A number of burglaries in Whitehall, Coplay, North Catasauqua, Northampton, Lehigh Township, Bath and Walnutport have been solved.

The burglaries took place between Nov. 23, 2012 and May 24, 2013 between the hours of 11:45 p.m. and 5 a.m.

Whitehall addresses where the burglaries took place include 435 Fullerton Ave., 714 Fifth St., 3413 Lehigh St. and 4837 Main St.

Coplay addresses include 4 N. Fourth St. and 109 S. Ninth St.

Northampton addresses include 1373 Newport Ave., 946 Washington Ave., 1465 Washington Ave., 402 E. 19th St., 1430 Newport Ave., and 1531 Washington Ave.

Bath addresses include 126 S. Chestnut St. and 225 S. Walnut St.

Lehigh Township addresses include 981 Riverview Drive and 459 S. Cottonwood Road.

One address in North Catasauqua, 1083 Sixth St., was also burglarized, along with numerous addresses throughout the rest of Lehigh and Northampton counties. One address in Carbon County was affected as were four addresses in Berks.

According to an affidavit of probable cause, Patrick Quinn, 27, of 2131 Riverside Drive, Lower Saucon Township, and Kelly Cunningham, 22, of 1843 Nancy Lee Court, Hellertown, were charged Aug. 14 after an investigation by Pennsylvania State Police at Bethlehem and Bethlehem Police.

Quinn and Cunningham are charged with 76 counts each of burglary, criminal conspiracy to commit burglary, criminal trespass, and criminal conspiracy to commit criminal trespass, and one count of attempted burglary.

Police During the burglaries, the two defendants stole copper pipes, copper fittings and valves, brass fittings and valves, and tools and sold them for scrap at various scrap yards in Lehigh and Northampton counties. The total amount of stolen items and damage to the properties was about $205,807.

The defendants accessed a real estate website via a laptop computer and cell phone to identify residences that were for sale, the affidavit says. The defendants later entered the addresses into a GPS and drove to the locations.

The affidavit says a state trooper was contacted by the owner of a scrap yard in May 2013. The scrap yard owner reported that Cunningham was bringing copper to him to be sold for scrap.

The owner also reported Quinn brought copper to him to be sold for scrap.

The owner then gave the trooper a description of the vehicle that Cunningham had been driving and the license plate of the vehicle, according to the affidavit.

Police reviewed scrap yard records and determined that Quinn and Cunningham had taken copper and brass to the scrap yard numerous times, the affidavit says.

Police then searched Cunningham's vehicle and seized the GPS unit inside the vehicle and pieces of copper piping, numerous cutting tools, pry tools and duffle bags. One of the duffle bags contained a receipt for a salvage yard.

Police also searched a bedroom at 605 Nazareth Pike, Apt. C, Lower Nazareth Township, where Quinn had lived, and seized a cell phone and shoes. Police also found two notebooks for addresses in Lehigh, Northampton and Carbon counties, the affidavit says.

According to the affidavit, a detective in the Petzold Laboratory analyzed the GPS unit taken from Cunningham's vehicle and determined that the defendants were in the immediate areas where a majority of the burglaries had occurred.

The cases were consolidated and are being prosecuted in Lehigh County because detectives with the David M. Petzold Digital Forensics Laboratory of Lehigh County on the campus of DeSales University in Upper Saucon Township established a crucial link in all the cases by examining a global positioning system (GPS) unit in Cunningham's vehicle, the affidavit says.