Crime & Safety

Baldwin Borough Police Briefs (Feb. 28-March 6)

Police report two DUI arrests, including one of a nearby Brentwood Borough resident.

The Baldwin-Whitehall Patch visited the  on Monday, March 7, to gather 's police briefs for the time period of Feb. 28-March 6.

The borough reported two incidents of driving under the influence for that time period.

The first incident occurred on March 2 at approximately 1:10 a.m. when a Baldwin Borough Police officer was conducting a traffic stop on Becks Run Road near the intersection of Wagner Street.

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During that stop, the officer noticed another vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed and temporarily skidding around a nearby bend in the road. 

The officer conducting the stop then contacted the Brentwood Borough Police Department, which had sent an officer to back up the Baldwin officer for the traffic stop, and told Brentwood Police about the skidding vehicle.

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A Brentwood officer eventually caught up to the vehicle that the Baldwin officer had described and pulled it over on Hopeland Street, just off of Becks Run. 

After the Baldwin officer finished conducting the traffic stop, he reported to that Hopeland location where the Brentwood officer had already administered a breath-analyzer test to the vehicle's driver – Kenneth Snyder, 25, of 73 Owendale Ave. in Brentwood. The test yielded positive results.

Police administered field-sobriety tests before taking Snyder into custody.  After being taken to the Baldwin Borough Police Department, he failed another breath-analyzer test.

Snyder was eventually released to a friend.

He is being charged with DUI and reckless driving.

The second incident occurred on March 6 at approximately 9:18 p.m. when a Baldwin Borough Police officer noticed a vehicle failing to stop for a stop sign while traveling down Glass Run Road at the Walton Road intersection.

The officer attempted to pull the vehicle over shortly after it ran the stop sign, but the driver — Linda Gudukas, 47, of 1025 Glass Run Road — continued a bit farther down the road to her residence.

After police administered field-sobriety tests, Gudukas was taken back to the Baldwin Borough Police Department, where she failed a breath-analyzer test.

Gudukas was eventually taken back to her residence, where she was released to her live-in boyfriend.

She is being charged with DUI and failing to stop at a stop sign.


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