Someone get this guy an application already!

Kevlin Adams, a Southwest Philly guy who police say has been arrested five times for posing as a cop, was caught in the act again on Tuesday.

A corporal found Adams ambling around the 18th District's headquarters, at 55th and Pine streets, wearing a gunbelt and handcuffs on his waist, while his rental car was parked in the district captain's spot at about 1 a.m.

The corporal followed Adams, 23, as he made his way to the women's locker room in the basement of the headquarters and confronted him, said police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore. "She asked him some questions, and he begins to falter," Vanore said.

Adams, of 53rd Street near Woodland Avenue, copped to his phony act, and led police to his silver SUV, where he had stashed a hand held radio, police uniform pants, incident reports, handcuff keys and a security badge, Vanore said. He was charged with a variety of offenses, including burglary, theft, criminal mischief and impersonating an officer.

Police released surveillance footage earlier today of a man who indecently assaulted an 18-year-old woman on the Broad Street subway line on Monday.

The attacker sat next to the woman and began talking to her when the southbound subway car approached the Hunting Park stop, police said. When the woman ignored his advances, he assaulted her. The creep and his victim both got off of the subway at Snyder Avenue.

Police described him as a 5-feet-7, bearded black man who was in his late twenties or early thirties. He wore a green and blue striped shirt, blue jeans and a locket that contained a pictured of the attacker and a young boy. Tipsters can contact police at 215-685-3261.

Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey hosted an information session at the Police Academy earlier tonight for about 150 cops who stand to be laid off if the city is forced to implement its dreaded "Plan C" budget.

Ramsey explained how the unemployment process would work and repeatedly stressed that neither he nor the rest of the Police Department would forgot those laid off, said Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross, who was at the meeting. More than 700 police officers would lose their jobs under "Plan C."

Additional sessions will be held at 11 a.m. and 11 p.m. tomorrow at the academy. Ramsey told the cops at tonight's meeting that fundraisers would be held for cops who would face "dire situations" if they lost their jobs, Ross said. Police union leaders told those in attendance that the potential layoffs are the fault of state legislators who have held up the city's budget plans, he said.

Ramsey told the cops to have their loved ones to phone elected leaders about the fiasco. "He had a simple message," Ross said. "He said, 'Tell them to pass the damn bill.'"

Hero cop Richard Decoatsworth shot and wounded a motorcyclist last night after a bizarre chase in Kensington, a police source said.

Chief Inspector Scott Small said the incident began about 8:40 p.m., when two cops spotted a man with a gun riding on a motorcycle near A Street and Indiana Avenue.

Decoatsworth and his partner on the Highway Patrol gave chase and watched the rider toss his gun near Mascher and Dauphin streets, Small said.

The rider then pulled over on Hagert Street near Amber, but kept the motorcycle running. The Highway Patrol cops got out of their cruiser, “and then something pretty bizarre happened,” Small said.

A second man who was standing on Hagert Street suddenly jumped on the motorcycle and tried to mow down the cops, Small said. Decoatsworth opened fire and wounded the “new” driver, identified by relatives as Jay James, 18, in the thigh.

Police found James shortly after in the emergency room at Hahnemann University Hospital, Small said.

Investigators believe that James knew the original driver of the motorcycle. He was arrested at his home on Palethorp Street near Diamond.

“They just ran his plates and went to the house where the motorcycle was registered,” Small said.
Neither Decoatsworth nor his partner, whose name was not released, was injured.

Decoatsworth, 23, was shot in the face by a shotgun-toting thug in Southwest Philadelphia two years ago. He recovered and rejoined the force.

In February, his bravery was rewarded with a seat next to first lady Michelle Obama during a presidential speech in Washington.

Outside Hahnemann last night, crime scene tape surrounded James’ mother’s blood-splattered car. She had driven her son to the hospital, Small said.

“I’m scared, I want answers. I want to know what’s going on and if my nephew is OK,” said James’ aunt, MaryAnn Attica.

“The cops are trying to say that he tried to run them over but it wasn’t like that,” added Jesenia Benabe, James’ girlfriend.
 

A city employee has been arrested on charges of stealing $1,600 worth of gas through an illegal hookup in his Northeast Philly home, city officials said.
Reginald Selby, who worked for the Fleet Management Department, tampered with his gas meter, using an iron-pipe bypass after PGW cut off his gas service in 2007 because of unpaid bills, officials said.
On at least 10 occasions, Selby, a city employee since 2004, used the bypass to funnel gas back into his Korman Suites apartment on Welsh Road near Dewees Street, authorities said. Fire Department officials said the hookup could have caused an explosion. He surrendered to police on Friday.
 

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Murder-suicide proved to be the causes of death for a Northeast Philadelphia couple whose bodies were found in a gruesome house of horrors on Saturday, police said.
Investigators had found “plenty of blood” in nearly every room of Robert and Sophia DiAndrea’s split-level house on Greycourt Road, said Homicide Sgt. Frank Hayes.
The husband and wife both bore numerous stab wounds, which led detectives to initially wonder if the couple had savagely battled to the death.
Further investigation led police to conclude that Robert, a 40-year-old Water Department supervisor, had stabbed his wife in the chest numerous times, then turned the knife on himself, Hayes said.
“She had quite a few defensive wounds on her,” he said. “[Robert] slashed both of his arms multiple times.”
Sophia, 39, a fifth-grade teacher at Anne Frank Elementary School, was found in a rear bedroom.
Police found Robert in a front bedroom. He didn’t leave a suicide note, but detectives believe that the episode was sparked by a “domestic issue,” Hayes said.
He declined to elaborate because the couple has three surviving children, two of whom — Joseph, 13, and Anthony, 10 — alerted neighbors when they found blood on the back door of their house on Saturday.
Sources previously said that the couple had a history of domestic problems and had been seeking a divorce.

Four people were wounded in two drive-by shootings in Southwest Philadelphia tonight. About 10:30 p.m., police were called to Bonaffon Street near Woodland Avenue, where they found three victims: a pregnant woman wounded in the leg; a man shot in the chest, and another man with a graze wound to the arm, said Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives.
Within minutes, shots rang out on nearby 67th Street, where another man was shot in the ear, Walker said. It was unclear if the incidents were related. Three victims were taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, while the fourth was taken to CHOP.

Walker said witnesses reported seeing a black car with tinted windows leaving the scene of the 67th Street shooting, while a silver town car was seen speeding from the Bonaffon Street crime scene.

A band of creeps on dirt bikes and ATVs chased and ultimately critically injured a 29-year-old man in Kensington earlier tonight, police said.
The victim, whose name was not released, was in his car on Hurley Street near Ontario about 7:30 p.m. when he encountered the young men, who were blocking the road.
When he yelled at them to move, the riders — who ranged in number from six to 15, according to witnesses — began chasing the motorist, said Lt. Darien Blackmon of East Detectives.
“They started throwing things at his car. He crashed into several parked cars, then took off running. That’s when they ran him over,” Blackmon said.
The fiends, who were riding an array of ATVs, dirt bikes and four-wheelers, fled on nearby Ontario Street.
Blackmon said the victim was admitted to Temple University Hospital in critical condition with head trauma, but was expected to survive.
Investigators are hoping area surveillance cameras might have filmed the bikers.
Tipsters can contact detectives at 215-686-3243.

John Bolaris thinks of himself as being a pretty down-to-earth, approachable guy.
You spot him in a bar or restaurant, and want to amble over to ask about the weather, maybe take a picture? Go ahead, he’s game.
But the Fox 29 chief meteorologist isn’t too pleased about an encounter he had last week with a boorish brute who left him bruised and bloodied in Avalon, N.J.
Bolaris, 52, said he headed to his favorite Shore town in the wee hours on Sept. 4, not long after he finished his shift at Fox.
He walked into the Circle Tavern at the Princeton, on Dune Drive near 21st Street, at 1:30 a.m.
“I was supposed to meet some buddies of mine, but they weren’t there. I was in there for about 10 minutes, watching highlights of the Boise [State football] college game,” Bolaris said.
He left the pub when his pals sent him a text-message, inviting him to their house for a few beers.
Outside, a girl approached and — you guessed it — asked about the weather.
“I told it her, ‘It’ll be nice.’ Then this guy comes over and starts jumping around me in circles, kinda acting strange.
“I looked at him and said, ‘You OK, buddy?’ He kept moving in circles, then he yells ... and tackles me into the street.”
During the ensuing tumble, the weatherman said, his head smacked against a curb, and his finger was cut to the bone.
“There was blood everywhere. The guy took off down an alley,” he said, still sounding shocked by the whole thing.
An Avalon police sergeant yesterday confirmed that an ambulance was called to the scene that morning to treat Bolaris for a hand injury.
The weatherman, who thinks he might have suffered a concussion during the takedown, wants justice.
He recalled the incident yesterday morning on the “Preston and Steve Show” on 93.3 WMMR-FM, and later to the Daily News, hoping that someone will help police catch the lunkhead.
“I’m really aggravated that someone would do that and try to get away with it. My head could’ve cracked open,” he said.
“I want to press charges. He needs to sit in a jail cell for a couple of days.”
Bolaris described the attacker as a twentysomething white man, about 5-feet-8, 165 pounds, with a blondish buzz-cut.
Tipsters can contact Avalon police at 609-967-3411.