• Chester County Sheriff Carolyn Bunny Welsh has issued a warning about a phone scam. In various parts of Chester County, residents are being targeted by bogus phone calls and threatened with arrest by deputy sheriffs on a bench warrant for failing to report for jury service in Chester County Court. Sometimes they identify themselves as a member of a “Warrant Department.” In the calls, threats are made that a bench warrant will be served unless the person answering the phone goes to a convenience store or pharmacy and purchases a greendot MoneyPak card in amounts ranging from $300 - $1,500, and then calls the caller back with the MoneyPak card numbers. This is a scam, the sheriff said. “All residents should be warned to never share sensitive information with anyone you don’t know. Unfortunately there are criminals who use many types of scams and frauds to take advantage of individuals and families. We need to provide all information possible to protect our citizens.”
• State police are investigating thefts at two different restaurants on June 16. Reports said someone stole electronic equipment from a shed at Pescatore’s on Route 202 and 30 minutes later, numerous items were stolen from an outdoor storage area at the Outback Steakhouse in the Concordville Town Centre.
• A 20-year-old man from Thornton was cited after his car left the proper lane of travel while negotiating a right hand curve on Kirk Road in Concord Township. The driver, identified as Joseph J. Clark, was not injured according to a report. Police said Clark was driving northbound but crossed into the southbound side of the street. He hit a wooded portion of the roadside before hitting a boulder. According to the report, he left the scene on foot, but witnesses called police who were later able to contact him by phone. Police said he denied being involved in a crash. The incident happened June 14 at 5:44 p.m.
• State police cited Jeanne A. Seeds, 68, of Media when she was involved in a one-car accident on Route 1 between Scott and Cheyney roads on June 13. A report said Seeds was distracted when her cell phone rang. She glanced at the phone and the car drifted off the road, according to police. No injuries were reported. The accident happened at 8:39 p.m.
• A Chester Springs woman was cited for driving at an unsafe speed after she rear-ended a vehicle on Route 202 in Chadds Ford Township. Police said both vehicles were traveling north near Dilworthtown Road when the lead car slowed down, but Maddison K. Vanluvanee, 23, was unable to stop before hitting the other vehicle.
• Police are investigating the theft of tools and electronic equipment from a work vehicle that was parked at the Wyndham Garden Hotel on Route 1 in Concord Township shortly before 8 a.m. on June 12. No other details were released.
• No injuries were reported in the aftermath of a two-vehicle accident on Route 202 near Carter Way in Concord Township on June 12. Police said the accident happed at 8:43 a.m. when Todd A. Hoernemann, 48, of Wilmington, failed to slow down in time when a vehicle in front of him slowed to make a right hand turn.
• State police filed drug charges after responding to a call about a heroin overdose. A report said Justin Ray Beardsley, 21, was found unresponsive at a property on Mill Race Place. Drugs and paraphernalia were in plain sight, the report said. Beardsley was transported to Riddle Hospital.
• Edward E. Gorrell, 35, of New Castle County, was arrested for DUI after a traffic stop on Naaman’s Creek Road, a police report said. The stop was made at 2:29 a.m. on June 9.
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