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MD12 THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Thursday, February 4, 1993 Police Blotter Athletes of the Week Shopping Center. Upper Darby After shots were fired outside a McDonald's restaurant. 133 S. 69th Stat 6:07 p.m. Sunday, charges of making terroristic threats, harassment, i vi Chris Hoyle men thai came out nervous for a basketball game for the first time in a long time last Tuesday.

Her family was in the stands. Her friends. The school principal. It was supposed to be her big day the day she was poised to become the third Chichester female player to score 1,000 points in her career. One small problem her nerves affected her usually reliable shooting touch.

"I was all nerves," Blumenthal said. "In the halls at school, everyone was asking, 'How many points do you And then I get to the game and everyone's there waiting for me to score. And it wasn't like all I needed was one basket." In fact, she needed 24 points to reach 1,000. After shaking off her nerves, which caused her to miss her first four shots, she really got it going, scoring 30 points to lead the Eagles to a 60-32 victory over Academy Park. Blumenthal reached the mark on a backdoor layup with 7 minutes, 53 seconds left.

The game was stopped. A plaque was presented to Blumenthal. But the celebrating didn't stop there. After the game, she went out to dinner with her friends and yes, it was their treat. Blumenthal is hoping to get a little more lucrative free ride next year a college scholarship.

She certainly has an impressive resume. As a freshman starter, she averaged 13 points and six rebounds per game. As a sophomore, despite having to wear a harness on her dislocated left shoulder, Blumenthal again posted big numbers, scoring 17 points per game. This season, she has continued to flourish, averaging 21 points and 11 rebounds per game. Bill Doherty Jamie Blumenthal Every once in a while, they can be seen in the sports portion of the 11 o'clock news or ESPN's SportsCenter.

Those seemingly once-in-a-lifetime shots. The halfcourt shots to beat the buzzer. The holes-in-one on the golf course. In the past year, Haverford High's Chris Hoyle has seen shots like that too. The difference? He's the one who has made them.

Last summer, Hoyle one of the state's top high school golfers fired a hole-in-one on the 190-yard fourth hole at Llanerch Country Club. The strange part was that Hoyle was the last to know. "The pin was tucked in a way that you couldn't see it from the tee," said Hoyle, who finished seventh at the district tournament and 14th at the PIAA state golf championships this past season. "So I was surprised when I walked up to the green and couldn't find my ball. I didn't know until I got there that I had hit the shot." The same can't be said for Hoyle's latest amazing shot.

This time, he saw the whole thing. And he had a lot more folks to celebrate with. With three-tenths of a second left on the clock, Hoyle banked in an 80-foot, one-handed heave off the backboard to give the Fords a 56-53 victory over Conestoga last Friday night. "I figured we were going into overtime, so I just caught the in-bounds pass and threw it," said Hoyle, who is averaging 18 points per game. "It got about halfway and I started to think that it had a chance to go in.

When it went in, I just said, 'Holy Then I turned to the referee to make sure it counted. When he signaled it was good, I went nuts." Chichester High junior Jamie Blu- Basketball officer responded to a report of a fight in the 600 block of Baltimore Pike and found a woman sitting on the curb. She said McNamee had beaten her, then tried to push her out of his moving car on Baltimore Pike. The woman was able to get out of the car safely, but said McNamee then tried to run her over. Onlookers pulled the woman out of the way and pointed the car out to police, who stopped it and arrested McNamee.

McNamee also was charged with simple and aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, making terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and driving under the influence. He was arraigned before District Justice Joseph DiPietro and sent to Delaware County Prison after failing to post 10 percent of $10,000 bail. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for next Thursday. Theft charges were filed against Alannya Thomas, 18, of the 1200 block of South 28th Street, and Naee-mah Crump, 26, of the 1300 block of Fitzwater Street, lxth of Philadelphia, after police arrested them following a car chase about 8:50 p.m. last Thursday.

Police gave this account: An officer saw Thomas, Crump and two other women run from the Springfield Mall, get into a car and speed away on Sproul Road. The officer followed them with his siren and lights on. During the chase, the officer said he saw shopping bags being thrown from the car. At Yale and Morton Avenues, the car hit a curb and came to a stop. The four women ran off, but Thomas and Crump were caught by police in the area.

Police recovered the shopping bags thrown from the car and said they contained merchandise valued at $2,139. About $630 in items had been taken from the Gantos store in the Springfield Mall and about $1,500 in merchandise was from a Burlington Coat Factory in Clifton Heights. Thomas, who police said was driv-ing, was charged with retail theft, receiving stolen property, criminal conspiracy, disorderly conduct, reckless endangerment, fleeing police, reckless and careless driving, four motor-vehicle violations and driving without a license. Crump was charged with retail theft, receiving stolen property, criminal conspiracy and disorderly conduct. Thomas and Crumpwere released after posting 10 percent of $10,000 bail each.

A preliminary hearing for both was scheduled for next Thursday. A two-door, 1987 Cadillac Seville was reported stolen from the parking lot of Strawbridge Clothier, Baltimore Pike and Woodland Avenue, between 1 and 2 p.m. last Thursday. Theft charges were filed against Darryl Payton, 28, of Trenton, and Carlton Mack, 27, of Newark, who are accused of trying to buy items with a fake gift certificate at Wilson's Suede Leather in the Granite Run Mall about 5:15 p.m. Jan.

26. Police said Payton was detained at the store by Wilson's employees. Mack was caught by police at the mall's trolley station. Police said they found a number of items in the men's car that had been purchased with fake gift certificates. Payton and Mack were charged with receiving stolen property, attempted theft and conspiracy.

They were arraigned before District Justice Joseph DiPietro and released after posting bail, set at 10 percent of $1,500 for Payton and 10 percent of $330 for Mack. A preliminary hearing for both men was scheduled for today. Stereo and television equipment was reported stolen from two vehicles parked at Springfield Dodge, 770 Baltimore Pike, at 11:35 a.m. Jan. 25.

Damage to the vehicles and the value of the items were estimated at a total Continued from preceding page passenger seat. An investigation was continuing. Sunglasses, five tapes and a JVC tape deck, valued together at $100, were reported stolen from a 1986 Subaru station wagon parked in the first block of Byre Lane betwen 8 and 11:59 p.m. Jan. 26.

Newtown Two Craftsman chain saws, valued at a total of $320, were reported stolen from a garage in the 200 block of Aronimink Drive before Saturday. Radnor A box of "dynamite" reported on a porch in the 400 block of St Davids Avenue last Thursday turned out to be a box containing a car battery with the brand name Dynamite. Officers, responding to a neighbor's report, found the battery around 3:45 p.m. Two credit cards were reported stolen from the unzipped purse of a Wayne woman while she was shopping at the Lancaster Farmers Market on Lancaster Avenue around 5 p.m. Friday.

The woman told police she reported the theft after returning home and was told the cards already had been used to make purchases totaling $192.99 at a Gap store in Northeast Philadelphia. She said she remembered a man standing closely behind her at the market's meat counter. A wallet containing $100 and credit cards was reported stolen from the handbag of a 75-year-old Philadelphia woman as she shopped at the Lancaster Farmers Market around 2:45 p.m. Saturday. The woman told police she remembered a man standing behind her and humming.

When she turned around, he was gone, and so was her wallet. A charge of making a false report has been filed against Douglas Jay McGowan, 24, of the first block of Twin Pines Way, Glen Mills, who had reported his car stolen Jan. 23. Police said McGowan admitted last Thursday that he was the driver of the car that ran across the lawn and hedges at a property in the 500 block of West Beechtree Lane, Wayne, about 7:55 a.m. Jan.

23 and then left the scene. He had been involved in an accident on Ivycroft Road in Tredyffrin Township the same day, police said, and then reported his car stolen that night. Radnor police also cited McGowan for trespassing with a motor vehicle and driving while his license was suspended. Ridley Township An aggravated-assault charge was filed against Thomas Mitchell, 22, of the 100 block of Taylor Avenue, Woodlyn, who is accused of assaulting a woman in her apartment in the 1800 block of Constitution Avenue at 12:30 a.m. Sunday.

A police affidavit gave this account: The woman, who knew Mitchell, said he was waiting in her apartment when she came home and grabbed her by the hair and pulled her into the bedroom. He threw her into the bedpost and punched her in the face. She called police and they arrested Mitchell outside the apartment. He also was charged with simple assault, reckless endangerment, harassment and disorderly conduct. He was arraigned before District Justice Robert Shaffer and released after signing a $2,500 bail pledge.

A preliminary hearing was to be scheduled. A theft charge was filed against Donna Gould, 24, of the 300 block of Holmes Road, Holmes, who is accused of taking $220 from the storage room of the Plaza Laundromat, 2107 MacDade on Saturday or Sunday. Police said Gould, an employee of the coin laundry, said she took the money to buy drugs. She also was charged with receiving stolen property. She was arraigned before District Justice Robert Shaffer and released after signing a $2,500 bail pledge.

A preliminary hearing was to be scheduled. Springfield A charge of attempted involuntary manslaughter was filed against John McNamee, 24, of the 700 block of North 64th Street, Philadelphia, who is accused of beating a woman and trying to run her over with his car on Baltimore Pike about 11:10 p.m. Friday. Police gave this account: A police Shots from a BB or pellet gun shattered the window of a 1986 Chevrolet Astro van on Route 202 near Henderson Road at 7 p.m. Jan.

23. DUI arrests The following people were arrested on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol. State law prohibits driving with a blood-alcohol content of 0.100 percent or greater. Matthew Bergen, 35, of Clinton Road, Upper Darby, was arrested after police saw him swerve off the road and run a red light on Baltimore Pike near Sproul Road, Springfield, at 1:38 a.m. Jan.

22. Bergen failed field sobriety tests. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for March 11. Frank W. Bora 64, of the 1500 block of Monk Road, Gladwyne, was charged after being stopped by Haverford Township police for making a wide turn into oncoming traffic in the 900 block of Haverford Road about 5:35 p.m.

Jan. 26. Found on the front seat of the car, police said, was a coffee mug containing vodka and orange juice. Bora failed a field sobriety test and registered 0. 13 percent on a breath-alcohol test.

Usanio Cipollone 57, of Devon, was stopped after police saw him driving erratically on West Chester Pike and Route 252, Newtown, about 1:50 a.m. Jan. 27. He failed field sobriety tests; Blood was drawn at Mercy Haverford Hospital for blood-alcohol analysis. Cipollone also was charged with two motor-vehicle violations, but the report did not say which.

Thomas F. Ambrogi, 39, of the 1200 block of Bryan Street, Drexel Hill, was charged after a two-vehicle accident at Darby and Eagle Roads, Havertown, about 4:25 p.m. Jan. 27. Haverford police said Ambrogi's car struck the rear of a pickup truck, operated by John Dempsey of Clifton Heights, which was stopped for a red light.

Police said that Ambrogi had the odor of alcohol on his breath and slurred speech and that he was unsteady on his feet. He was unable to complete a field sobriety test or a breath-alcohol test. Michael Henderson, 32, of New Castle, was charged after police saw him driving erratically in the 1 100 block of Baltimore Pike, Springfield, at 9:47 p.m. Jan. 27.

He was arraigned before District Justice Joseph L. DiPietro and sent to Delaware County Prison when he failed to post 10 percent of $25,000 bail. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for next Thursday. Paul M. Benn, 39, of the 1200 block of Bobarn Drive, Narberth, was charged after his car was stopped about 10:45 p.m.

last Thursday because it was covered with dirt and foliage. Lower Merion police said the car had gone off the road in the 400 block of Conshohocken State Road, striking several shrubs and traveling on a front lawn. When stopped a few blocks away, Benn told police he was not able to recall the incident. He registered 0.21 percent on a breath-alcohol test. He also was charged with careless driving and leaving the scene of an accident.

David M. Murphy, 34, of the 600 block of Astor Street, Norristown, was charged after police saw his car weaving on Route 202 near Henderson Road, Upper Merion, Friday. Murphy failed a field sobriety test and refused a blood-alcohol test. Nicolas Quinones, 21, of Stratford, N.J., was arrested after police saw him driving erratically at Route 30 and Old Lancaster Road, Tredyffrin, at 2:33 a.m. Friday.

He failed field sobriety tests; blood was drawn at Paoli Memorial Hospital for blood-alcohol analysis. Robert Pippin, 60, of West Chester, was stopped after police saw him driving erratically on West Chester Pike near Pomona Avenue, Newtown, at 1:40 a.m. Saturday. Pippin failed a field sobriety test. Blood was drawn at Paoli Memorial Hospital for blood-alcohol analysis.

Lawrence Guyer, 41, of the 1300 block Garden Road, Philadelphia, was charged after being stopped by Radnor Township police at 1:48 a.m. Saturday for failing to maintain his lane on East Lancaster Avenue near Route 320. Police said Guyer had the odor of alcohol and registered 0.12 percent on a breath-alcohol test. Thomas Greenley, 47, of the 400 block of Governor Printz Boulevard, Lester, was charged after his vehicle struck a guardrail and a cyclone fence on Second Street at Tinicum Island Road, Lester, at 8:47 p.m. Saturday.

Tinicum Township police said he failed a field sobriety test. Joseph Lowrey, 44, of the 1400 block of Continental Circle, Phoenixville, was arrested after police saw him driving erratically at North Valley and Swedesford Roads, Tredyffrin, at 12:49 a.m. Saturday. Lowrey failed field sobriety tests; blood was drawn at Paoli Memorial Hospital for blood-alcohol analysis. Harry T.

Peck, 26, of Gap, Lancaster County, was stopped after police saw him driving erratically on southbound Route 202 near the Paoli exit, Tredyffrin, at 3:14 a.m. Saturday. Peck failed field sobriety tests and refused a blood-alcohol test. Bernard P. McGinley.

51, of the 200 block of Louis Drive, Exton, was arrested after police saw him driving erratically at Route 30 and Conestoga Road, Radnor, at 2:43 a.m. Saturday. He failed field sobriety tests; blood was drawn at Paoli Memorial Hospital for blood-alcohol analysis. William O'Reilly, 35, of Broomall, was stopped after police saw him speeding on West Chester Pike at Roe Lane, Newtown, at 2:15 a.m. Sunday.

O'Reilly failed a field sobriety test and refused a blood test. He was arraigned before District Justice Gerald C. Liberace and released after signing a $1,000 bail pledge. A preliminary hearing was scheduled for next Thursday. Richard Edward Curlott, 54, of the 100 block of Airy Street, Norristown, was charged after police said he was driving recklessly down Second Street, Bridgeport, at 2:50 a.m.

Sunday. He failed field sobriety tests and registered 0.114 percent blood-alcohol content on a breath test. Marlene Bogdon, 26, of the first block of Elm Street, Plymouth, was stopped after police saw her driving erratically on Route 30 between Berkeley and Valley Forge Roads, Tredyffrin, at 1:38 a.m. Sunday. She failed field sobriety tests; blood was drawn at Paoli Memorial Hospital for blood-alcohol analysis.

Ada Zdun, 55, of the 200 block of Brownlie Road, King of Prussia, was arrested after police saw her driving erratically on flou'e 30 near the Milepost Inn, Tredyffrin, at 2:49 a.m. Sunday. She failed field sobriety tests; blood was drawn at Paoli Memorial Hospital for blood-alcohol analysis. Martin Regan, 20, of the 200 block of Sunset Road, Wayne, was charged at 1:30 a.m. Monday after his car struck a curb in the 500 block of South Ithan Avenue, Villanova, lost its bumper and grille and became disabled.

Radnor police said Regan had the odor of alcohol on his breath, failed a field sobriety test and registered 0.18 percent on a breath-alcohol test. He also was charged with underage drinking. David Patrick Soley, 26. of the 200 block of Avon Road, Upper Darby, was charged after being stopped by Haverford police for driving erratically on Earlington Road, near Covington Road, about 1:35 a.m. Monday.

Police said Soley had the odor of alcohol on his breath, failed a field sobriety test and registered 0.1 1 percent on a breath-alcohol test. He also was cited for driving a vehicle with an expired registration. James Cordrey, Michelle R. Davis, Christopher Durso, Claire Furia, Mary Anne Janco, Kathi Kaulfman, Robert F. O'Neill, Marilou Regan and Cheryl Squadrito reckless endangerment and simple assault were filed against Wakeen Moore, 18, of the 200 block of Beverly Boulevard.

Police gave this account: Five juveniles were approached by Moore, two 17-year-old Philadelphia boys and a 17-year-old Philadelphia girl. There was a confrontation, and one of the three males pulled a gun out and fired two shots at a car the five juveniles had entered. Police searched the area and found Moore and the 17-year-old youths hiding on Rocklyn Road near a bank. One of them was holding a revolver. Juvenile petitions will be filed against the two male juveniles for assault and related offenses; no charges were filed against the girl.

Moore was released after signing a $5,000 bail pledge. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday. An aggravated-assault charge was filed against Thomas Ongay, of the 2500 block of North Seventh Street, Philadelphia, in an incident that began when police saw him sleeping in the 69th Street Terminal at 6:15 a.m. Sunday. Police said they woke Ongay, who was sleeping cn a bench, and asked him to leave, but he refused.

Police then escorted him out of the terminal, but within a few minutes he returned. When police again asked Ongay to leave, he became violent and combative and struck two officers numerous times, police said. Ongay, also charged with simple assault, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, was sent to Delaware County Prison after failing to post 10 percent of $1,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday. Charges of criminal attempt at theft and writing bad checks were filed against Anthony T.

Lee, 29, of the 800 block of North 46th Street, Philadelphia, who is accused of trying to pay for jewelry with fake traveler's checks at the Sears store, 69th and Walnut Streets, at 5:45 p.m. Friday. Police said Lee attempted to buy $309 in jewelry with the altered checks and said someone else had given him the orders as payment for $150 Lee had given him. Lee was sent to Delaware County Prison after failing to post 10 percent of $5,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday.

A burglary charge was filed against Terry G. Scott, 22, of the 7000 block of Park Place, Philadelphia, in connection with the theft of two cars from Wright's Auto Body, 41 S. Union Ave. Police said that at 9:53 a.m. Sunday the owner told them a 1992 Buick Regal and a 1993 Subaru Legacy had been stolen.

At 2:23 p.m. that day, the owner told police he had found Scott with the Subaru and recovered it. He said Scott had worked for him as a handyman. Police said Scott admitted the burglary. He also was charged with theft, receiving stolen property, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and criminal mischief.

He was sent to Delaware County Prison after failing to post 10 percent of $2,500 bail. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Monday. A woman's purse was snatched as she walked into the Blue Comet Restaurant, 106 E. Baltimore Pike, at 7:36 p.m. Saturday.

The woman told police that as she walked from the restaurant parking lot to the building, she saw a man standing by the ramp to the restaurant When she turned away for a moment, he struck her on the left side of her face and knocked her to the ground. The man took her pock-etbook and ran off. The purse contained $60, credit cards, a money access card and a driver's license. Upper Merioit A Macintosh Powerbook computer, valued at $3,800, was reported stolen from Computerware King of Prussia, at 1:30 p.m. Friday.

An employee reported the theft when she returned from lunch. The computer had been left unattended on her desk. A 1992 Ford Explorer, valued at $28,500, was reoported stolen from the parking garage of the Court at King of Prussia, between 7 and 9:25 p.m. Saturday. Prussia malls room, he heard the assailant going through the desk drawers at the front counter.

The cashier came out of the back room when he heard the door beeper signal the assailant's exit The assailant was described as a white male between 25 and 27 years old, 5 feet, 7 inches tall, 150 pounds, with dark hair and a slight Eastern European accent. He was wearing a teal waist-length jacket and a gold earring in his left ear. The other robbery was at the Court garage at 2:10 p.m., where a man was followed to his car by another car, and then robbed of his briefcase and told to empty his pockets. The briefcase had receipts from a store in the court that the victim was taking to the bank to be deposited. Police gave no estimate of the amount of money in the briefcase and would not identify the store.

The victim described the assailants as two men, about 25 years old, driving a late 1970s or early 1980s Chevrolet Monte Carlo. James Cordrey 'MA 1 I' 4 X. 1 i in Tiiilmw' 2 fLi, 2 armed robberies at King of of $2,000. Two tires and two rims, valued at a total of $900, were reported stolen from a car parked at Iacones' Sunoco station, Saxer Avenue and Powell Road, overnight Jan. 23.

An undisclosed amount of damage was done to the car's undercarriage. Tinicum A 1980 Chevrolet truck, valued at $2,000, was reported stolen Friday evening from Interstate 95 south near Route 420, where it had become disabled last Thursday. Tredyffrin An electric motor and headlights, valued at $700, were reported stolen Friday from a snowplow on the front of a 1986 Jeep parked at the Paoli Tall Attire Store in the Plaza, when a man entered the store at 10 a.m., pulled a gun from inside his jacket and told the cashier to open the register and back away. The man took three days' worth of receipts and told the cashier to go into the back room. While the cashier was in the back Freeman was indicted in December along with his father, Russell Freeman, also of Chester.

His brother, Russell Freeman who at the time was living in Chadds Ford, was arrested last summer on drug charges. They and 13 others, who also were indicted, are accused of being involved in a multimillion-dollar drug ring and using Federal Express to ship drugs and money across the country. lAarilou Regan For The Inquirer LAURENCE ESTER SON Chichester's Larry Jackson floats to the hoop as he lays a shot in against Academy Park. Chichester won Tuesday's game, 61-57. Smith leads comeback as Chichefster prevails UPPER MERI0N Police are investigating two armed robberies that 'occurred at the Court and Plaza in JOng of Prussia Monday, just hours apart.

Police do not think the robberies are connected, said Capt. Frank Ferlick. I According to Upper Merion Police reports, $1,015 was taken from the Man indicted in drug case is slain By Jeremy Treatman INQUIRER CORRKSHONDENT Chichester's Charles Smith has been hot before. At last year's District 1 Class AAAA playoff game against Glen Mills, he scored 35 points in his team's three-point loss. In another great performance Jan.

26, Smith scorched the Bulls for 29 more, as the Eagles defeated Glen Mills for the first time in seven years. But the 6-foot, 6-inch, Rider College-bound forward topped both those efforts Tuesday night. Smith scored 15 of the Eagles' 17 points in a (our-minute stretch of the fourth quarter, as Chichester came from 10 points down to stun host Academy Park, 61-57. In the stretch, Smith made a three- Boys' Roundup pointer, two dunks, two free throws and three jump shots with nary a miss. When his hot shooting ended, the Knights' 48-41 lead was all of a sudden a 56-52 Chichester advantage.

'This was definitely the best stretch of basketball I ever had," said Smith, who finished with 25 points. "I was in a zone and they weren't coming out to get me and I just kept hitting. This was even better than how I played against Glen Mills the last two times." You won't get an argument about that from Academy Park coach Rick Pergolini. Continued on next page CHESTER A Chester man who had been indicted by a federal grand jury on drug-trafficking charges was found dead after being shot about 20 times. Police responded to reports of a shooting about 1:40 a.m.

Friday and found the body of Anthony Freeman, 24, of the 800 block of West Second Street, in the front seat of a car near his home. Freeman was taken to Crozer-Chester Medical Center, Upland, where he was pronounced dead about 2:25 a.m..