More than $30,000 in fraudulent purchases reported under her name
More than $30,000 in fraudulent purchases in New York and Connecticut from May 29 to June 6 was discovered by a Kennett Township woman victimized by identity theft, state police from the Avondale barracks said. Police said the thief used the information from the victim, who lives on Penns Manor Drive, to open several credit lines; a heavy-set woman with long, slick black hair has been seen using a Pennsylvania driver’s license with the victim’s data, police said. Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 61-268-2022.
On Saturday at 12:20 p.m., troopers from the Avondale barracks responded to the Avondale Presbyterian Church in the 500 block of Pennsylvania Avenue for a cardiac-arrest complaint, police said. An investigation revealed that Nicholas Ortiz, 30, of Allentown, was having a violent reaction to heroin, police said. He and Nicole M. Mulski, 20, of Hockessin, possessed drug paraphernalia, police said.
Police said a 48-year-old Landenberg woman was cited after police responded to a one-vehicle crash on June 9 at 11:37 a.m. on U.S. 1, west of Rt. 82. Police said Dorothy S. Hoopes was traveling west on U.S. 1 in a 2005 Volvo Xc70 when she left the roadway and struck a guard rail in the median. Police said Hoopes was wearing a seatbelt and sustained minor injury.
Lisa A. Letterman, 48, of Rising Sun, Md., was cited after a crash on U.S. 1, south of Newark Road, on June 5 at 8:56 p.m., police said. Letterman was traveling southbound in New Garden Township when her 2000 Dodge Caravan left the roadway and struck an embankment, police said, adding she was not injured.
