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Fleeing woman hits deputy with van

The 12-year veteran was taken to York Hospital
after being assaulted trying to serve a warrant.
By MIKE HOOVER
Daily Record/Sunday News
Bleeding and injured as he was
thrown to the ground, a York County
deputy sheriff managed to keep his
composure as he called for help,
giving police and sheriffs a detailed
description of a woman who struck
him and fled to avoid getting ar-
rested on warrants according to
court documents.
The woman, identified as Abihail
Toro, 44, of York, remains in York
County Prison on $50,000 bail on ag-
gravated assault charges.
Chad D. Cassel, a 12-year veteran
deputy sheriff, was trying to arrest
Toro on arrest warrants for drug
and theft charges out of Lancaster
County just after 4 p.m. Thursday in
the 500 block of South Queen Street.
Toro ignored Cassel’s instruc-
tions to get out of her van and struck
Cassel and a
marked sheriff’s ve-
body. He was released from the
emergency room just after 9 p.m.
Toro was arrested about 10 a.m.
Friday by deputy sheriffs after she
hicle with the van The assault was a reminder of was found sleeping in a bed at a
before speeding off, the dangers of taking wanted people home in the 100 block of North Penn
according to court into custody, York County Sheriff Street, the sheriff said. She did not
records. She later resist or have anything to say when
Richard Keuerleber said.
abandoned the van she was arrested, he said.
a few blocks away “It could have been a lot worse,” Cassel is home recuperating
at Harding Court he said. “I’m thankful that he is from his injures, Keuerleber said.
and Susquehanna OK.” Cassel is a self-defense and fire-
Toro
Avenue in the city, Cassel and Deputy Sheriff Ken arms instructor for the sheriff’s
according to court records. Leveck were looking for Toro, who department and has the experience
Cassel was taken to York Hospit- had a last listed address in the 500 and background to serve warrants,
al where he needed numerous block of South Queen Street, when Keuerleber said.
stitches to close his wounds and was they noticed her van parked on the “He is very good at what he
treated for cuts and abrasions to his street. does,” Keuerleber said.

DUI case
Soldier of service

Police
found
child
in car
Three cruisers boxed in
a woman after a drunken
driving escapade in York.
By RICK LEE
Daily Record/Sunday News

A Springettsbury Township woman was

awaiting word on her ARD application for a
YORK DAILY RECORD/SUNDAY NEWS — JASON PLOTKIN
drunken driving arrest when she was picked
Maj. Lurlene Mudge spent her final day in the York Salvation Army office watching 1-year-old Bella-Grace Barney for a friend who was in up again for driving under the influence, this
the hospital having a baby. Mudge’s love for children strengthened the group’s youth programs, said George Lenkner, director of time with a child in her car.
community relations and development. She will leave the York Salvation Army for a new post in Cleveland after this weekend. Thursday in York

Director moves on to new post

County court, Joanna Suz-
Online anne Smith, 34, pleaded
To share your guilty to reckless endan-
thoughts on germent, fleeing police
this story, go and two counts of DUI.
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exchange. She was sentenced to
The Salvation Army’s of her position as the group’s officer — 20 days in county prison

Maj. Lurlene Mudge will
complete her assignment
in York this weekend.
By EMILY OPILO
Daily Record/Sunday News
Maj. Lurlene Mudge has the Salvation
Army in her blood.
Members of her family have been serv-
ing the nonprofit organization for five gen-
erations. Her parents, like her, were both
officers, and so is her brother.
It’s not an easy life. Officers are perpet-
ually moving, reassigned to a new location
Saying goodbye
After six years of service in York, Maj.
Lurlene Mudge of the Salvation Army will
move to a new post in Cleveland. She will be
replaced by Majs. Dennis and Erma Camuti
and Lt. Jessica Lowe.
Mudge will lead a final service in York at
10:45 a.m. Sunday at the Salvation Army
Chapel at 50 E. King St.
every few years. But Mudge has been fortu-
nate, spending a full six years directing the
York Salvation Army.
This weekend that will come to an end.
On Sunday, Mudge will perform one final
church service — a regular responsibility
before leaving for a new post in Cleveland.
A farewell gathering will be held after-
followed by 40 days of
house arrest, 24 months of probation and fines
ward in her honor. totaling $1,800.
After 23 years in the business, the move
is far from her first, but it will be bitter-
According to township police reports, an-
other driver called 911 shortly before 3 a.m.
sweet, Mudge said. about Smith’s erratic driving on Feb. 14. The
Of the many assignments she’s had — witness told police he first saw Smith appar-
ently “passed out” in a Mazda 3 in the left
including three years in South Africa —
York has been the most welcoming com- turn lane of East Market Street at Northern
munity, she said. Way.
“I’ve never felt as loved or as accepted The witness remained on the phone with
unconditionally as I did in York,” she said. police as he followed her to Concord Road,
“Not in my whole life. I stand amazed.” where the car clipped a curb and then went
north on Mt. Zion Road, where the Mazda
Mudge was still grieving when
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made an abrupt U-turn and headed south at a
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