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Wanted: Suspects for Vandalism in the 9th District [VIDEO]
Central Detective Division is seeking the public’s help identifying the individuals seen in the following video clips and still photos.
On Sunday February 10, 2025, the traffic lights located at Juniper and Market Street were torn down by a large group of people during the Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl celebration. Three traffic light poles were damaged beyond repair. No injuries reported.
To view this video and more, visit The Philadelphia Police YouTube Channel or https://phillypolice.com/news
Action News says 12 poles were torn down, each one worth about $1,000. Charges can include felony criminal mischief, theft, and reckless endangerment.
I could be wrong, but I don’t recall the police putting out a “wanted” notification after any previous sports celebration. Not for the first Eagles Super Bowl or any of the conference title game celebrations. I’ll ask around and see if I can find out. They’ve made plenty of individual arrests, but this is them posting the video and specifically looking for more than a dozen people, using the PPD website and notifying local media.
If that’s the case, a different approach, then what changed? New mayor trying to crack down? Heightened enforcement after the death of the Temple student? Maybe both. When you smash the window of a private business, private insurance covers it. And when you fall through a SEPTA bus shelter, people get wet. But the light poles are public property and critical to traffic flow and there’s a safety component to the whole thing, so it’s not the same as the Lehigh kids, for instance, carrying the goalposts four miles and dumping them into the river.
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