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Friday, October 10, 2008

Police get assist from resident

Highway Patrol Officers Joe Moore and Bruce Cleaver were riding through North Philadelphia on Thursday when a red Chevy Impala caught their eye. They flipped their domelights on when the driver failed to use his turn signal and he turned onto North 22nd Street from Berks.


The Chevy came to a stop. The driver did not. Orlander Warren, 28, took off running, and Moore and Cleaver jumped out of their patrol car and gave chase, said Highway Patrol Capt. Michael Cochrane.


It was, in a sense, deja vu all over again. Highway Patrol Officer Pat McDonald ran through the very same motions on Sept. 23, when he pulled a car over near 17th and Dauphin and chased after a passenger who jumped out of the car and ran. Of course, McDonald lost his life in the chase when the fleeing man, Daniel Giddings, turned and fatally shot the 30-year-old cop.


This time, the bad guy in question was unarmed. Warren ran into a building on 22nd Street and was eventually subdued and arrested by Moore and Clever, Cochrane said. The cops found $36,000 worth of marijuana in Warren’s car. He was charged with drug possession charges and resisting arrest.

But something else happened when the police chased and scuffled with Warren: a neighbor reached out. Cochrane said an unidentified resident called 9-1-1 and asked that backup be sent for the officers, who couldn’t get to their radios during the incident. “The officers were really happy about that part of it,” Cochrane. “It made them feel good to know someone was watching out for them and tried to help.”

Posted by David Gambacorta @ 9:51 PM  Permalink | 6 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 8:09 PM, 10/11/2008
    This story should get more play. Lots of readers like to think no one in "those neighborhoods" ever want to help the police. The more that people hear about good citizens, the easier it is to be a good citizen.
    — Benj Franklin
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 7:28 PM, 10/13/2008
    Benj: too bad we don't hear more stories like this, but unfortunately there just aren't more stories in this City.
    — tonyS
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:53 PM, 10/16/2008
    KUDOS to the 911 caller !
    — MrMayhem
  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 1:43 PM, 10/17/2008
    yeah what he said, good job, the police are the good guys
    — MoBayYankee


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Dana DiFilippo has covered murder, mayhem and miscellany at the Daily News since 2000. She grew up in Delaware County and studied journalism and photography at Penn State University. E-mail tips to difilid@phillynews.com.

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Stephanie Farr has been reporting for the Daily News since 2007, covering everything from gay porn stars who entered the burglary business to moon trees, skinheads, murders and naked bike rides. She covers crime, both in the city and suburbs, and keeps clippings of bizarre Associated Press articles. Her favorite this year was the story about the drunk in Punxsutawney who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dead opossum. E-mail tips to farrs@phillynews.com.

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Phillip Lucas joined the Daily News crime team in 2011. He grew up on the mean streets of Seattle and studied journalism and psychology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before landing in the City of Brotherly Love, Phillip was a reporter for The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. Email tips to lucasp@phillynews.com.

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Morgan Zalot is the newest crime reporter at the Daily News, starting in 2011 after interning at the paper twice as a Temple University journalism student. In her past stints at the DN, she covered just about everything, from drunken Phillies fans to a barber shop in a high school to a grisly murder-suicide. She’s a born-and-raised Philly girl who grew up in the Northeast. E-mail tips to zalotm@philly.com.

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