Walgreen Pharmacy of Coatesville construction

The construction of the Walgreen Pharmacy at 8th Avenue and Lincoln Highway moving along nicely.

There is a “bomb threat” at the local Magisterial Courthouse on Lincoln Highway in Coatesville.

The streets are blocked off and the Maranatha Christian Academy day care center across the street has been evacuated. 

Criminal Records of those in shooting and murder in Coatesville on Friday, April 15, 2011

See:

Coatesville homicide shooter sought

Daily Local News Published: Saturday, April 16, 2011

And:

Fatal Shooting in Coatesville (video)

Daily Local News Published:  April 15, 2011

Alleged Shooter:

 Joel Calheim Kennedy 20

 DOB-12/01/1990

DOCKET 

 

Judge Assigned: Magisterial District Judge Gregory V. Issue Date: 04/16/2011 

# Charge  Grade  Description  Offense Dt.  Disposition

1 18 § 2501 §§ A F1 Criminal Homicide 04/15/2011

2 18 § 2502 §§ A Murder Of The First Degree 04/15/2011

3 18 § 2502 §§ C Murder Of The Third Degree 04/15/2011

4 18 § 2702 §§ A1 F1 Aggravated Assault 04/15/2011

5 18 § 2702 §§ A4 F2 Aggravated Assault 04/15/2011

6 18 § 2702 §§ A4 F2 Aggravated Assault 04/15/2011

7 18 § 2702 §§ A1 F1 Aggravated Assault 04/15/2011

8 18 § 2702 §§ A1 F1 Aggravated Assault 04/15/2011

9 18 § 907 §§ A M1 Poss Instrument Of Crime W/Int 04/15/2011

10 18 § 907 §§ B M1 Possession Of Weapon 04/15/2011

11 18 § 2705 M2 Recklessly Endangering Another Person 04/15/2011

12 18 § 2705 M2 Recklessly Endangering Another Person 04/15/2011

13 18 § 2705 M2 Recklessly Endangering Another Person 04/15/2011

14 18 § 2705 M2 Recklessly Endangering Another Person 04/15/2011

15 18 § 2705 M2 Recklessly Endangering Another Person 04/15/2011

16 18 § 2705 M2 Recklessly Endangering Another Person 04/15/2011

http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/MDJReport.aspx?district=MDJ-15-1-03&docketNumber=MJ-15103-CR-0000129-2011

DOCKET 

Judge Assigned: Magisterial District Judge Jeffrey J. Issue Date: 05/05/2010

# Charge  Grade  Description  Offense Dt.  Disposition

1 35 § 780-113 §§ A16 Int Poss Contr Subst By Per Not Reg 05/05/2010 Withdrawn

2 18 § 5126 §§ A Flight To Avoid Appreh/Trial/Punish 05/05/2010 Withdrawn

3 18 § 5104 M2 Resist Arrest/Other Law Enforce 05/05/2010 Withdrawn

4 18 § 5503 §§ A3 S Disorder Conduct Obscene Lang/Gest 05/05/2010 Withdrawn

5 18 § 5503 §§ A4 S Disorder Conduct Hazardous/Physi Off 05/05/2010 Move to Non-Traffic

http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/MDJReport.aspx?district=MDJ-15-4-02&docketNumber=MJ-15402-CR-0000093-2010

 DOCKET

Judge Assigned: Magisterial District Judge Jeffrey J. Issue Date: 05/05/2010

# Charge  Grade  Description  Offense Dt.  Disposition

1 Disorder Conduct Hazardous/Physi Off Guilty Plea

http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/MDJReport.aspx?district=MDJ-15-4-02&docketNumber=MJ-15402-NT-0000575-2010

Shooting victim 

Kadeem Dijon Morales 18

 DOB 07/14/1992

DOCKET 

 Judge Assigned: Magisterial District Judge Gregory V. Issue Date: 08/17/2010

# Charge  Grade  Description  Offense Dt.  Disposition

1 LO § 161 §§ 4a S Loud Music 08/13/2010 Guilty Plea

http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/MDJReport.aspx?district=MDJ-15-1-03&docketNumber=MJ-15103-NT-0001113-2010

DOCKET 

Judge Assigned: Magisterial District Judge Michael J. Cabry III Issue Date: 01/04/2010

# Charge  Grade  Description  Offense Dt.  Disposition

1 75 § 1503 §§ C1 S Person Ineligible For Licensing-Junior Lic 01/02/2010 Guilty Plea

http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/MDJReport.aspx?district=MDJ-15-3-06&docketNumber=MJ-15306-TR-0000001-2010

 

 Shooting victim

Jerisha Short-Pernsley

 NO CRIMINAL RECORD

The murder victim was James Morton Bookman, 18

DOB-07/07/1992

DOCKET

Judge Assigned: Magisterial District Judge Grover E. Koon Issue Date: 11/09/2010

# Charge  Grade  Description  Offense Dt.  Disposition

1 18 § 5104 M2 Resist Arrest/Other Law Enforce 11/05/2010 Withdrawn

http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/MDJReport.aspx?district=MDJ-15-1-05&docketNumber=MJ-15105-CR-0000297-2010

DOCKET

Judge Assigned: Magisterial District Judge Nancy A. Gill Issue Date: 07/01/2004

# Charge  Grade  Description  Offense Dt.  Disposition

1 18 § 3929 §§ A1 S Retail Theft-Take Mdse 06/29/2004 Guilty Plea

http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/MDJReport.aspx?district=MDJ-15-3-07&docketNumber=MJ-15307-NT-0000548-2004

DOCKET

Judge Assigned: Magisterial District Judge Grover E. Koon Issue Date: 06/25/2004

# Charge  Grade  Description  Offense Dt.  Disposition

1 LO § VII §§ 1 S Curfew 05/22/2004 Not Guilty

http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/MDJReport.aspx?district=MDJ-15-1-05&docketNumber=MJ-15105-NT-0000750-2004

About Coatesville’s version of Allentown’s SWEEP (Solid Waste Education and Enforcement Program).

Because something works in Allentown doesn't mean it will work in Chester County. Allentown is a Democratic Party city. But even Republican judges in Lehigh County look down on Chester County Republicans.
Let’s put this way. The Chester County Republican Committee reveres a former County Commissioner and Chester County Republican Party Chairman named Theodore Rubino. “Teddy” as he was affectionately called was CCRC Chair in the 1970s and Chester County Commissioner at the same time. He was a trash hauler from Malvern, PA. “Teddy” had an empty top drawer in his desk at the Courthouse. If you wanted something done, he would walk out of the office and the drawer would magically be filled with money that “Teddy” would put into his pockets when he came back.
Rubino died just before he was to enter Federal prison. This is a guy the CCRC holds dear as a best ever Republican Party Chairman. I call him Chester County’s version of Tony Soprano. Stuff like this happens when an extremely wealthy county stays in the hands of one political party for over 150 years.
I think Chester County basically can gear up a “wild west” court system when they so desire and get away with it. Amazing and unusual stuff happens here in Chester County Courts that makes Republicans outside of Chester County say. “What’s wrong with them down there?”
It’s not really a partisan political thing and it could happen in any country on earth. It’s what happens when all the money and all the power is handed down within the same closed group of people for 150 years.
What I am getting at is that I think a slumlord who knows which buttons to push can basically ignore any regulations that Coatesville makes.
But there are plenty of Republicans who didn't  look to “Teddy” Rubino with undying reverence even when Rubino was CCRC Chair.  There is a change in the winds of politics in Chester County and there are places where the City of Coatesville can get help.
Our best chance at cleaning up the city with enforcement of regulations is the Housing Authority of Chester County enforcing Section 8 HUD regulations and withholding rent from slumlords until the property is repaired. And more money for enforcement may be on the way as per the Southeastern Pennsylvania First Suburbs Project public meeting on regional opportunity in Audubon last Thursday.
But rising property values in Coatesville will make the slumlord’s, buy at Sherriff Sales, spend almost nothing on the property, collect rent for about a year, ignore all summons, don’t actually pay for the property and after about a year of ignoring summons let the County take the property back; business model unworkable. If the property values increase like I think they could the slumlords will need to go outside of Coatesville for a community to victimize with their business model.

Another separate housing problem in Chester County was until very recently among the new Spanish speaking immigrants didn’t know how to complain or who to complain to if their apartment had a leaking roof, no heat, no water and no electricity. Organizations have grown here in Chester County to help the Spanish speaking community.
The “Famous Building” in Coatesville had Spanish speaking renters only.  The “Famous Building” once had a roof supported entirely by the brick façade instead of the steel frame. The bricks were connected to the steel frame by steel ties. Over the years those steel ties rusted away and the façade bowed out three feet from the frame at the center front of the building. The roof was in danger of collapse. If it did collapse it would have come into the top floor and the entire 6 story brick façade would have fallen to the street below.  

 The future is more promising for Coatesville than at any other time. A big part of that promising future is the efforts of ordinary people. I just don’t think that anything that would rely on our court system is going to do much for Coatesville at this time. Publicizing the names of our big violators slumlords such as Amrit Lal, David Smith and Ernie Campos as I do might help but don’t look to what I believe is an astoundingly corrupt court system for help. 

Paul Janssen’s first statement to the Coatesville City Council was “We have to make the streets safe”. Eleven years later that’s still a distant goal: which reminds me; I need to get a sympathy card.   

There was an alleged shooting at Ash Park today at about 2:15 PM.

Allegedly the Coatesville PD are pursuing teenagers. 

Coatesville and Phoenixville have different parking problems

Coatesville has an enormous amount of unused metered street parking on Lincoln Highway in the three blocks east of the downtown area in Coatesville. It’s an easy one to five minute walk to the downtown area.

It’s personally frustrating to hear arguments over zoned parking for businesses because I know the zoning parking regulation Coatesville uses is based on zoning that is designed for new suburban land accessible only by motor vehicle.

Chetty’s Pennock Place building is not at Third Avenue and Lincoln Highway because of the cycle of events after Andrew Lehr’s insistence at a Coatesville City Council meeting on March 27, 2006 that the suburban parking zoning be followed exactly before Council would approve it. Chetty did not get the “Conditional Final Approval” that Pulver’s Marriott Courtyard Hotel recently did get. The clock on Chetty’s development plan ran out and the months long delay to get back to final approval was enough for Chetty to lose the deposits on condos, his investors and eventually the entire project. That’s even though the target occupants of “Pennock Place” would have no more than one car and would use the new train station.

If you want to see a perfect example of what Coatesville would look like if all of Coatesville’s downtown business area had the kind of zoning parking regulations Coatesville uses for new commercial zoning drive on down to “Main Street at Exton”.  

Coatesville’s actual parking problem was the abuse of hourly parking by certain “connected” people who had a sort of immunity from tickets. That is, the tickets went away in Magisterial Court frustrating the officers who ticketed the vehicles. That problem has been mostly cleared up.

Phoenixville has lots of people who want to be in downtown Phoenixville. It’s a different kind of parking problem that Coatesville desperately needs:

DAILY LOCAL NEWS

Talk continues on parking issues in Phoenixville

Published: Thursday, April 14, 2011

For basic information on land development, read “Saving Pennsylvania; Save our Land, Save our Towns” or “Save our Land, Save our Towns” it’s the same book with slightly different titles. It’s in our libraries. If you still have a VCR there is a videotape of the original PBS TV show in our libraries also.

 I’m leaving it to the USDoJ to sort out why Lehr didn’t go for conditional and final approval and if it had something to do with the “alleged visit to Chetty Headquarters in December of 2005”.

Like Kirby Hudson said it’s possible that Coatesville’s $1.5 M train station improvement grant might not there.

Acting Coatesville City Manager Kirby Hudson speaking at the April 11, 2011 Coatesville City Council Meeting, he was answering a question about grants:

“Now one of the things that has not been touched yet was going back to when Congressman Gerlach came and he got, it was a grant. Let me take that back. It was an earmark that was then turned into a grant for the renovation of the train station. That has not been touched yet because the project hasn’t gone.” 

And 2 ½ minutes later:

“Right now what we’re working on right now with the State, hopefully the money will be there; because there are all sorts of cuts going on now. Would be the redevelopment of the Fleetwood Street area and train station.”

I'm guessing that the cash for the train station grant came from rail transportation so:

This is the business side of the $38 Billion Democratic cave in to Republican tantrums, I mean demands:

FY 2011 CONTINUING RESOULTION REDUCTIONS (in millions of dollars)

Here are the rail transit cuts from that document above in Millions:

Railroad Safety Technology Compared to FY10 Enacted -$50 Compared to FY11 Request $0

Rail Line Relocation and Improvement Program Compared to FY10 Enacted-$24 Compared to FY11 Request $10

Amtrak - Capital and Debt Service Grants Compared to FY10 Enacted-$78 -Compared to FY11 Request $128

High Speed Rail Compared to FY10 Enacted-$2,900 Compared to FY11 Request -$1,400

We just have to wait and see if the money is there or if the tea partiers sunk our train station.

To garble a quote from “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” Republicans don’t need no stinking public transit. They use personal jets and helicopters.