PLYMOUTH TOWNSHIP, Pa. — Two Cheltenham Township police officers, two detectives and a Five Below store manager were honored by Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele for the response to a stabbing that authorities said nearly killed a store security guard. The Mercury reported that Cheltenham detectives Philip Degliomini and Matthew Gonglik, officers Stewart Coyle and Sean Maguire, and Five Below manager Loresha McCray received commendations during Steele’s May 13 law-enforcement ceremony at the county Public Safety Training Campus. Patrol-car transport when minutes mattered The case centered on a Dec. 6, 2024 attack at the Five Below in the Greenleaf Shopping Center on West Cheltenham Avenue. The Mercury reported that a security guard had been stabbed in the lung and side after confronting a shoplifting suspect. According to Steele’s remarks as reported by the outlet, Officer Maguire and Officer Coyle found the victim in a pool of blood and slipping in and out of consciousness. The officers decided there was not enough time to wait for EMS and drove the guard to Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital in a patrol vehicle. Steele said that fast transport helped … [Read more...] about Cheltenham Officers, Detectives and Store Manager Honored for Life-Saving Five Below Stabbing Response