Public assistance being sought on girl’s possible location
Tiffany McDaniels, last seen by her family at 4 p.m. on Friday, May 17, is about 5-foot-5 and 105 pounds, police said.
Coatesville officers found a missing teenage girl over the weekend; however, it was not the one who has been the target of an intensive search, police said.
On Monday at 8:50 p.m., police made contact with a 17-year-old Downingtown girl who had been called in by the school as a possible runaway, Officer David Marquette reported. Police said she provided false identification and resisted efforts to take her into custody. She was charged with disorderly conduct and released to her father, police said.
Police said investigators still have no substantive leads on the disappearance of Tiffany McDaniels, 14, and are seeking the public’s assistance to locate her. The teen was last seen on Friday, May 17, about 4 p.m. at her home in the unit block of of South Eighth Avenue. Det. Brandon Harris said police have been going door-to-door searching for information.
“Any help we can get would be appreciated,” Harris said. “Finding her is a top priority.” Police have emphasized that the teen, who does have a recent history of running away, is not in trouble and that authorities are just interested in her safe return. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 610-384-2300.
Police were dispatched to the 360 block of Fleetwood Street for a criminal-mischief incident on Monday at 2:30 p.m., Officer Brenden M. Boyle reported. The victim said five Plexiglas windows, which were intact, one to two weeks ago, had been damaged, but nothing appeared to be missing from inside the building, police said. Anyone with information is asked to call police at 610-384-2300.
Officer David Marquette detained Grant L. Maxwell, 43, of Coatesville, in the unit block of South Sixth Avenue on Monday at 11:15 p.m., police said. Maxwell was taken into custody because he was known to have an active criminal warrant, police said.
On Monday at 2:48 p.m., Officer Rodger Ollis was dispatched to the train station on Fleetwood Street after a witness observed Shariff Grant, 30, of Coatesville, engaged in possible suspicious activity, police said. Grant told Ollis that he was just urinating; however, he was found to be in possession of marijuana and arrested for disorderly conduct, drug possession and related offenses, police said.
