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Cody Robert Sebring, 33, of the 400 block of East Chestnut Street in Souderton, and Alexis Lynne Henrick, of the 200 block of West Broad Street in Hatfield Borough, were arrested July 1
A Souderton man already free on bail and facing felony charges in a May burglary involving $19,000 in stolen tools and copper was arrested again this month, this time allegedly caught in the act atop a commercial building in Franconia Township with a saw, a backpack, and freshly cut copper tubing, police said. A second suspect, a Hatfield woman with multiple prior convictions for theft, was also arrested nearby.
Cody Robert Sebring, 33, of the 400 block of East Chestnut Street in Souderton, was taken into custody July 1 by Franconia Township Police and charged with felony theft by unlawful taking, misdemeanor theft of secondary metal, possession of an instrument of crime, and criminal trespassing, according to court dockets.
Alexis Lynne Henrick, 32, of the 200 block of West Broad Street in Hatfield Borough, was also arrested and charged with felony theft by unlawful taking, felony conspiracy to commit theft, and summary possession of an instrument of crime, per court records.
According to the criminal complaints, police were dispatched around 4:18 a.m. July 1 to Hemoglobin Oxygen Therapeutics (HBO2 Therapeutics), located at 675 Souder Road, after the property owner reported spotting a person with a backpack on a surveillance feed. The business has been a repeated target for copper tubing and wiring thefts, especially from rooftop and ground-level commercial generators, police said.
Upon arrival, Franconia officers set up a perimeter around the building and found that one of the access ladders — both of which were secured and topped with barbed wire — had been tampered with, the barbed wire pushed aside. With help from the facility’s maintenance manager, officers entered the roof through a locked interior hatch, police said.
There, they found freshly cut copper tubing in a pile, along with a backpack and a reciprocating saw stashed inside an access panel of a rooftop HVAC unit, per the complaint. Sebring was located crouching behind a nearby wall and immediately recognized by police due to past scrap metal theft investigations, police said.
Officers said Sebring surrendered without incident, allegedly stating, “I was not going nowhere, you guys got me.”
Meanwhile, officers located a running vehicle parked across the street at a neighboring business. Inside, they found Henrick in the driver’s seat, police allege. She reportedly told police she was waiting for her boyfriend, Sebring, and claimed he had walked off following an argument.
Given her proximity to the crime scene and relationship to Sebring, she was taken into custody, police said. According to the complaint, Henrick later admitted to possessing a walkie-talkie during the attempted theft.
Henrick has a record of theft-related offenses, including a December 2024 conviction for misdemeanor retail theft for which she was sentenced to 36 days to 12 months in jail and one year of probation, which ended in January 2025. She also pleaded guilty to misdemeanor drug paraphernalia possession in August 2024 and was sentenced to a year of probation, court records show.
Sebring is currently awaiting trial in a separate case filed by Franconia Police on May 14, connected to a May 5 burglary at Gouldey Welding, also in Franconia Township. In that case, police alleged Sebring and two co-defendants stole tools and copper materials later sold at a Philadelphia recycling plant.
At a preliminary hearing, several felony charges against Sebring were withdrawn, but the remaining charges were waived to Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.
Sebring is also facing unrelated misdemeanor charges stemming from an August 2024 traffic accident in Trappe Borough involving injury.
He had been free on $2,077 cash bail in the Gouldey Welding case since May 15. A pre-trial conference is set for Sept. 5.
Anyone with additional information is asked to contact Franconia Township Police.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
