Police log July 11: Thefts, accidents and DUIs

Posted by ChaddsFordLive on July 11, 2013

• State police cited a West Chester woman for running a red light and hitting another car on Route 202 at Spring Hill Lane. No injuries were reported in the June 24 accident. According to police, Jane Carlson, 63, was driving north on 202 when another car entered the highway at a green light. Carlson failed to stop, police said, and hit the front end of that other car.

• Police are looking for a suspect described only as a white, non-Hispanic male in connection with the theft of money from two vehicles parked on Beech Tree Drive in Concord Township on July 8. No other details were given.

• Vanessa Velnar Payne, an employee at the Home Depot in the Concordville Town Centre, was arrested for stealing merchandise from her employer, according to a police report. The arrest happened 1:43 p.m. on July 9.

• Charges were pending against a Philadelphia woman following a July 8 accident shortly after 12:30 a.m. at routes 1 and 322 in Concord Township. Police said Alexandra Haney, 22, was DUI.

• Someone stole wheels and tires from a vehicle parked at Fox Valley West Apartments in Concord Township on July 6.

• State police made two DUI arrests in Concord Township on July 6. Raymond OShields, 21, of Garnet Valley was stopped on Route 202 at 1:06 a.m. At 1:17 a.m., a 49-year-old man from Aston drove through a sobriety checkpoint at the 400 block of Route 202. He, too, was arrested for DUI.

• No injuries were reported, but one driver was cited for speeding following a three-vehicle accident on Route 202 near Woodland Drive in Chadds Ford Township on July 3. According to police, Dana Whelan, 22, of Exton, was cited after two cars in front of her stopped abruptly at a light. She hit the car in front of her and that car hit the lead vehicle.

• A 21-year-old woman from Reisterstown, Md. was cited after she rear-ended another car on Route 202 just south of Dilworthtown Road on June 29. Police said Rebecca L. Myers was also injured when she struck the other car with four occupants at 7:20 a.m. None of the occupants of the other vehicle were injured, police said.