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DUI Driver Charged In Crash In Berks County DUI Driver Charged In Crash In Berks County
DUI Driver Charged In Crash In Berks County A 37-year-old driver was charged with drunken driving after a crash in Berks County, authorities said on Wednesday, Aug. 14. On June 19, at 4:40 a.m., Spring Township Police received a call for a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Van Reen Road and Stevens Avenue, Spring Township police said. Thaddeus Keich, the operator of the striking vehicle, showed signs of impairment, police said. After an investigation, Keich was charged with DUI. He also passed through a stop sign, according to court records. A preliminary hearing has been set for Aug. 29.

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by Jon Craig
Police & Fire
Allentown Woman Killed By Wrong-Way DUI Driver ID'd: Police Allentown Woman Killed By Wrong-Way DUI Driver ID'd: Police
Allentown Woman Killed By Wrong-Way DUI Driver ID'd: Police A 55-year-old woman was killed by a wrong-way, drunken driver in Lehigh County Friday, Sept. 2, according to Pennsylvania State Police. The 41-year-old Glenside man was heading north in the southbound lane on Airport Road in Hanover Township, when he struck Catherine Ann Neelon around 11 p.m., PSP Trooper Nathan Branosky said. The woman was taken at by Northampton Regional EMS to Lehigh Valley Hospital Muhlenberg where she was pronounced deceased. The Glenside man was placed under arrest at the scene for Driving Under the Influence (DUI). Airport Road was closed for approximately 3 ½ …

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
DUI Driver Missing Tire Led 100+ MPH Police Pursuit In Central PA: Authorities DUI Driver Missing Tire Led 100+ MPH Police Pursuit In Central PA: Authorities
DUI Driver Missing Tire Led 100+ MPH Police Pursuit In Central PA: Authorities A 31-year-old driver had been drinking when he led police on a 100 mph pursuit, but was tracked down by police who followed the scrape marks from the rim of his car that had lost a tire, they said. A man later identified as Kenneth Pohlit was spotted stumbling around near Grandview Drive and Golf Course Road around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 19, Carroll Township police said. Pohlit's vehicle was spotted at the American Legion on Route 15 South. When officers arrived, Pohlit was standing outside of his car with the trunk and passenger side door open, police said.  As o…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Federal Grand Jury Indicts South Jersey Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed Handcuffed Driver Federal Grand Jury Indicts South Jersey Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed Handcuffed Driver
Federal Grand Jury Indicts South Jersey Officer Who Pepper-Sprayed Handcuffed Driver An angry South Jersey police officer doused a drunk driver with pepper spray twice after he’d been handcuffed, then filed a false report about the incident, an indictment returned by a federal grand jury on Thursday alleges. Another officer had handcuffed the disruptive driver and was beginning to put him in the rear of a patrol vehicle at a local gas station when Bridgeton Police John Grier III “grabbed a large can of OC spray and pulled out the pin,” Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael Honig said. Grier, 49, of Cedarville, told the officer to “step back,” then asked the driver, “Do you want to …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Obituaries
NJ Man, 29, Studying To Become Priest Killed In NYC Hit-Run Crash NJ Man, 29, Studying To Become Priest Killed In NYC Hit-Run Crash
NJ Man, 29, Studying To Become Priest Killed In NYC Hit-Run Crash A 29-year-old man studying to become a priest was struck and killed in New York City by a drunken hit-and-run driver late Tuesday night, according to Catholic Church officials. Ngu Quoc Tran, who went by Peter, was walking on Manhattan’s East Side when he was struck by the driver, who was arrested after he car was involved in another collision, the Diocese of Metuchen said. Born and raised in the An Giang Province in the south of Vietnam, Tran moved to the U.S. in August 2017 and lived at the Saint John Vianney House of Discernment in Highland Park. Tran began pre-theology in Spring 2…

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by Cecilia Levine