department of Corrections employee confirmed.

A preliminary hearing is tentatively scheduled 9 a.m. Jan. 22 in District Judge John Capobianco’s Nazareth court.

Hoffman was arraigned before Yetter on the same four charges, in addition to a count of resisting arrest, court papers say. He was sent to prison in lieu of $25,000 bail, with no 10 percent option. He remained jailed later Friday morning. His preliminary hearing is tentatively set for the same time and place as his brother’s.

You do have to appreciate the fact that he was breaking into his former teacher’s house. The icing on that cake is sweet enough to hurt your teeth. Of course, I’m sure they’ll get a big slap on the wrist and Officer Spink will be right back out there on the streets protecting and serving the community again in no time.

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    every cop is a criminal.

    It’s incontrovertible.

    So shut up. If you defend them.

    They do happen to catch some of the bad guys, but the big fish never get investigated.

    It’s all for show.

    They are wolves in sheep’s clothing .

    Not so much the sheep’s clothing anymore.

    They don’t care if you know they are crooks.

    It’s the end of the game so they can pull out some of the stops.

    they are destined to become big targets.
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