Three hours ago, the Chester County District Attorney released the following on it’s social media feeds:
NEWS RELEASE: LOCAL POLICE OFFICER ARRESTED
The Chester County District Attorney’s Office announces the arrest of David Maurer, 55, for taking controlled substances for personal use from a medication collection box on November 20, 2024 (the Defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty). Maurer was charged with Possession of Controlled Substances and Theft by Unlawful Taking. Maurer, who was employed as a Detective Sergeant for the West Goshen Township Police Department, was arrested today and arraigned by Magisterial District Judge Martin Goch. Maurer was released on his own recognizance.
On November 20, 2024, Maurer was working as a law enforcement officer and tasked with emptying medication collection boxes located in the West Goshen Township Police Department and Chester County Hospital. The medication collection boxes are a part of a county program designed for the community to safely discard unwanted medication. After Maurer emptied the drop boxes, he removed several pill bottles containing controlled substances and retained them in his personal possession instead of delivering them to the collection site for safe disposal.
If you have any information about this case, please contact the Chester County Detectives at 610-344-6866.
West Goshen Police Department released the following statement two hours ago:
West Goshen Police department acknowledges the incident and arrest and informs everyone that Sergeant David Maurer was placed on administrative leave pending an investigation. There is no indication if this is paid or unpaid leave.
Look, this arrest is something I find profoundly disturbing and really sad. I guess I am just sort of incredulous that this happened. Law enforcement is human, and I am reminding even myself of that right now. Who knows why this happened. He is indeed innocent until proven guilty. Why I am having a hard time reconciling this in my head is because I did some research on some high profile cases he has bought home.
CHESTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) — A Pennsylvania police officer was arrested Thursday after officials say he stole drugs from a medication collection box while he was on duty.
The Chester County District Attorney’s Office said in a news release on Thursday that David Maurer, 55, stole the drugs while he was emptying the boxes on Wednesday at a police department and hospital.
Maurer kept pill bottles that had controlled substances inside them after he emptied the boxes out instead of taking them to the collection site for disposal, the DA’s office says.
Suicide rates for those in blue is about 184 per year as if 2024. Given the career of this man, which has been really kind of good, is there more to this story and will he be offered support? Seriously, if you search his name on the Internet, he is a closer. If you were going to profile him based on his case work, this doesn’t compute. If you ask other PD who have come in contact with him over the years, they will tell you he is good police. I do not know, nor have I ever met this man. But if you look at his body of work, my opinion is it seems out of character.
That’s all I have got. Is West Goshen under a curse? How will those supervisors handle this?
I have given up counting the number of blog posts just about the Joseph Price house in Exton. It’s the house at the corner of S. Whitford Rd. and Clover Hill Road. It’s a gorgeous house.
For years many of us have been concerned because there’s nobody living there and we feel that people have been getting in. There’s a new video from Abandoned Steve and I am very grateful to whoever this videographer is because it shows West Whiteland Township the exact state of this historic asset, and this is a federally listed historic property.
I actually know people who have tried to make a deal to buy this house. I also have been told that people on the West Whiteland Historic Commission have been trying to find a preservation buyer haven’t they? But things don’t seem to be as simple as that do they?
Can we just ask the question why is it that the two owners of this property who have never done anything with the house? It seem to be unable to let it go and are just letting it rot? Why why why why?
Anyway, I hope this video will spur people into convincing these owners to sell to a preservation buyer, etc. and I think West Whiteland needs to make sure this property is properly secured.
I’m having a big I told you so moment now. When I had written about this and said that I had a couple of inside photos that somebody had sent me from like a year or two ago, people argued up down and sideways that the house was occupied.
North Wayne Avenue at the Wayne Train Station. A GIANT stuck looks like an 18 wheeler at dinner time. Nice. Can the driver not read? Does he or she not know the height of what they are driving?
Talk about duh.
Who is paying for what? It’s ridiculous and maybe if Commissioner Moira my brother is an actor Mulroney and perpetually cranky and pale Commissioner Jack Larkin can stop hollering at Jake Abel long enough they can look into this? (Yeah commissioners your off camera and on camera antics are noted by quite a few so you can’t blame me can you?)
Also about The Willows. Is it really financially stable? IMHO, I don’t think so. And what exactly does Will Nord do to earn his salary which at the recent Radnor meeting is supposedly $91K+? He’s a pleasant fellow, but still? And they want to hire an events manager? Why doesn’t the caterer have an onsite events manager? And about that caterer? Peachtree? Are they REALLY the best that the Willows can do? Meh. A few years ago I won pop up dinner tickets with them I think somewhere in Radnor, Pomme maybe? Yeah well, still waiting for them to honor that from 2020 and we will leave it at that. I don’t need a free meal, but I did win it in a contest. So now if they offered it? Yeah no thanks, and that made me decide they are a nope on the caterer scale of life.
And what about the remaining asbestos? That remediation is specific and expensive, correct?
The woman discussing the finances was arch and rather defensive so that means kids, that it’s all really not so hot is it?
And the neighbors sound issues are very real and if Radnor and the Willows Park Preserve think the neighbors are going to go away they will not. Look at the issues in the past until it was worked out at Appleford in Lower Merion. Will Nord thinks everyone is having pink fluffy clouds Kumbaya conversations? The Inveraray neighbors are pissed. I wouldn’t mess with that HOA, would you?
And if Peachtree is selling a house party vibe, they are not correctly marketing the property and Peachtree has full exclusive control as a caterer, so sorry not sorry they do indeed have responsibility towards dealing with any issue, including noise, don’t you think? Are they spread too thin with locations at the Willows, Pomme, Portico at Awbry, and Parque at ridley Creek State Park and again I ask if they are making the dough ray me as an exclusive caterer at FOUR venues why can’t THEY pay for the events planner needed? Usually an events planner is hired by the site if there is NO as in ZERO exclusive caterer.
I think the Willows Park Preserve is a hot mess and sinking further. And yeah, asbestos remediation? Check back through paperwork Radnor Township and I think you will find it is definitely not al complete. And what about the cottage? All of the money wasted on that and NO ONE EVER TALKS ABOUT IT AND WHY?
And let’s talk some more how you wanted to use eminent domain against a church?
Damn Radnor Township, you can’t get out of your own way.
Hi! Friendly neighborhood blogger here. Reporting live from the East Whiteland Supervisors meeting.
Chair of East Whiteland Supervisors Scott Lambert just announced that PA Governor Josh Shapiro has given East Whiteland a grant check ONE MILLION DOLLARS to add to the Chester County grant already announced for $800,000.
This means a hefty chunk of change going towards the purchase of the Schiffer Farm property along with the open space referendum tax funds. This is AMAZING.
Congratulations East Whiteland!
And East Whiteland? Please buy yourself some new microphones for the podium in the boardroom.
The last time West Vincent Supervisor Sara Shick, Vice chair of the Board of Supervisors was seen on a meeting recording seems to have been September 16, 2024 doesn’t it? Look it is no secret she is not well, and I actually do not wish her ill. I am a breast cancer survivor, and it’s pretty obvious she is dealing with something bad.
But that being said if her health is in decline, and you are among her people, she doesn’t have to literally die with her boots on. Help her find someone to step into her role, leaving her the dignity of dealing with whatever.
I am sure that whatever it is I say here, I will be attacked for writing about this. I am actually not writing with malice, although she has never been my favorite politician. I am writing about this because whatever is going on with her personally should be where her focus is. And she loves where she lives, but she has to know when to leave the party as an elected official, correct? For the good of her community? As in the greater good?
This is just how I feel. It’s is not casting aspersions, it is practical. It’s a three person board and now it seems that Supervisor Bernie Couris has something going on? Look at the October 24, 2024 meeting. He looks quite literally gray and pale, wearing a mask, and if you look at the meeting and about 21 minutes in, he leaves the meeting. That man is also not well.
This leaves ONE Supervisor, the Chair of the Board, Dana Alan. There was no quorum on November 4th, so the meeting was cancelled, correct? The next meeting is November 18th. Will they have a quorum? What if they do not?
Look, this is one of the largest problems I have with these 3 person boards. Life happens and then township business grinds to a halt.
The interim township manager is the one they kind of showed the door and not reappointed around 2016, correct? Then he leaves West Pikeland and wanders on back to West Vincent?
Where is the system of checks and balances here?
As an outsider looking in they need one replacement supervisor if not two. It’s not business as usual and needs to be addressed. If my research is correct, if two supervisors in a second class Pennsylvania municipality become sick and unable to serve, the remaining supervisors would typically fill the vacancies by appointing qualified individuals to serve until the next municipal election, where the positions would be filled by a public vote; if there are not enough remaining supervisors (which is a real worry in West Vincent), the vacancy board (consisting of the remaining supervisors and a registered elector) would appoint replacements, and if that fails, the court of common pleas would ultimately fill the vacancies upon a petition from township electors, right?
So West Vincent, what’s the plan? You actually have to deal with this. Of course you can say how horrible I am and probably will but y’all need to come to grips with what is happening. And that doesn’t mean bringing certain former supervisors back to the board for a second bite at the apple, either.
I close with this is why I like a 5 person board. It just makes more sense.
West Goshen Stupidvisor Ashley Gagme has a syndrome known as Meeting Tourette’s. But it seems like she just does verbal cartwheels in their boardroom. Too often.
Honey, we know you have political aspirations…I mean look 👀 at you never missing a photo op with Josh Shapiro, right? (Although that could also be a thing about older men maybe? ) But you kind of have to curb your enthusiasm at meetings and remember that the boardroom is full of adults, not children to be chided, right? Unless you want to be your own HBO show or something? Think of it as The Office meets Curb Your Enthusiasm….sorry I am getting ahead of myself, but oh the imagination could just run wild with all the other squirrelly behavior in West Goshen, right?
And yes, my dear, I am allowed my opinions. Be the Queen of the Word Salad if you must, just try to rein it in a little ok? I mean girl, come on now, you don’t want to have the reputation of behaving like the Democrat version of Marjorie Taylor Greene, right?
That is just cult-like ugliness above. I can’t get past that. I remember when I was proud to be a Republican. I do. I was even an RNC 2000 Media Relations Volunteer. I lent a U.S. Congressman who was a platform speaker cab fare because no one else recognized him. I met Colin Powell, Arnold Schwarzenegger and his then wife Maria Shriver. I felt like I was part of something that mattered.
These are not my people.
Then slowly it started to change. More and more I split my ticket when voting. The last GOP Congressperson I believed in was Jim Gerlach. Mostly because you knew he actually cared about his constituents, and proved that helping us fight eminent domain in Ardmore. Through him we met other Republican Congressmen like Jim Sensenbrenner and John Boehner. And I actually liked both of them.
But these Republicans? They are part of the political party that no longer exists. They are Trumpublicans, bought and paid for and influenced by a person who has spent his whole life gaming the system.
What has survived and what this political party has morphed into is ugly and violent and full of hate fueled rhetoric that is more cult than political. I just can’t do that.
I saw the changes coming and 2016 was when I said no and walked away. The GOP chose a man who has as his greatest accomplishment turning this country into a version of his ugly soul. That was my moment when I realized I was no longer a Republican as that party wished to define it vis-Ă -vis him as a candidate.
The simple truth is Donald Trump has neverever changed who he truly is. I remember when he was in the Academy Ball Book for the Academy Ball benefitting the Academy of Music. I remember thinking then now decades ago how sleazy he looked, and why didn’t the people posing in the photos with him for this great non-profit see it? I will note some of these people still support him, and I still don’t understand why now any more than I understood why then why they thought he was wonderful.
It’s simple: he’s the ultimate charlatan. He’s the Jim Jones of this era, and much like Jonestown of 1978, Trump’s followers today have drunk the Kool Aid, only as opposed to 1978 it’s not spiked with poison it’s proverbial.
I don’t know why it’s so easy for people to fall in love with him. I think they’re looking for things that are lacking in their own lives if you want to know, my honest opinion. because if you have a rational mind, he doesn’t make sense. And that’s why you are seeing all the Republicans that all these Trumpublicans used to worship being maligned because they have stood up and said enough this isn’t the party of Lincoln. This is NOT our guy and this isn’t a person for this country and it’s time to vote country over party.
And these believers? A lot of them are the ones who make everything more unpleasant even in our every day lives when they try to politicize everything. It’s like he gave the schoolyard bullies we grew up with a voice. They even bully their own co-believers. You can’t be part of the popular lunch tables unless you do exactly as they tell you.
And now there’s all this last minute campaign rhetoric coming right from the proverbial horse’s mouth, like that if Trumpublican men’s wives vote for Kamala Harris, it’s like cheating on their husbands. I mean seriously? What kind of bullshit is that? The ones that are on the fence? No one can see who you are voting for. You can vote however you choose you do not have to tell a soul. It’s your constitutional right, and as I told a Republican I know last week, the thing I wanted them to think about was the fact that they had daughters. And if they wanted their daughters to be absolutely guaranteed to have their rights preserved even to be pro-choice, then Trump wasn’t their guy. I said they weren’t just voting their preference. They were also voting the futures and rights of their children who could not vote.
I have to wonder since Trump wants to take care of all the women whether they want it or not if he had his druthers, would he repeal a woman’s right to vote just like he got rid of a woman’s right to choose?
I don’t expect my words to sway anyone. I am only expressing how I feel which is my right. do I have children of my own? No, I was never able to have them, but I am voting for the future that I want my stepson to have and my niece and my nephew and my friends and other family members kids and their kids after them.
Every day if you turn on the TV or you turn on social media or you pick up a newspaper all you see, are these rallies of ugliness. A chant of fight fight fight. Fists in the air that is reminiscent of Nazi Germany or any communist takeover even if the hand/wrist action is not exactly similar. It’s a feeling.
If you want to have your vote count, you can’t just vote necessarily the way your political party expects you to. You have to look at the bigger picture where it is literally country over any party.
Again, I can’t tell any of you how to vote, only encourage you to understand that we can indeed handle a female President. She represents among other things what I believe our forefathers wanted: the changing face of a country founded by immigrants.
Vote for our forefathers. Vote for the women who came before us. Vote for Abigail Adams. Vote for Dolly Madison. Vote for Sarah Bass Allen. Vote for Carrie Chapman Catt. Vote for Matilda Joslyn Gage. Vote for Susan B. Anthony. Vote for the Mercer girls. Vote for Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Vote for any of the women whom you know or are related to. Vote in memory of those women you knew who are no longer with us.
I hope you choose Kamala Harris, just because it is the right thing to do. The GOP, the party of Lincoln is dead. Voting like mom and dad might of won’t mean anything because the GOP they believed in, again, is dead. If you had asked a much younger me would I vote Democrat let alone become one, I would have simply said “no way”, yet here we are.
Being a true “patriot” doesn’t mean walking lock step for a petty dictator waiting for his next opportunity while waving false flags. Being a real patriot means doing potentially a personally difficult choice, but as an American you know in your core, that you need to vote for a woman who will preserve the US Constitution, not obliterate it for personal gain.
Taken just a little while ago. All for corners of Sugartown & Lancaster in Tredyffrin. They are blocking pedestrians with flags and signs from feeling like they can cross the street safely. That is intimidation. These are not my people and this is the patch of ChesCo GOP chair Raffi Terzian. Is this acceptable to him? Public safely and free flow of people comes first!
Again, your vote is your choice. Just please remember all of those who fought, bled, and died to make this country truly free. Those are the true patriots. They wouldn’t want a man who is a threat to what they accomplished for all of us to get a second bite at the apple.
I am not any more of a biddable Democrat than I was a biddable Republican. I look at the candidates beyond mere political persuasion. That makes me inconvenient to any political party and I don’t really care.
I hope everyone votes as an American on Tuesday. I hope everyone votes for their country over party.
It was pretty cool to see Republican Chair of the Willistown Supervisors Bob Lange and his wife right there in Washington, DC. At the elipse.
I can’t imagine how that felt and wow to speak in front of all those people on a national, well truthfully global stage.
Damn Bob, you sure aren’t doing anything by halves.
Bravo.
Around the 12 minute mark
Farmer Bob goes to Washington.
And hey Republican Committee of Chester County you keep your village idiot collective. The real Republicans are sticking to Country over Party and y’all keep goose stepping, hear?
Last question, who will play the Langes on Saturday Night Live?
Ok people let’s git r’ done! So many people have put themselves on the line for this.
Those bastards in Limerick. I have no pretty words for Limerick Township, Montgomery County, PA.
I got the call this morning and half an hour ago this was posted on Facebook:
190 years of history
7 years of battles
4 hours to be erased
Today, the Hood Mansion was torn down. We were able to rescue the date stone and a few interior pieces – the rest will end up in a landfill.
We were given less than 24 hours notice of the permit being filed – this comes after the property was recently sold yet again to another shell corporation based out of the Bronx.
It will be replaced with a data center warehouse – yet to be officially approved. More on that later.
All of us here at EPPS have worked tirelessly since 2017 to save this incredible piece of American history on a shoestring budget. This is a tragic failure in our country to continue to allow pieces of our shared past to be erased for corporate interests that contribute nothing to our sense of place and community. Preservationists aren’t magicians, and it takes many parties working together to try and save what we can. Unfortunately it’s difficult if not impossible to fight the corporate machine.
We can rest easy knowing we gave it our best shot up until the very end, but as a great friend and mentor of mine once said about the field of preservation:
“You’ll lose more than you save”
Thank you to everyone who has supported us in this fight for many years, and a heartfelt apology to the Hood Family, whose contributions to our society clearly didn’t matter enough to the powers that be.
Please stay tuned to our pages for an additional press release.
So hopefully now the data center and environmental activists wake the hell up about what is happening in Limerick. Thus far they have been strangely silent given the environmental impacts.
Congratulations Limerick Township you feckless bunch of nitwits. You have just taken a step closer to making your area like Louden County, Virginia and all it entails. Hope the realtors who brokered these deals choke on the commissions.
I am really sorry Hood Mansion. We all tried. Please tell your spirits to haunt away.
