Photo released of suspect after jeweled gold crown worth $30K stolen from Center City church

Police are working with surveillance images to help them identify the man who stole a golden, jeweled crown from a church in Center City Philadelphia.

In the video, a man can be seen scaling the fence and then smashing through a stained glass window built in 1899.

Philadelphia police say it happened just after 1 a.m. on Saturday at the St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church in the unit block of South 13th Street in Center City.

“That person knew exactly what he was doing,” said Father John McCloskey, Assistant Pastor, St. John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church…

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