Police Log May 26: Police on patrol

Posted by ChaddsFordLive on May 25, 2016

• The Pennsylvania State Police Memorial Day enforcement period will run from Friday, May 27, through Monday, May 30, and coincide with the “Click It or Ticket” seatbelt campaign currently running through June 5. Troopers from Troop K, Media barracks, will also be conducting a sobriety checkpoint. Police are reminding motorists to exercise safe and responsible driving.

• The driver of a truck whose flatbed trailer turned over on the Lenape Bridge on May 18 was charged with careless driving, according to a state police report. Police identified the driver as Edward D. Barnett Jr., 41, of Tidioute, Pa. The report said the passenger side wheels of the trailer struck the bridge embankment when Barnett turned right onto the bridge from southbound Route 52.

• On Sunday May 15, New Garden Township Police responded to the 100 block of Starr Road for an argument between two males. Upon arrival, officers saw one of the men bleeding from his left arm. The victim said he became involved in an argument with his daughter’s boyfriend, Zoilo Padua, 29, of Philadelphia. The argument continued outside the residence where Padua allegedly yelled profanities at the victim before striking the victim with a large rock. Padua fled the house on foot and was located by responding officers in the 600 block of Penn Green Road. Padua was taken into custody after a brief confrontation with police. Following arraignment, he was remanded to Chester County Prison after failing to post the $10,000 cash bail.

• New Garden Township Police were called to the 1300 block of Newark Road for a report of terroristic threats on May 10. A woman told police that she had broken off a relation ship with Eric Rivera, 24, of Kennett Square, and that Rivera then gave her a letter in which he threatened to kill her if she did not get back together with him. Rivera was taken into custody without incident. He was arraigned on charges of terroristic threats and harassment and remanded to Chester County Prison after failing to post $25,000 bail.

• State police from the Avondale barracks cited a 17-year-old driver after his 2000 Volvo C70 crossed the double yellow line on Longwood Road and struck a 2008 Ford Escape driven by a 90-year-old Kennett Square resident. Police said no one was injured in the May 10 accident.