Limerick Police Blotter

The Limerick Police Department logged 548 calls between June 11 and July 1. Among them were the following items of note. Arrests, where mentioned, do not indicate a conviction.

Minor arrested for using false identification

An Upper Providence woman was charged with liquor law violations and carrying a false identification after she allegedly tried to use a fake drivers' license at the Railroad Street Bar & Grill on June 22, 2012.

Railroad Street Bar & Grill owner Mike McCloskey called police the morning of June 23 to report the incident.

Police said McCloskey’s “ID man” was shown a license belonging to a Casey R. Novarina, with an address of 103 Berkshire Lane, Vincentown, NJ. McCloskey told police he was suspicious of the ID because he is “familiar with false NJ IDs, as NJ is the only Mid-Atlantic state that doesn’t embed information on a magnetic strip.”

McCloskey told police that he photographed the ID and told the woman he would “double-check” the information. The report states that Novarina allegedly “started acting ‘squirrelly’ and stated she would go somewhere else.”

McCloskey reported to Nestler that he checked the ID’s address on the internet and found a matching address in Upper Providence. Nestler reported that he checked Novarina’s information via PennDOT and, after advising Upper Providence police of the situation, went to the listed address.

Police were unable to locate Novarina at her Upper Providence home, but subsequently located her at her workplace in Royersford.

Nestler requested that Novarina turn over the purported fake ID. Novarina allegedly “initially tried to profess ignorance, but was encouraged to produce the i.d. for confiscation.”

Police said Novarina drove home and returned with the identification. When Nestler checked the identification, PennDOT’s system returned a “no record found” result.

Novarina was arrested and cited for liquor law violations and carrying a false identification card.

Attempted theft from Kohl’s department store

A Schwenksville resident was charged with retail theft on June 23 after she reportedly took items from the Royersford Kohl's department store and attempted to leave without paying for them.

Police said that Kohl’s security supervisor Ben Zieser reported seeing Gina Marie Moisey, of 210 Lexington Avenue, Schwenksville, enter the store and take several items from the misses’, juniors’, boys’, and shoe sections of the store. Zieser reported that Moisey then went to the fitting room and allegedly concealed the items in a blue Giant insulated food bag. Zieser told police the bag was lined with foil in order to defeat the sensor tags on the clothing.

Moisey was allegedly seen bypassing the registers without paying for the items placed in the bag. Zieser stopped Moisey and took her to the security office, where he called police.

The value of the stolen items was $335.39. Kohl’s recovered the items from the bag.

Moisey was arrested and charged with misdemeanor retail theft, then released on her own recognizance.

Purse stolen from fast food restaurant

A Limerick woman reported a stolen purse to police on June 29. 

The victim told police that she and her family were at the Wendy’s restaurant at 70 Buckwalter Road around 9:30pm. When the family went to the car to leave, Basile realized she had left her purse inside. She returned to the restaurant to retrieve it, but the purse was already missing.

The victim told police she asked the employees and searched the dining area but no one saw her purse. She told police she lost her phone, keys, identification, cash and a checkbook.

The woman told police that she had already closed the bank account and the locks and garage door codes were being changed.

Iochum spoke to the manager at the Wendy’s, who advised the police that the restaurant does not have video surveillance. The manager told police that there was a “group of juveniles” in the restaurant, but he did not see them take a purse.

Iochum reports that the case was closed because there are no further leads to investigate.