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Joshua Lawrence Beauseigneur, of the 1400 block of Route 663, New Hanover, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court for an incident from October 2024
A New Hanover man with an address in Lansdale is headed to jail for breaking into a garage and cutting its power, shortly after he fled from Jefferson Lansdale Hospital.
Joshua Lawrence Beauseigneur, 32, of the 1400 block of Route 663, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court to a felony charge of criminal trespassing-entering a structure and was sentenced by Common Pleas Judge Thomas M. DelRicci to 68 days to 23 months in jail, with credit for 68 days' time served, according to court documents.
Beauseigneur ran away from Jefferson Lansdale Hospital, where he was admitted as a patient, at 8:36 a.m. Oct. 15, 2024. He was seen heading into the woods near North Line Street.
While en route to check the area for Beauseigneur, a homeowner on the 1100 block of N. Line Street called police to report a man was walking around her property, police said.
Upon arrival at the house, police found a garage door closed and police from another department confirmed Beauseigneur was locked inside, police said. Once more officers arrived on scene, the garage was opened and Beauseigneur was found hiding under a wooden table, per the affidavit. Beauseigneur was ordered to come out and he complied, and he was taken into custody to be transported back to the hospital, police said.
The homeowner told police she was in a second-floor kitchen, when she saw Beauseigneur on her property in between a pickup truck and a trailer, per the affidavit. The woman’s husband went outside to speak to the defendant, who was trying to open the locked trailer door.
Beauseigneur then walked into the backyard, picked up a Roadmaster bicycle, got onto it, and started riding away toward the front of the home. When the homeowner asked Beauseigneur what he was doing, he dropped the bicycle, police said, to which the homeowner told him, “You are not allowed to be on my property, get out.”
Instead, Beauseigneur walked into the open, attached garage, disconnected the power to the building at the circuit breaker box, and then rummaged through various drawers.
Police said they were familiar with Beauseigneur from an incident the day prior in another jurisdiction.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
