Phoenixville Police Blotter

PHOENIXVILLE » Phoenixville Police responded to 90 calls for service, including eight traffic accidents, between March 12 and March

18. The following is a list of notable incidents as reported by police:

• On March 12 at 10:35 a.m., a resident in the unit block of East Grant Street reported that a pick-up truck was blocking his next door neighbor’s driveway. His neighbor asked the driver of the pick-up to move. As the man pulled away, he did a burnout and pelted the caller’s Toyota Corolla with road salt and cinders and then took off.

• On March 12 at 3:35 p.m., a 56-year-old Phoenixville woman decided to come clean on a hit-andrun accident after reading about it in the Facebook blotter. The woman came to the police station with her attorney and admitted that she was the driver of the Cadillac CTS that struck and injured a bicyclist on March 1. Donna Fuga was charged with a misdemeanor count of hit and run and several motor vehicle violations for the crash that occurred at the intersection of Main Street at Bridge Street.

• Police responded to the Riverworks apartment complex on March 14 at 1:26 p.m. to investigate the odor of marijuana in the hallway. The officer tracked the source of the smell to an apartment but the tenant informed the officer that he “smoked up all his weed” before the officer arrived.

• On March 15 at 3:59 a.m., police responded to Phoenixville Care and Rehab center for the report of a disturbance. A recently terminated employee came to the facility with her husband and wanted to fist fight her former supervisor. The couple was reportedly drunk and they left before the police arrived.

• On March 15 at 7:30 p.m., a 24-year-old Collegeville woman was hit by a car while crossing Bridge Street at Main Street. The pedestrian was taken to Phoenixville Hospital by Trappe Ambulance. The driver, a 20-year-old Limerick man, remained at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation.

• Police responded to a home in the unit block of Franklin Avenue on March 16 at 12:05 a.m. to assist a resident with a leaky hot water heater. Officers Heller and Lee were unable to shut off the water to the heater so the homeowner called a 24/7 plumber.

• On March 16 at 12:13 a.m., a homeless man came to the police station because he fell asleep on a SEPTA bus and missed his stop in Norristown. Officer MacDonald let the 39-yearold man hang out in the police lobby until arrangements could be made to get him into a shelter.

• Police responded to a three car, chain reaction crash on Gay Street at Route 23 on March 16 at 6 p.m. A 20-year-old Phoenixville man was driving a Nissan Murano without a driver’s license and rear-ended a mailman in his mail truck who in turn slammed into a Toyota pick-up. The license-less driver was issued a ticket for the violation.

• On March 17 at 9:39 a.m., a resident in the 400 block of Park Drive reported that she was swindled by an eBay scam. The 33-year-old woman sent a “seller” $1000.00 worth of gift cards as a down payment on a used car and never heard from the seller again.

• Tredyffrin Township Police arrested Katherine Lane, 43 of Malvern, PA on a Phoenixville Police Department arrest warrant on March 17 at 11:25 p.m. The warrant was issued following a cocaine possession incident that occurred at Phoenixville Hospital on January 8. Lane was placed in a holding cell and arraigned on the charges in the morning.

• On March 18 at 12:16 a.m., Officer Dobry arrested a wanted Phoenixville man in the 200 block of Bridge Street. Mark Nalis, 29, had a Chester County bench warrant and was sent directly to the county prison.

• On March 18 at 12:24 a.m., Officer Fusco saw a man walking on Main Street near Walnut Street with a beer in his hand. As the officer approached him, the man hid the beer in his pants. The 25-year-old Havertown man realized he hadn’t been very discreet and surrendered the Miller Lite to the officer. He was issued a summons for the open container ordinance.

• Officers observed an unruly patron being escorted out of PJ Ryan’s Pub by two bouncers on March 18 at 1:01 a.m. The man made two unsuccessful attempts to slide past the bouncers and get back inside the bar, police said. On the third attempt, the 29-year-old Reading, PA man was arrested for public drunkenness and was held until he was sober.

• On March 18 at 3:39 a.m., police responded to the unit block of High Street for a traffic accident. Courtney Bell, 39, of Collegeville, was driving a Toyota Camry and crashed into two parked cars. Bell had a couple of open containers of alcohol in her car and failed a series of field sobriety tests, police said. Bell was arrested for DUI and released to a friend.