Police Log March 12: DUIs and accidents

PSP Logo• State police from Troop K, Media barracks, said a blue Toshiba laptop computer was found in the vicinity of Concord and Matson roads on Feb. 28. The computer was being held at the barracks until the owner could be found.

• An 18-year-old boy from West Chester was arrested and charged with DUI following a traffic stop on Ridge Road at Pheasant Lane in Chadds Ford on Feb. 28, a police report said.

• Daniel Joseph Wachter, 25, of Eddystone, was arrested for DUI on Feb. 27, according to a police report. Police said the accused was driving under the influence of alcohol and a controlled substance. The traffic stop was made at Route 322 and Station Road in Concord Township.

• At 3:11 a.m. on March 1, Alexander Dale Sankey, 20, of Delran, N.J. was arrested for DUI at the intersection of Routes 1 and 202, state police said.

• State police said they arrested Joseph Andrew Kelly, 34, of Newark, for DUI following a traffic stop on Route 202 at Springwater Plaza in Chadds Ford Township.

• Two teenagers, a 16-year-old girl from Garnet Valley, and a 19-year-old boy from Newark were involved in a traffic accident at Concord and Brinton Lake Roads at 8:30 p.m. on Feb. 28. No injuries were reported, but both vehicles had to be towed.

• State police said Zachary O. Jacobs, 22, reportedly of Chadds Ford, received a minor injury when the car he was driving spun on ice, left the roadway and then hit a trash can and a tree. The accident happened 11:09 p.m. on March 4 on Garnet Mine Road in Concord Township. Jacobs was cited for driving at an unsafe speed, the police report said.

• No injuries were reported in a one-vehicle accident on Webb Road in Chadds Ford Township. Police said Ryan T. Dosen, 35, of Kennett Square, was driving on Webb at 9:30 a.m. on March 3 when his vehicle hit a patch of ice, left the road and then hit a tree.

• On Monday, March 9, state police from the Avondale barracks responded to a two-vehicle crash on Unionville Road, north of Chalfont Road in East Marborough Township at 4:43 p.m. Police said Charles D. Farace, 79, of Coatesville, was traveling north when his 2013 Honda CRV veered into the southbound lane, striking a 2010 Dodge Caliber driven by a 44-year-old Kennett Square man. Farace, who sustained minor injury, was cited; the other driver was not hurt, police said, adding that both were wearing seatbelts.

• A 17-year-old man was cited when he was unable to stop his Volkswagen Jetta as he was approaching the intersection of Folly Hill Road and Lenape-Unionville Road. The car went through the intersection and into a ditch. No injuries were reported. The one-car accident happened shortly after 9 a.m. on March 4.

• State police from Troop J, Avondale barracks, said a Nottingham woman was cited following a traffic accident on Route 52 south of Route 926 in Pennsbury Township on March 2. Jacquelyn M. Gavin, 36, was cited after her truck left the road for “unknown reasons.” The Chevy Silverado crossed the traffic lane and struck another vehicle.

• State police from the Embreeville barracks responded to a one-vehicle crash on Unionville Wawaset Road, east of Indian Hannah Road, in Newlin Township on Tuesday, March 3, at 6:59 p.m. Police said Lauren A. Kennedy, 19, of Kennett Square, was traveling east when she lost control of her 2013 Chevrolet Equinox and struck a fence. Kennedy and her 14-year-old passenger, both of whom were wearing seatbelts, sustained injury of unknown severity; Kennedy was cited, police said.

• State police from the Avondale barracks said Evita V. Leach, 27, of Coatesville, was traveling north on Doe Run Road in Newlin Township on Tuesday, March 3 at 9:26 p.m. when she lost control of her 2006 Chrysler 300, left the west side of the road and struck a concrete drainage wall. Leach, who sustained minor injury and was wearing a seatbelt, was cited for failing to drive at a safe speed, police said.

• Traffic stops led to three recent DUI arrests, said Kennett Square Police. Marcus Miller, 26, Kennett Square, was pulled over in the 400 block of East South Street on Monday, Feb. 23.  Robert Saladino, 61, of Kennett Square, was arrested on Sunday, Feb. 15,  at 7:14 p.m. in the 500 block of North Mill Road, and Cesar Aguilar-Castaneda, 22, of Kennedy Square, was detained on Tuesday, March 3, at 4:11 p.m. in the 200 block of Birch Street.

• Kennett Square Police cited two 18-year-olds -- Alexander Hill of Kennett Square and Dalton Emerick of West Chester -- for underage drinking after the vehicle in which they were passengers was stopped on Wednesday, Feb. 18, at 11:49 p.m. in the 500 block of West State Street.

• On Monday, Feb. 23, at 5:15 p.m., a borough resident told police that the IRS had rejected the electronic filing of a tax return because the Social Security number had already been used for another return. Kennett Square Police said they are investigating the possible identity theft, which is a state offense, and federal officials are probing the filing of a false return, which comes under their jurisdiction.

• A customer who left a phone on the counter of a Kennett Square business in the 500 block of West Cypress Street around 4 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 14, got the phone back, but borough police are still trying to identify the man who stole it. Police said store personnel recognized the suspected thief in surveillance video as a regular patron. When the suspect showed up again the next day, an employee asked for the phone, got it, and returned it to its owner without obtaining the alleged thief’s name, police said, adding that an investigation is continuing.

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