Police Log March 2: High-speed chase, drug arrest, harassment

Posted by ChaddsFordLive on March 2, 2022

Pennsylvania State Police

Avondale Barracks

• Police said they arrested four teenage girls from Wilmington who reportedly led police on a high-speed chase with speeds exceeding 100 mph before crashing and burning in Delaware. According to the report, Pennsylvania state police attempted to make a traffic stop on Old Kennett Road in Kennett Township at 10:56 p.m. on Feb. 18 because the vehicle was not maintaining its lane of travel. There were five occupants in the car. The four arrested at the scene of the crash were aged 15, 16, 17, and 18. Police later determined that the vehicle, a 2016 Jeep Cherokee, had been stolen in a carjacking in Delaware the previous month. A firearm was also recovered during the arrest.

• A 32-year-old man from Chester was arrested on drug charges in Kennett Township on Feb. 24. Police did not identify the suspect in the report. Police said the man was driving erratically, speeding, swerving in and out of lanes, and failing to use turn signals. After making the stop, police said they smelled marijuana and the suspect admitted to having smoked before driving. The incident happened on Route 1 south of Route 52 at 10:39 p.m.

Kennett Square Police Department

• Police said Keenan Collazo, 30, of Avondale, was arrested and charged with simple assault and harassment following an altercation in which he allegedly pinned the victim down on the couch, leaving bruising on the victim's wrists. The incident occurred on Feb. 21, at approximately 12:40 a.m., in the 300 Block of East Linden Street. Collazo was taken into custody and transported to Central Booking for an arraignment on the charges. The case is pending a preliminary hearing.

• Sean Carver, 34, of West Chester, was charged with illegally operating a motor vehicle not equipped with ignition interlock and related traffic offenses, a police report said. The arrest came after the vehicle he was operating was stopped for traveling 41 mph in a clearly marked 25 mph zone. The incident occurred on Feb. 17, at approximately 8:30 a.m. in the 400 block of East Cypress Street. Carver was identified through his Pennsylvania interlock operator's license, but no interlock device was observed within the vehicle, the report said.