Serial drunk-driver pleads guilty to fatality

Crime prompts DA to seek tougher penalties for repeat offenders By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Pat Crowley (left) and District Attorney Tom Hogan listen as Diane Crowley addresses a news conference on increasing penalties for repeat drunk drivers who cause a death. The Crowleys lost their son, Liam James, a year ago, in a crash caused by an eight-time drunk-driver. On Monday,...

Repeat drunk-driver’s mother faces charges

Police say 85-year-old lied on insurance forms about son’s driving  By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times Louise Landis , 85, of West Chester, faces charges after police investigating a fatal motorcycle accident involving her son, a repeat drunk driver, determined that she lied about her son’s driving to her insurance company. The 85-year-old mother of a 50-year-old repeat...

Man accused of DUI after motorcycle crash

Robert Elwood Landis Charges likely to be added after victim’s death  Updated Monday morning WESTTOWN — A Chesterbook man  died on Sunday evening at 7:40 p.m. at Paoli Hospital  after the motorcycle he was riding was struck by a pickup truck at the intersection of Stanton Road and US-202, late Friday, and the truck’s driver was charged with driving while under the influence alcohol...

Driver of allegedly stolen car arrested on Rt. 202

Police said man rented it at Phila. airport and never returned it A Delaware man is behind bars after authorities apprehended him Saturday in a stolen car on Rt. 202, police said Monday. Westtown-East Goshen Regional Police said Officer Peter Keegan was on routine patrol at 4:45 p.m. in a vehicle equipped with a license-plate reader when the device sounded an alert: A stolen vehicle was traveling in...

Police: Would-be Wawa thieves know the drill

Crooks allegedly foiled by efforts to gain entry with power tools Detectives believe this alleged thief specializes in gaining access to Wawa stores with power tools. If police are correct, some tenacious would-be thieves persevered in their attempts to gain entry into a Wawa store in East Goshen because they had been successful in Lower Merion Township. Westtown-East Goshen Regional police said officers...

‘Knock-knock’ burglary attempt reported

Westtown-East Goshen police are hoping someone will recognize this individual, who allegedly posed as a salesman and attempted to break into a home.”‘ Police seeking ID of Thornbury suspect, believed to have posed as  salesman He looks like a clean-cut businessman, but surveillance video suggests he wanted to clean a house of its valuables, a goal effectively deterred by a homeowners’...