{"id":14446,"date":"2013-03-14T06:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T10:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=14446"},"modified":"2013-03-13T21:39:17","modified_gmt":"2013-03-14T01:39:17","slug":"heavy-metal-thefts-weigh-heavily-on-victims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=14446","title":{"rendered":"Heavy-metal thefts weigh heavily on victims"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0State police: Materials have been stolen from variety of venues<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Image<\/a>Heavy-metal thefts continue to plague the area, state police report.<\/p>\n

State police from the Embreeville barracks said sometime between Friday at 2:30 p.m. and Wednesday at 6:30 a.m., someone took materials that were part of a bridge rehabilitation project at Brandywine Creek Road in Newlin Township.<\/p>\n

Police said the theft included five pieces of steel scaffolding valued at $375, 110 pieces of steel tube locks valued at $5,500, and 80 pieces of steel base plates valued at $1,600.<\/p>\n

Sometime between March 4 at 6 p.m. and 11 a.m. on March 5, state police from the Avondale barracks said two, blue-and-chrome, antique gas pumps that belonged to Taylor\u2019s Service were stolen from the unit block of Fairville Road in Pennsbury Township.<\/p>\n

Between 8 a.m. on Feb. 24 and 11:27 a.m. March 3, police from the Avondale barracks said a diamond-plated aluminum gas tank valued at $700 was taken from the 700 block of Wollaston Road in East Marlborough Township.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information regarding any of the thefts is urged to call police at the Embreeville barracks at 484-340-3241 or the Avondale barracks at 610-268-2022.<\/p>\n

State police from the Avondale barracks said Laurencio Vargas Nieva, 35, of West Chester, was driving at an unsafe speed on Sunday at 11:20 a.m. on Rt. 52, west of Red Bridge Lane, in Pocopson Township.\u00a0 Vargas Nieva, who was driving a 1998 Dodge Caravan, failed to negotiate a curve and struck a 2013 Toyota Sienna parked on the northbound shoulder of Rt. 52; one of Vargas Nieva\u2019s three passengers sustained minor injuries; the driver and two children in the Toyota were not hurt, police said.<\/p>\n

On March 6, police said a 16-year-old male from Kennett Square was traveling south on Northbrook Road in East Marlborough Township in a 2006 Jeep at 2:47 p.m. Police said the teen pulled out onto Rt. 926, striking a westbound 1995 GMC Yukon. Police said the teen suffered minor injuries and was cited for failing to yield.<\/p>\n

Another March 6 accident in East Marlborough Township occurred at 4:47 p.m. Police said Humberto Bedolla, 37, of West Grove, was traveling north on Walnut Road in a 2004 Ford pulling a trailer. Bedolla slid on the wet roadway at the intersection with Longwood Road, causing the trailer to hit a 2002 Oldsmobile Alero that had been traveling south on Walnut Road, police said. \u00a0No injuries occurred, but Bedolla was cited, police said.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0State police: Materials have been stolen from variety of venues Heavy-metal thefts continue to plague the area, state police report. State police from the Embreeville barracks said sometime between Friday at 2:30 p.m. and Wednesday at 6:30 a.m., someone took materials that were part of a bridge rehabilitation project at Brandywine Creek Road in Newlin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[1392,1702,1366,1770,2484],"class_list":["post-14446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-east-marlborough-township","tag-newlin-township","tag-pocopson-township","tag-state-police-from-the-avondale-barracks","tag-state-police-from-the-embreeville-barracks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}