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And now, Preston and Steve's news update with Kathy Romano.

And today is Thursday the 28th day of September.

Good morning, Kathy.

Good morning in the news this morning.

Philadelphia police have arrested a woman accused of encouraging looters while live on social media Tuesday night.

21-year-old Deja Blackwell, also known as Meatball, allegedly used her social media platform to encourage

people to engage in looting at several locations and is alleged to have engaged in criminal

activities herself, according to the district attorney's office. Steve, you were asking yesterday, you were like, if there's a, you know, how do you organize this many people to do something like this? Most likely easiest way social media, there had to be some evidence out there. And you saw the video, I'm sure, where she's going on and on and on. streaming live from the various sites where they were looting. Nice job, idiot. Yeah, didn't think she would get caught. And then the cops come over to the side of the car and she's, I'm not, I'm not doing anything. They've been watching the stream. They know exactly what's been going on. A couple of years ago, Preston, might have been at the Chrysher, you know, the pandemic, the outdoor show. Outdoor show, yeah. I was talking to some police officers. They say, you won't, they're, they monitor social media all the time to look for insight into what might be going on criminally. Yeah, sure. And certainly, here's a perfect example. What kind of following does she have? Do we know? I don't know. About 100,000? Is it? Okay. So she is charged with burglary, conspiracy, criminal trespass, riot, criminal

mischief, criminal use of communication facility, receipt of stolen property, and disorderly

conduct. Blackwell has since posted bail and is due back in court next month. She was

arrested on the 5,600 block of Rising Sun Avenue after being observed by officers at a gas station.

Blackwell was one of 52 people taken into custody by police on Tuesday.

Three juveniles were also apprehended.

The chaos started at 730 Tuesday after numerous 911 calls.

At least 18 state-run liquor stores were broken into leading the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board to close

all 48 of its Philadelphia retail locations and one in suburban Sheltonham on Wednesday.

A decision has not yet been made on whether they will reopen the stores today.

Other stores in and around the city were ransacked, including Lulu Lemon, Foot Locker, and the Apple Store.

Video on social media shows mass people in hoodies running out of Lulu Lemon with

merchandise and police officers grabbing several and tackling them to the sidewalk.

Photos of a sporting goods store at a mall showed mannequins and sneakers scattered on the

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