• A 68-year-old employee at the Acme market in Concord Township was injured when a driver failed to notice the line of shopping carts the man was pushing. According to police, Frank Gillespie, 70, of Glen Mills, was cited for careless driving. Police said Gillespie was pulling into a parking stall when he hit the carts. The employee fell backwards and hit the ground with his tailbone. He was transported to the hospital after complaining of back pain, the report said.
• State police are looking for two white men in their late teens or early 20s for retail theft. A report said the two stole an unknown number of items from the Walgreens in Chadds Ford Township.
• An unidentified 23-year-old woman from Lititz was cited for DUI following a traffic stop on Route 202 at Johnson Farm Lane on Jan. 11. The stop was made at 11:52 p.m.
• Police said Paige Pezzotti, 25, of Claymont, was arrested for DUI on Route 202 at Watkin Avenue in Chadds Ford. The traffic stop was made at 2:29 a.m. on Jan. 11.
• Devyn Hetman, 19, of Glen Mills, was arrested for DUI at 3:20 a.m. on Jan. 11, police said. The traffic stop was made on Route 202 near Smithbridge Road. Police said she was processed and then released to a family member.
• Giavonna Antoinette Banner, 22, of West Chester, was arrested for DUI on Jan. 8 at the intersection of Route 1 and Brinton Lake Road, police said. According to a report, she was stopped at 2:22 a.m.
• No injuries were reported, but one driver was cited after being involved in a three-car rear-ender accident on Route 202 on Jan. 7. Police said Evangelista Gonzalez-Almonte, 43, of Wilmington, was cited for following too closely after she struck a car in front of her that was slowing for traffic south of Ridge Road. The car she struck then rear-ended another car.
• An unidentified Chadds Ford man was cited for driving at an unsafe speed following a crash on Ring Road near Bullock Road on Jan. 6. Police said the driver tried to slow down because there were two other vehicles stopped in front of him, but he was unable to stop due to icy road conditions. He turned avoid the vehicles, but hit a tree. There were no injuries, police said.
• Winfred L. Dickerson, 62, of Wilmington, was cited for following too closely after rear-ending another vehicle on Route 52 at Hillspring Road in Pennsbury Township, a police report said. There were no injuries reported. According to police, both vehicles were heading north on 52 when the lead car slowed, but Dickerson did not.
• A report of a stolen car in Kennett Square led to the arrest of a man wanted in Florida. Daniel Whitcomb, 29, of Kennett Square, was arrested as a fugitive from justice and held at Chester County Prison in lieu of $75,000 bail, according to a report from borough police. According to police, a 2003 Toyota Corolla was reported stolen on Dec. 14, but found by state troopers from the Avondale barracks in Pennsbury Township on Dec. 18. During the investigation, it was learned there was an outstanding warrant from Florida for Whitcomb.
• Kennett Square Police made two drunken-driving arrests recently. Scott Slesinski, 23, of Kennett Township, was arrested following a traffic stop in the 200 block of South Walnut Street on Saturday, Dec. 13 at 1:07 a.m., and Marco De Jesus-Cuevas, 28, of Kennett Square, was detained following a traffic stop in the 500 block of Rosedale Road on Sunday, Dec. 14, at 12:52 a.m., police said.
• A Jan. 6 accident on Parkersville Road in Pennsbury Township led to one driver being cited, but no injuries were reported. State police said Melissa S. Parkin, 35, of West Chester, was cited after her a Honda CRV crossed into the opposing traffic lane for unknown reasons. The vehicle came to rest against an embankment. Another vehicle swerved to miss the Honda, but hit the passenger side taillight.
• State police from the Embreeville barracks arrested a 58-year-old Newlin Township man for simple assault on Saturday, Jan. 10, at 11 p.m. in the 600 block of Harvey’s Bridge Road. Police said Patrick K. Chase, 58, struck and bit a woman during an argument; he was released on $5,000 unsecured bail.
• State police from Troop J, Avondale barracks, reported a hit and run accident in the Walmart parking lot in East Marlborough Township. One vehicle was struck by another and the offending driver fled the scene. The accident happened just before 5 p.m. on Jan. 3. Police said a review of surveillance videos had negative results.
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