ARREST >> At roughly 11:30 p.m. on July 9 police carried out a site visitors cease on the operator of a black Mercedes-Benz C300 for committing a automobile code violation on Durham Street. Upon talking with the operator, the officer detected the sturdy odor of an alcoholic beverage. The operator was unable to satisfactorily carry out discipline sobriety checks and was positioned underneath arrest for suspicion of driving underneath the affect. Fees are pending blood proof outcomes.
ARREST >> At roughly 2:45 a.m. on July 10 police carried out a site visitors cease on the operator of a silver Toyota for committing a automobile code violation on the Newtown Bypass within the space of Woodbourne Street. Upon talking with the operator, the officer detected the sturdy odor of an alcoholic beverage. The operator was unable to satisfactorily carry out discipline sobriety checks and was positioned underneath arrest for suspicion of driving underneath the affect. Fees are pending blood proof outcomes.
CONTERFEIT CURRENCY >> At roughly 8 p.m. on July 11 police have been notified of a fraud involving counterfeit foreign money at Ceremony Help. The investigation is ongoing presently.
SCAM >> A Newtown Township resident of their early sixties responded to headquarters at 9 a.m. on July 13 to report a rip-off. The resident defined that she was purchasing on-line when a message appeared on her laptop display screen. The message acknowledged she had made unlawful purchases and offered a cellphone quantity for her to dispute the purchases. The resident known as the quantity and spoke to a scammer who claimed that the resident was hacked and that crimes have been dedicated in her identify. The scammer instructed the resident to buy reward playing cards to assist type all of it out and to maintain her from getting arrested. The resident bought 4 Goal reward playing cards for $500 every. Two of the reward playing cards malfunctioned after her bank card was declined, and the entire financial loss was finally $1,000. As well as, the scammer instructed the resident to withdraw a $6,000 money advance from her checking account and to open a BITCOIN account to switch the cash. The resident adopted these directions as effectively, however the transaction was flagged and held by the financial institution. At this level, the resident realized she was scammed.
TRUCK ENFORCEMENT DETAIL >> The Newtown-Makefield Truck Enforcement Unit carried out a industrial automobile security element on River Street in Higher Makefield Township on July 14. The unit is made up of officers from this division, the Newtown Borough Police Division, and the Higher Makefield Township Police Division. In the course of the element, seven vans have been stopped and inspected. One quotation and one warning have been issued for violations that have been discovered.
THEFT >> At 5:30 p.m. on July 15 police have been contacted with reference to a catalytic converter theft that occurred in Newtown Township. The investigation is ongoing.
