{"id":51469,"date":"2026-10-13T22:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/51469\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T22:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T22:41:27","slug":"chester-county-man-charged-after-bizarre-stalking-incident-in-grocery-store-parking-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/51469\/","title":{"rendered":"Chester County man charged after bizarre stalking incident in grocery store parking lot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">CALN TWP., Pa. &#8211; A Chester County man is accused of stalking and harassing a young woman in the parking lot of a local grocery store.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Michael Kent, 38, was arrested last Friday in a parking lot of a business on the 300 block of Lincoln Highway on charges of stalking, harassment, and more.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Police were called to the parking lot of the Giant grocery store on Lincoln Highway after a 20-year-old woman reported seeing him move his vehicle from one spot to another directly next to the victim&#8217;s vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">When the woman entered the store, investigators say the suspect was captured on camera placing clean diapers on the victim&#8217;s windshield wipers. He then moved his car to a parking space directly behind the victim&#8217;s car and waited there until she returned.<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Police say when the victim returned to her car and saw the diapers on her windshield wipers, she summoned a store employee to help her remove them. She left the parking lot and called police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">After the woman left the parking lot, police say Kent fled and was found by officers in his vehicle on the 300 block of Lincoln Highway.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">Investigators have not speculated on what Kent&#8217;s possible intentions were by placing diapers on the victim&#8217;s windshield wipers.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTXF\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-35ac954e=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-35ac954e=\"\">The Caln Township Police Department is asking anyone who believes they were targeted by Kent, or faced a similar situation, to reach out to investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information provided by the Caln Township Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    Chester CountyCrime &amp; Public Safety <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALN TWP., Pa. &#8211; A Chester County man is accused of stalking and harassing a young woman in the parking lot of a local grocery store. What we know: Michael Kent, 38, was arrested last Friday in a parking lot of a business on the 300 block of Lincoln Highway on charges of stalking, harassment,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[29923,4099,6366,6364,6362,6365,6363,192,2487,1427],"class_list":["post-51469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-delaware","tag-chester-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-delaware","tag-delaware-dining","tag-delaware-food","tag-delaware-grocery-stores","tag-delaware-restaurants","tag-news","tag-pa","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@dc\/117436015243161347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}