• Pennsylvania State Police from Troop K, Media barracks, are investigating a case of identity theft in which someone filed an income tax return for $6,000 in the name of a Glen Mills resident. The incident was reported on March 7.
• State police from Troop J, Avondale barracks, also reported they are investigating a similar case in which a Pennsbury Township resident is the victim. The victim’s Social Security number was used to file federal income taxes.
• Kennett Square Police filed charges recently in two longstanding identity theft cases. The first allegedly occurred last July when a resident of the 100 block of North Lincoln Street reported the fraudulent use of a credit card, still in the victim’s possession, a couple of days earlier in Whitehall Township and in Bethlehem. On Monday, March 9, police said they arrested Shivon Sessoms, 32, of Newark, N.J., on charges that included access device fraud and related offenses.
• The second identity theft case in Kennett allegedly occurred on Jan. 8, 2014, when a business located in the 600 block of South Union Street reported that a $675 check, which had been mailed to them at an incorrect address in the 100 block of South Willow Street, was cashed on Monday, March 31, 2014. Maria Rios, 43, of Lynn, Mass. – formerly of Kennett Square – was charged with access device fraud, identity theft, and related offenses, police said.
• State police from the Avondale barracks cited an unidentified driver following a one-vehicle crash in Pennsbury Township. Police said the driver was heading south on Route 52 when the car drifted into a berm and shoulder as it approached a left curve. The driver overcorrected, police said, and the rear wheels began to sway. The car spun 180 degrees before leaving the road and hitting a utility pole. There were no injuries, but the driver was cited because the car’s registration had expired in November.
• A state police report said Dwayne Eugene Jones, 47, of Camden was arrested for driving under the influence of a controlled substance on March 9. The report said Jones was stopped for a traffic violation on Southbound Route 1 at Dickinson Drive in Chadds Ford at 7:56 p.m.
• Fernando Serrano Dominguez, 50, of North Ridge, Del. was arrested for DUI following a two-car accident on Route 202 at Dickinson Drive on March 9, a police report said. Details of the accident were not released.
• Whole Foods in Concord Township was the victim of a theft that happened sometime between noon March 10 and noon March 11. Police said someone stole 30 aluminum chairs from the rear of the store in Glen Eagle Square.
• State police are investigating a fraudulent check passing. According to a report, someone passed a bad check at the Fulton Bank on Route 1 in Concord Township. The unidentified suspect left the bank with $2,221. Anyone with information is asked to phone Tpr. Traino at 484-840-1000.
• Kennett Square Police arrested Eduardo Vazquez-Cruz, 22, of Kennett Square, for DUI on Friday, March 13 at 12:29 a.m. in the 100 block of North Willow Street. Police said they found him asleep, slouched over the steering wheel of his running vehicle.
