• State police are investigating the theft of a necklace at the Brandywine River Hotel on Route 1 near Creek Road in Chadds Ford Township. A press release said the suspect is a 26-year-old hotel employee from Aston Township. According to the report, a male guest returned to the room to find the employee with his wife’s purse on the bed. The victim later said a necklace was missing. The incident happened shortly before 9 a.m. on Sept. 30.
• State police said Edward Joseph Ward, 56, of New London, was DUI when he was stopped on Route 1 at Brandywine Drive for having an expired license plate. The report said he was taken into custody and processed. The incident happened at 3:05 a.m. on Oct. 6.
• Police took a 21-year-old Hockessin man into custody for DUI after they received a call that two drunk men were leaving a hotel with a weapon. A police report said troopers responded to a 2:43 a.m. call from the Hampton Inn on State Farm Drive in Concord Township. When police arrived, they found Anton Powell Wainwright, the operator of a 2002 Isuzu Trooper, was under the influence of alcohol and that he had a sidearm concealed in the vehicle.
• A state police trooper noticed a car weaving in traffic along Route 202 at Hillman Drive shortly before 1 a.m. on Oct. 9. The trooper stopped the vehicle and took the driver, Stephen Emery Kochel, 42, of Townsend, Del., into custody for DUI.
• A 32-year-old Delaware man was charged with DUI and other related traffic offenses following a single-vehicle accident on Kennett Pike in Pennsbury Township. State police from Troop J, Avondale barracks, said Hugo Lopez, of Wilmington, was not hurt when he lost control of his Jeep Grand Cherokee on Route 52 north of Hillspring Road at about 3:40 p.m. on Oct. 7. The jeep left the roadway and hit a fence and a boulder before coming to rest on top of the boulder.
• Someone stole two sets of golf clubs from a vehicle parked on Johnson Farm Lane in Concord Township on Oct. 2.
• State police are investigating the theft of a white golf bag and a dark ice hockey bag from a garage on Willits Way in Concord Township. Police said the perpetrator entered the garage through an open door sometime between 6 p.m. Oct. 1 and 6:17 p.m. Oct 2.
• A Connecticut woman was injured in a two-car accident in Concord Township. A police report said Jaymie D. Nickerson, 26, of Old Lyme, Conn., was hurt when she hit a car on Route 202 at McComb Avenue when the lead car slowed for traffic.
• A Glen Mills woman, Patricia G. Dodds, 59, was cited for failing to yield the right of way in connection with an Oct. 1 accident at the intersection of Concord and Mattson roads. Police said Dodds was making a left turn from eastbound Mattson Road onto northbound Concord Road while another vehicle was heading south on Concord.
• Birmingham Township police responded to 858 incidents in September, eight of which resulted in criminal arrests, according to Police Chief Tom Nelling. He told supervisors that there were eight thefts from unlocked cars. He also said that two cases remain open.
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