Kennett Square police investigating hit-and-run, criminal mischief
Kennett Square police are investigating two incidents of criminal mischief and a hit-and-run.
State police from the Avondale barracks have filed charges against a 48-year-old Christiana man, who is accused of making false reports to law enforcement. Police said Thomas W. Myers erroneously reported that his vehicle had been stolen from a business in the 600 block of East Cypress Street in Kennett Township, police said.
Kennett Square police are investigating a report of hit-and-run accident on Feb. 20 at 11:40 a.m. Police said, a large white box truck turning left from South Union Street onto West State Street struck the driver‘s-side door of a blue Cadillac and left the scene.
Borough police said a female resident of the 500 block of South Broad Street was coming out of her bathroom at 8:14 p.m. on Feb. 22 when she observed a man wearing a black shirt and jeans partially through a window of her home. The woman called 9-1-1 and the man ran from the building; an investigation is continuing, police said.
Kennett Square police arrested Charles B. Fields, 28, of Kennett Square, for terroristic threats, simple assault and harassment for an incident that occurred on Feb. 23 at 4:05 a.m. in the 300 block of North Walnut Street. Following arraignment, Fields was unable to post $7,500 cash bail and was taken to Chester County Prison.
Two incidents of criminal mischief are under investigation, Kennett Square police said. One occurred sometime between 12:05 a.m. 2:30 a.m. on Feb. 18 when a residence in the 100 block of Scarlett Avenue was egged. The second happened overnight Feb. 18; a business sign located in the 400 block of Center Street was spray-painted with graffiti, police said.
