Police Log July 7: Car theft, donut shop heist

Posted by ChaddsFordLive on July 7, 2021

Pennsylvania State Police

Media Barracks

State police are investigating a theft of almost $4,000 from the Dunkin Donuts at 1110 Baltimore Pike in Concord Township on June 10. Troopers from the Media barracks were dispatched to the shop shortly after 4:30 a.m. The front door had been smashed, and the intruder broke into the office and removed the safe and coin drawers. There was no surveillance and no witnesses. The thief got away with an estimated $3,895 in bills and coins.

Avondale Barracks

Police said a tractor-trailer driver was cited after his rig ran off the road in Pennsbury Township on July 1. According to the police report, Scott S. Anderson, 49, of Manchester, N.J., was driving south on Route 1, north of Constitution Drive, when the truck hit the concrete barrier. The rig then crossed into the northbound lane into a grassy field. The International Harvester made a U-turn in the field causing turf damage. The driver was not injured, the report said.

Kennett Square Police Department

• Marguerite Parker, 60, of Avondale, was arrested and charged with DUI and related traffic offenses after she struck a parked vehicle., according to a police report. The incident occurred on June 24, at approximately 8:47 p.m., in the Liberty Place parking lot, West State Street. Police said officers observed indicators suggesting intoxication, and field sobriety tests showed impairment. She was taken into custody for suspicion of DUI and submitted a chemical test of her breath, resulting in a blood alcohol content of 0.122 percent.

• The Kennett Square Police Department arrested Jovone Larome Gordon, on Monday, June 28, a police report said. He was wanted in connection with a March 5, 2020 robbery at the S&T Bank in the 200 block of East Cypress Street, Kennett Square Borough. A male suspect walked in, jumped over the counter, and demanded the tellers turn over the money in their drawers. The male subject then fled in a vehicle that was waiting in the bank parking lot. After further investigations and DNA analysis from objects located in said vehicle (received on March 8, 2021), Kennett Square Criminal Investigations Division was able to identify Gordon and another male as the defendants in this incident.

Kennett Township Police

Kennett Township police are investigating the reported theft of a vehicle that the operator had left running at a business in the 700 block of W. Baltimore Pike at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 30. The victim said he left the engine running, with the door unlocked when he ran into the business. When he returned to the parking lot, the vehicle was gone. Video surveillance shows two suspects, pictured, waited for the victim to enter the business and then took the vehicle. The stolen vehicle is a gray 2005 Acura TL, with Pennsylvania registration JBY-2223. If anyone can identify either of these suspects, contact Officer Miguel Juarez at 610-388-2874, Ext. 312 or miguel.juarez@kennett.pa.us. If anyone knows the whereabouts of the stolen vehicle, please call 911 and report its location. DO NOT confront the operators.