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THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER Friday, July 21, 1995 W8 Chester County Police Blotter Unless otherwise attributed, the following reports are based on the statements of local police. Cain A charge of receiving stolen property was filed against Ronald William Cleland, 19, of the 1200 block of East Kings Highway, after police said they found in his car a portable phone stolen from the 1100 block of Stirling Street. Police stopped his car on Fox Avenue at 1 p.m. July 11 for an unspecified traffic violation. The phone was returned to its owner.

Stereo equipment, valued at $200, was reported stolen from a vehicle in r-w The scouts sing songs and tell each other stories around a campfire during the trip, which mixed together 40 scouts ranging from third to 12th grade. It's part of a program at Chester's William Penn Elementary School. Singing, s' mores and storytelling at camp "ft Jfi A Last weekend, Girl Scouts from Chester, Havertown and Upper Darby went camping at Camp Sunset Hill in Chadds Ford. The trip was part of an outreach program. Photographs by David J.

Jackson against Stephen Mark Pendleton, 37,. of the 1500 block of South Street Philadelphia, after police said hep broke into his former girlfriend's apartment in the 600 block of East Lincoln Highway on Sunday and-stole a TV. Police arrested him as he, left the apartment at 1:30 a.m. anff' charged him with trespassing, theft, receiving stolen property, harass-c ment and stalking and criminal chief. He was sent to Chester County Prison when he failed to post baiL Tools, bikes, a sewing machine andj other items, valued at $1,800 total were reported stolen from a garage in the first block of Pennsyl-- vania Avenue between July 8 and A portable stereo and $50 werel reported stolen from an apartmetlt in the 100 block of East Lincoln High-', way between 2 and 9 p.m.

The office at the Ash Park Pool, $1 S. Third was broken into at; 12:50 a.m. Monday. Police responding to a burglar alarm found a window had been cut. Nothing was, missing.

-ii r. Tredyffrin Golf clubs, valued at $1,000, reported stolen from a home in the-600 block of General Scott Road at 2:54 p.m. July 11. The clubs had been left in the driveway while a resident waited inside for a friend to pick him; up. i A compact disc player and stereo, valued at a total of $200, were re ported stolen from a desk of thes Aetna Health offices in the 900 block'; of Chesterbrook Boulevard at 10:04 a.m.

July 11. --i Jewelry, valued at $20,000, was re- ported stolen from an upstairs bed-, room of a home in the 1100 block of Upper Gulph Road at 6:30 p.m. last Friday. Entry was gained by remov-i ing a rear window screen and break-; ing the window. A 1987 Subaru GL, valued at $8,000 was reported stolen from the Paoli train station between 3 and 11:40 p.m.

Saturday. Mailboxes, valued at $25 to $5( each, were damaged Saturday night in the first block of Williams 100 block of Bodine Road, first block; of Birch Lane, 1500 block of Russell Road, and first block of Old State' Road. A knapsack containing about $100. was reported stolen from a parked in the Gateway Shopping Center between 3:45 and 11:30 p.m., July 12. Willistown Electronic equiment and video" games, valued together at were reported stolen from a Dutton Mill Road house July 12 or 13.

if DUI arrests The following people were af-; rested on charges of driving under; the influence of alcohol. State law' prohibits driving with a blood-alco-I hoi content of 0.100 percent or greater. Refusal to submit to alcohol-testing results in a one-year suspend sion of driving privileges. Robert Francis King, 36, of the 100 block of Cabot Court, Downingtown, was arrested at' 12:45 a.m. July 2 after police saw his pickup truck weaving on West Chester Pike, between' Strasburg Road and Route 202, West He gave blood at Chester County Hospital for blood-alcohol testing.

Stephen Sample, 31, of the 300 block ot Broad Street, Oxford, was arrested July 4 after police saw him driving carelessly on South, Fourth Street, Oxford. A test showed he had a' blood-alcohol level of 0.170 percent. He was" also charged with driving while his license was. suspended license, careless driving, and drlv-' ing without insurance. A'S Christopher W.

Hanlon, 23, of West Second Street in Essington was arrested at 10:5 p.m. July 12 after Tredyffrin police stopped his car on Lancaster Avenue at Greenwood Road, Paoli, because it had an expired inspect tion sticker. He failed field sobriety tests; blood was drawn at Paoli Memorial Hospital for blood-alcohol testing. Paul G. Boice, 53, of Sheridan Lane, Jeffer-J sonville, was stopped after police saw his car on Route 202 near West Valley Road, Tredyf frin, at 12:06 a.m.

July .13. He failed field; sobriety tests and refused blood-alcohol test-1 ing- William Richard Truax 24, of the 400 block of Filman Road, Downingtown, was arrested at 2:55 a.m. last Friday after he twice, sped past Uwchlan police on his motorcycles along Route 113, once near Woodland Drive! and the second time near Garris Road. failed field sobriety tests and gave blood at Brandywine Hospital for blood-alcohol testing Wagdy A. Okaily, 18, of Winding River Board hands off pay-raise baton to Twenty-eight Chesco school officials will get increases.

An outside firm will decide on the amount. By Connie Langland INQUIRER STAFF WRITER The governing board of the Chester County Intermediate Unit has approved raises for administrators at the agency for 1996 and 1997. But don't ask how much. The board doesn't know. Over objections from three board members, an eight-member majority of the board agreed to pay 28 aides to executive director John K.

Baillie according to a formula established by the Hay Group, a management consulting firm with offices in Philadelphia. Members Jim Davison of West Chester, Leonard Fredericks of the 2500 block of Clothier Street between 2 and 9:20 a.m. July 12. Coatesville Theft charges are contained in a warrant for the arrest of contractor Edward S. Fedourich, 30, formerly of the 800 block of West First Avenue, Parkesburg.

Police said he failed to complete repairs on a house in the first block of South Fourth Avenue after the homeowner paid him $8,500. The homeowner, a retired woman, told police she picked his name from the phone book last June and hired him after he showed her a Parkesburg house he said he had worked on. She said she took out a bank loan for $11,000 and gave him a $6,000 check last July 20 and another one for $2,500 on Aug. 12. He removed part of the roof, gutters and back steps but did not finish the work and left the debris behind, she said.

Police said the woman tried to contact Fedourich at his Parkesburg address but the phone had been disconnected. Police said he had moved to his mother's home in Johnson City, N.Y., and said he would be arrested there. Police also discovered he was wanted for bouncing a $334 check at a Downingtown lumber yard. Two 26-year-old men have been accused of offering to drop robbery charges against another man in return for $1,000. Arrested on charges of conspiracy, extortion, obstructing justice and harassment were Ronald Anthony Es-.

trella, of no permanent address, and Ronald David Jennings, of the first block of Toth Avenue, Cain. Estrella had reported to police that on June 22 he was sitting on a porch in the first block of South Fourth Avenue when Ronald "Duper" Pooler, 23, held a handgun to his neck, took $20 from his pockets, ripped a gold chain from his neck and drove off in a maroon Oldsmo-bile Cutlass. The car was found nearby and towed away, and Pooler was arrested later that day after reporting it stolen. At Pooler's preliminary hearing June 28 before District Justice Bren-. da Bicking, his attorney told police that Jennings had contacted the Pooler family and said Estrella would drop the charges for $1,600.

Police said they settled on $1,000 and agreed to meet in the Shop Fresh parking lot in the 300 block of East Lincoln Highway at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Police gave Pooler the cash in marked bills and then wired him to record the meeting where he turned it over. Estrella and Jennings were arrested on the scene and the cash was found in Jennings' pocket, police said. The two were arraigned before District Justice Larry Smith and were sent to Chester County Prison when they failed to post bail.

A gold watch, valued at $300, a wallet and $7 cash were reported stolen from a 66-year-old man's home in the first block of North Third Avenue Tuesday. He told police he let a woman into his house at 4 a.m. because she said she had no place to sleep. She slept on the couch, and while he was taking a nap later that day he heard her rush out of the house and discovered that the items weremissing. Burglaries were reported at two Coates Street churches.

Lamps and a tape recorder, valued together at $220, and $200 cash were stolen from the Holy Tabernacle Church, 533 Coates between 11:30 p.m. July 13 and 4:15 p.m. the next day. Entry was through a bathroom window. An offering box, valued at $400, was stolen from the Tabernacle Baptist Church, 819 Coates between 7:30 p.m.

Sunday and 12:50 p.m. the next day. Filing cabinets were broken into and a fence in the basement around a safe was cut. An armed robbery was reported at 1:20 p.m. Sunday at Eighth Avenue and Diamond Street.

A 27-year-old Parkesburg man told police he was driving along the street when several men came up to him and tried to sell him drugs. They then jumped inside the car and demanded his wallet, one of them pulling out a handgun. He gave them the wallet, containing $37, and they got out. He drove off and they threw rocks and bottles at the car. A 39-year-old Thorndale man was attacked and robbed as he walked on Harmony Street, west of Third Avenue, at 3:40 a.m.

Sunday. He told police that possibly two men attacked him and took his wallet, containing $76. He was treated at Brandywine Hospital. Cash totaling $200 was reported stolen from Gilly's bar and restaurant, 21 N. Second at 5 a.m.

Monday. Police said the burglar or burglars broke in through a third-floor window, descended to the second floor and broke through the ceiling into the bar. A burglary charge was filed Inquiry finds no proof in prison allegations Getting ready for their first night Hart unpack clothes in their tent Coatesville and Sebastian Ruffini of Downingtown voted no after trying to table the pay plan until fall. Board member Leslie Lloyd of Avon Grove, who helped draft the pay pact, was absent. "My objection is philosophical," said Jim Davison, representing the West Chester Ara schools.

"I want to see a breakdown what those numbers are going to be. I want to know the dollar down to the dime before I vote to approve these raises." Hans Jungk, who headed negotiations for the board, countered that little would be gained by holding up the contract settlement until fall. The board would see the 1996 pay to the prison official until a reporter told him about it Monday. Sarcione said that the woman inmate, although sentenced to a state prison term, had been kept in the county jail for a year by then-Warden Thomas Frame because she was a "good worker." Sarcione and Zagorskie said they found nothing odd about that. They said other state prisoners had been kept in the county jail because they possessed special skills.

After Frame retired last spring, the inmate was sent to the state women's prison in Muncy. Zagorskie said that when interviewed by county detectives, Stretton had provided only secondhand information and had declined to name his sources. Sarcione said the entire episode could have been avoided had Stretton quietly gone to state or federal authorities if he did not trust the District Attorney's Office. "Instead, he chose to gather whatever political publicity he could generate without any evidence to support his claims," Sarcione said. eowy a Hutchins (left) and Krystal consultant Criticism over pay levels and bonus awards prompted the board to rethink administrative pay two years ago.

While the agency still uses Hay, the pay levels reflect pay levels in the nonprofit sector, rather than in the whole of private industry. Baillie's four senior aides earn as much as some local school superintendents in the county. Baillie's salary for this year is $141,500. He contributed $5,200 of that salary to a scholarship fund. Two senior aides are earning more than $100,000 this year, while five others are earning more than $84,000.

"On the whole," said Jungk, "these administrators are paid comparably to people in similar jobs in the nonprofit sectorl." on body suitcase with copper buttons. Parts of her body were missing. Police declined to say what parts. Fingerprints taken from the woman, who police believe to have been in her late teens or early 20s, were entered into the Automated Fingerprint Identity System, a national database, last week, Gomez said. If she had ever been arrested, served in the military or been fingerprinted for any other reason, her prints would be in the database, he explained, adding that it might take more than a week to determine that.

State police, who have solicited the public's help in gathering information, are chasing down leads from telephone calls already received. All tips were being investigated, they said. Police departments in the area and throughout the nation have been notified. Local police around East Cain said they had received no missing-person reports matching the woman's description. According to Sarcione, the suitcase was "dropped or placed" on the wooded bank of Valley Creek but the woman was not killed there.

He declined to elaborate. A pathologist determined from an autopsy performed last week that the woman had been dead about a week. The pathologist, however, could not determine the cause of death. County investigators said they sent blood samples to National Medical Services in Willow Grove for help in concluding whether the woman had drugs, alcohol, medicine or other substances in her body that might have caused her death. According to the coroner's office, the toxicology report will be finished in about 10 days.

sleeping in the woods, Lakesha by the light of a hand lamp. awards but not the 1997 figures. Any multiyear settlement "is an act of faith," said Jungk. "You're making judgment, hoping for the best. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose." He said that by relying on Hay, the money issue is resolved by the consultant, not the board.

"You haven't anything left to diddle with," he said. There is no cap to how much the settlement might cost the agency, which gets its funding from local school districts, plus state and federal sources. This year the administrators won an average 4.3 percent increase; the figure was 6.5 percent in 1994. The agency has relied on Hay for more than a decade to set salaries for the top tier of workers, including Baillie. Still no ID found in a State police are trying to identify the mutilated woman through her fingerprints.

By Rachel E. Stassen-Bcrger INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT State police have been checking out tips, using a national database of fingerprints, and interviewing potential witnesses, but have yet to identify the young woman whose mutilated body was found in a suitcase in Valley Creek last week. Officials said yesterday that finding out the woman's identity was their priority. "We'll exhaust all leads until we have no other leads or avenues of exploration," said Lt. David Connon of the state police barracks at Em-breeville, which is in charge of the investigation.

If authorities do not get a fingerprint match and all tips fail to pan out, their next step would be to cir-. culate a sketch of the woman publicly. "We're in the processes of coming up with a computer-enhanced picture at this point," said District Attorney Anthony Sarcione, adding that it was hard to say by when the sketch would be ready. State police said they were handling the case as an isolated incident. "At this point, we do not believe it is connected in any way to any other situation," said Trooper Edward Gomez, also of Embreeville.

The woman's body was found by a fisherman July 11 in the tributary of the Brandywine Creek in East Cain. Investigators said she had short brown hair and brown eyes, and was wearing a light-blue jetton shirt PRISON from W1 bility exhibited here is extremely unfair to those whose reputations are potentially tarnished by his remarks." Stretton, who earlier in the week said that Sarcione was too politically compromised to conduct a thorough investigation, could not be reached for comment. At the news conference yesterday, Zagorskie said his detectives had interviewed the inmate and her doctors, and had also checked her medical records. The woman denied having had any sexual relationship with the deputy warden, and her doctors and medical records showed no evidence of an abortion or a pregnancy, he said. Sarcione and Zagorskie confirmed that Zagorskie's wife, Paoli attorney Dolores Troiani, represents the deputy warden in a divorce action.

Both men said they saw no conflict of interest in Zagorskie's supervising an investigation of his wife's client. The district attorney said he had not known of Zagorskie's connection to- mid Lane, Phoenixville, was stopped at 3:08 B.rrw last Friday after police saw him driving th wrong way on the one-way section of Swedesford Road at the Route 202 south exit in Tredyffrin. Blood was drawn at Paoli Memorial Hospital for blood-alcohol analysis. Christine C. Casey, 29, of Rexton Driver West Chester, was charged after she was" involved in an accident on Swedesford Road at the Route 202 south on-ramp in Tredyffrin at! 9:54 p.m.

last Friday. She failed field sobriety tests; blood was drawn at Paoli Memorial Hospital for blood-alcohol testing. vl Gary Lee Conlon, 37, of the first block of Ramblewood Lane, rural Coatesville, was rested at 2:40 a.m. Saturday after police saw him driving erratically on Route 113 near Peck Road, Uwchlan. He failed field sobriety tests and gave blood at Brandywine Hospital for.

blood-alcohol testing. Michael J. Jones of Spaulding Avenue, Pomeroy, was arrested at 2:40 a.m. Saturday after police saw him drive through a red light at Lincoln Highway and North Bailey Cain. He failed field sobriety tests and gave, blood at Brandywine Hospital for blood-alco hoi analysis.

Douglas William McConnell, 36, of Doug-, lassville, Berks County, was arrested at a.m. Sunday after his car crashed Into an, embankment and a utility pole along Old Schuylkill Road, near Ellis Woods Road, East Coventry, state police at Embreeville said. Sean David Connor, 19, of Coatesville, wa arrested at 11:30 p.m. Monday after stat police at Embreeville saw him driving erratically on the Route 30 bypass, between Roula 113 and Reeceville Road, Cain. He also wa charged with speeding and underage Wendy Walker lj and Laura Gmad.