Avondale man faces multiple charges, including aggravated assault
An accident on Wednesday led to multiple charges against Phillip Doty, 20, of Avondale, including aggravated assault against a police officer, resisting arrest, and drunken-driving, New Garden Township Police reported.
Police said they came upon a vehicle with extensive damage on Reynolds Road near the intersection of Springbenny Turn. Police said Doty was at the wheel and although he was trying to leave the area, damage to the vehicle prevented him from doing so. Doty initially ignored police contact and then became belligerent and uncooperative, police said. When an officer attempted to get Doty out of the roadway for safety reasons once he exited the vehicle, Doty became combative and struggled with the officer, police said. Back-up units arrived and Doty was placed in the patrol vehicle, but continued to be uncooperative and assaultive, police said.
Doty faces additional charges of theft and criminal mischief after stealing paperwork from the department and damaging the building, police said. He was video-arraigned and remanded to Chester County Prison after failing to post $10,000 cash bail, police said.
A Landenberg man was pulled over on April 27 after he was observed traveling erratically and well below the speed limit in the 8900 block of Gap Newport Pike, New Garden police reported. Elias Zavala-Torres, 39, who smelled of alcohol, failed standard field sobriety tests and was arrested without incident for driving under the influence, police said.
Another drunken-driving arrest occurred May 2 on Penn Green Road and Cezanne Court, police said. Oscar Bermejo-Castaneda, 22 of Cochranville was arrested after police responding to a single-vehicle accident, found Bermejo-Castaneda in his overturned vehicle, trying to drive off an embankment while the vehicle was resting on a PECO pole, police said. An odor of an alcoholic beverage was detected, Bermejo-Castaneda failed standard field sobriety tests, police said, adding that he was taken into custody without incident.
