• The Chester County Sheriff’s Department has released its first ever most wanted list. The department is seeking public assistance in apprehending what it considers dangerous fugitives. (See photo.) Anyone with information is asked to call the department’s fugitive tip line at 610-344-4333. “I encourage anyone who has information that may assist law enforcement in locating these wanted persons, to call the Tip Line here in the Sheriff’s Office. Every bit of information, large or small, is valuable,” said Sheriff Carolyn “Bunny” Welsh.
*** UPDATE: The Chester County Sheriff’s Office reports that Jaquay Marquise Roane is in custody in Lancaster County Prison. according to Welsh, “After the recent public distribution of the Chester County Most Wanted List, multiple tips were received in Chester County and Lancaster County indicating a specific address in Lancaster City where Roane could be located. Acting on that information, the Lancaster City Bureau of Police took immediate action resulting in Roane’s arrest.”
***END UPDATE
• Birmingham Township Police Chief Tom Nelling reported that his department responded to 753 incidents during the month of June and made three criminal arrests. He also said a bomb threat had been called into the CVS pharmacy in Birmingham, but it was determined to be a hoax because five CVS locations received the same threat on the same day.
• A bra with a store security tag still on it got a Maryland woman arrested in Concord Township. Pennsylvania State Police from Troop K, Media barracks, said Marie Joy Tanamore Steffan, 40, from Silver Springs, was arrested for retail theft after departing Victoria’s Secret in Glen Eagle Shopping Center shortly after 6 p.m. on July 7. According to the report, police were called to the store because a woman set off the alarm when she left the store, but she kept on walking. Police met the suspect outside the store and found in her possession a bra with the security tag still on. Employees identified the bra as belonging to the store. Upon further investigation, police learned that Steffan had made more than $200,000 in fraudulent returns in the past two-and-a-half years, the report said. The Victoria Secret chain had previously requested the suspect not to enter any of its stores.
• Police are investigating a case of retail theft at Cardinal Camera on Evergreen Drive in Concord Township. They are looking for an unidentified suspect, described as a white male, about 6 feet tall with a medium build and tattoos on both arms. He was wearing a red baseball cap, blue shirt and jeans and had, what police described as, “a scruffy appearance.” He fled the scene in a blue Honda Odyssey with a partial Maryland license AE1529. There was no mention of what was taken from the store. The incident happened 1:50 p.m. on July 7. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 484-840-1000.
• State police investigated a two-car accident at the intersection of Routes 322 and 1 shortly after 7 a.m. on July 7. A report said there were no injuries but one of the drivers — identified as Kaliah Z. Martin, 20, of Chester — left the scene. According to police, a 2011 Chevrolet Aveo was stopped at a red light on 322. It was in the right of the two left turn lanes. Martin was behind the Aveo and tried to swing into the left lane when she struck the other car in the rear, then fled.
• One person was injured as he was exiting a car that was stopped at a traffic light on Smithbridge Road. The victim was struck by a vehicle turning right onto Smithbridge from northbound Route 202. The accident happened at 12:30 p.m. on July 6. No other details were released.
• Alec J. Kowalchuk, 21, of Boothwyn, was charged with DUI on June 28. A police report said Kowalchuk was stopped for a vehicle code violation at 9:43 a.m. Police said it was determined that he was driving under the influence.
• Through this Saturday, July 12, Pennsylvania State Police will be utilizing “unconventional methods” to enforce speed limit laws, a press release said. “Speed enforcement will take place during the above week on an unspecified day(s) at an unspecified location on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. All violations will be enforced in conjunction with a “zero tolerance” policy,” the release said. The release came a day after the state Turnpike Commission issued a reminder for drivers to be careful while driving through construction zones. A commission employee was killed on June 1 in a work zone crash.
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