Crime & Safety
Man Receives DUI after Driving Without Headlights
All suspects are innocent until proven guilty.
DUI: On Dec. 28, at approximately 10:48 p.m., West Chester police officers observed a vehicle travelling south on Wayne Street at Gay Street without headlights. Officers stopped the vehicle, and after a conversation, the officer observed that he could smell alcohol on the driver. The officer asked the driver to perform field sobriety tests that he allegedly failed.
Drugs: On Jan. 1, as a result of a traffic stop at the intersection of South Franklin Street and East Nields Street police took 20-year-old West Chester resident Matthew Scott into custody for alleged possession of two sandwich bags containing over an ounce of suspected marijuana.
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