Police log June 16

Posted by ChaddsFordLive on June 15, 2011

• State police were called to
investigate a case of criminal mischief at a chapel on Rocky Hill Road in
Chadds Ford Township. A report said someone damaged the chapel by throwing
rocks at—and inside—the chapel sometime between 1 and 9 a.m. on June 9.

• Police are investigating the
theft of $8,000 worth of equipment from a residence in Chadds Ford Township.
According to a report, forced entry was used to gain access to the residence on
Pin Oak Dive sometime between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. The unknown suspect—or
suspects— removed two air compressor units and three furnaces.

• State police from Troop J,
Avondale, are looking for two people suspected of stealing two digital cameras
from the Walmart in East Marlborough Township. A police report said the pair, a
white, Hispanic male and a white, non-Hispanic female, took two Fuji Film
Finepix S2940 camera kits and fled the store in an older model white Jeep
Cherokee.

• A police report said a
50-year-old from Kennett Square was injured when he lost control of his
motorcycle in Pocopson Township on June 9. The report said William F. Kelly
lost control of his bike while traveling eastbound on Route 842. Kelly was
transported for an injury of unknown severity, the report said.

• No injuries were reported from
a three-car accident on Route 1 near Applied Card Way in Concord Township. A
police report said the June 10 accident was caused when one vehicle rear-ended
another, causing the second car to veer into the left lane, striking another
vehicle.

• Tavares Hubbard, 24, of West
Chester, was charged with DUI and fleeing the scene of a crash following an
accident on Route 1 at Route 202 on June 11. Police said Hubbard struck another
car then fled down Route 202 where he was stopped near Beaver Valley Road. The
report said Hubbard failed a field sobriety test.

• Pescatore’s restaurant in
Keystone Plaza on Route 202 was the scene of two crimes in three days, police
report. On June 9, at 5:45 a.m., a white man, believed to be in his early 30s
and wearing an orange safety vest, black work pants, a yellow hard hat, driving
a white van with an amber light on the roof, cut the lock from a fence and took
several pieces of scrap metal. On June 12, between 4:15 and 4:45 a.m., three
men removed a pressure washer from a shed on the property. Anyone with
information on either incident is asked to call police at 484-840-1000.