Greater Newark's Hometown Newspaper Since 1910 •••• 96th Year, Issue Eight ©2005 March 18,2005 Newark, Del. • 50¢ Up FRONT Police America's best make By JIM STREIT NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER arrests E funeral Monday of Connections with spree TINewark native Stephen McGowan brought of home invasions, home the reality of the Iraqi As 2-YEARANNIVERSARY OF burglaries unclear war. THE START OF THE lRAQL Any solider who makes By KAYTIE DOWLING the ultimate sacrifice in ser­ WARAPPROACHES. NEWARK vice to our country should NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER earn the respect of all CONTlNUES TO SEND ITS Americans. By all accounts from those YOUNG INTO HARM'S WAY. VEN though a long string of home who knew him, Einvasions seems to have reached McGowan was its end, city officials are still work­ an exceptional ing to discover who was behind the bur­ soldier, a devot­ glaries and home invasions that terror­ ed friend and STORY By KAYII E DOWLING ized Newark neighborhoods for months. The latest step in that process is family member, NEWARK POST STAff WRITE R and a caring the City of Newark's announcement of person. While a $5,000 reward for information that fighting a war in would lead to an arrest. That money is in Iraq, he made it addition to a $1,000 reward offered by his personal mis- Streit the Crime Stoppers. sion to brighten N March 19,2003, American lives have been "We're hoping this is going to gen­ the lives of Iraqi children by OPresident George lost on Iraqi and Afghani erate some leads for us," said Capt. W. Bush formally soil. Two democratic elec­ giving them Beanie Babies. See ARRESTS, 26 ~ This week as we approach declared war against Iraq. tions have taken place the two-year anniversary of "My fellow citizens, in nations that had never Operation Enduring Freedom, at this hour American and known such a freedom. news editor Kay tie Dowling coalition forces are in the But behind all of monu­ has prepared a thoughtful early stages of military mental events that will What is piece on Newarkers affected operations to disarm Iraq, one day become the pages by the Iraq and Afghanistan to free its people and of history books, there wars. defend the world from .' are American and inter­ grave danger," he told the national soldiers fighting the answer? Several times in my career, I have drawn the short American public. a war. Their tales won't straw and been sent to inter­ And with those words, make it to the textbooks, view families of servicemen this became a nation at but they are the ones After another fatality and women killed in the line war. worth remembering. Here, on CSX tracks, officials of duty. Also, I've covered It has been two years we honor those brave funerals of police officers since that declaration. men and women with searching for way to who kissed their wife and During that time, dra­ snapshots into the lives of increase safety, education kids one morning never to matic changes have come return. to pass. More than 1,660 . By KAYTIE DOWLING While such tragic stories in newspapers can be moving NEWARK POST STAFF WRITER and powerful (and as jour­ nalists that is what we strive ER a second fatality on for in our writings), I have Mthe CSX tracks in the past six onths, members of city coun­ See UP FRONT, 7 ~ cil, the Newark Police Department, the University of Delaware and CSX are collaborating on a way to increase safety along the rail. The first step in that process hap­ pened this week as Newark police offi­ cers arrested four individuals in the past See TRAINS, 19 7 99462 ,Q0002 3 IN SPORTS: Caravel's Bucaneers fall in state title game, page 16. • UD Blue Hens women make WNIT, page 16. ,.' " <, u / " PAGE 2 • NEWARK POST • MARCH 18, 2005 737 -0724 • Fax 737 -9019 NEWARK POST .:. 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Streit, Jr. is the publisher of the Newark Post He sets policies and surveillance along the tracks manages all departments in the Newark that run parallel to Main Street, office. Call him at 737·0724. Cleveland Avenue and Elkton Kaytie Dowling is the news editor. Road. She leads the day-to-day operation of the Recently four individuals were newsroom. Call her at 737-0724. issued criminal summons for tres­ No one was injured when a tractor-trailer plowed into a toll booth last week at the Newark toll plaza. The Marty Valanla prepares the sports passing when observed by police to pages of this newspaper. The sports be walking along the tracks. All were driver, who police said fell asleep, was charged with inaHentive driving. editor is seldom In the office, however, taking shortcuts to residences north he checks in frequently. Leave meso of the tracks along East Cleveland sages for Marty at 1-800·220·3311. Avenue, according to police reports. On Friday, March 11, at 11 p.m., Truck crashes into Newark toll plaza Robin Broomall is a staff a special agent of CSX transporta­ reporter and specializes in education As the truck neared the EZ-Pass lanes, police said that coverage. Reach her at 737-0724. tion observed three males on the HE Delaware State Police is investigating a railroad tracks, attempting to cross T tractor-trailer crash that occurred early morn­ Wallace fell asleep. Phil Toman has been the paper's at a non-crossing, directly behind the ing on Thursday, March 10, on southbound The truck struck the concrete barrier leading into the arts editor since 1969. Well-known 100 block of East Cleveland Avenue. lanes and then struck an unoccupied tollbooth. in the arts community, he writes his 1-95 at the Delaware Turnpike Toll Plaza in Newark Newark Police were called and just north of the Maryland line. Wallace was transported to Christiana Hospital, where column from his Newark home. Leave issued criminal summons to Robert he was treated for minor injuries, police said. messages for him at 737·0724. Police said that a 2005 Freightliner tractor and trailer, The tractor and trailer, which is owned by Ryder, was Vohden, 20, Vincent Lee, 21, and operated by Mark Wallace, 38, of Pinewood, S. c., was Other contributing writers include Michael Schade, 20, all of Basking hauling frozen fish and was en route to Baltimore, Md. traveling southbound on 1-95 approaching the toll plaza Wallace was issued a traffic ticket for inattentive driv­ Alfred Gruber, Tracy Downs, Elbert Ridge, N. J., for violation of Title 24, at about 4: 10 a.m. Chance, Marvin Hummel and Mark Sisko section 3Al, trespassing on railroad ing. Leave messages for them at 737·0724. property. On Monday, March 7, at 4 p.m., David Burr i~ the office manager-edi­ torial assistant. Reach him at 737·0724. Craig Shuman,19, of Wilmington, dows at the Platinum Salon; mined amount of cash, police said. was arrested for a similar trespassing Unit block of Braemer Drive, Blazing tree Ed Hoffman is the Newark Posts in the 300 block of East Main Street. Abbotsford, on Sunday, March 13, On Sunday, March 13, at 6:28 advertising director and manages the All were given arraignment dates at11:41 a.m., eggs were thrown at Shoplifting arrest p.m., Newark Police and Aetna Fire local sales team. He can be reached at and released, police said. a car and house, causing $250 in Newark Police were called to Company were called to the unit 1·800-220-3311. damages; Pathmark in the College Square block of Aylesboro Road, Marrows Jim GaloH is the advertising sales Unit block of East Cleveland Shopping Center on Sunday, March Court Apartments, where a pine tree manager. He handles accounts in the House ransacked Avenue, on Sunday, March 13, at 13, at 6:44 p.m., when a customer was on fire. When the fire was extin­ New castle area and is an automotive Unknown suspects targeted anoth­ 2:30 a.m., a window of a residence had attempted to leave the store with­ guished, a lawn chair and cinderblock account specialist. Call him at 1-800- er residence in the City of Newark, was shattered by an unknown means, out paying for bags of shrimp hidden were found under the tree. 220-3311. breaking in and removing valuable causing $25 in damages; under his jacket, they said. Police said apparently a mini­ Betty Jo Trexler seliS real estate items. 157 E. Main St., on Saturday, Scott Parkins, 23, of Newark, was campsite had been built under the advertiSing.