• A pair of smash and grab burglars hit the Old Wooden
Market and Deli in Chadds Ford Township during the early morning hours of May
9, but failed to get any money, according to deli owner Bill Bondarchuk.
The action of the two men was caught on surveillance tape.
Suspects broke in through a window, ignored an ATM machine, a self-serve
lottery machine, all the cigarettes and a charity cash jar with money in it.
They were in the store for 1 minute 16 seconds.
“They beat…my register, but didn’t get anything,” he said.
The video shows two men inside the store, banging a register
up and down on the counter and smashing at one with what appeared to be a
crowbar.
Both suspects were wearing black hoodies, one wore a ski
mask and the other a bandana over his face. One also wore glasses while both
wore gloves, Bondarchuk said.
State police have not yet issued a press release, but
Bondarchuk said troopers told him that the pair hit two other stores before
his, then hit another in Kennett Square after leaving Chadds Ford, and had
struck six stores in two days.
The break-in happened about 1:30 a.m.
• State police from Troop J, Avondale barracks, cited Daniel
P. Boyle, 39, reportedly from Chadds Ford, for a traffic violation following a
one-vehicle crash on Route 1 at Hickory Hill Road in Pennsbury Township. A
police report said Boyle’s car was travelling southbound when his car went off
the shoulder of the road, hit a utility pole and came to rest 20 feet away from
the pole, blocking the right southbound lane. Police said Boyle then fled the
scene on foot. When found at his residence, Boyle was found to be under the
influence of drugs and alcohol.
