Bear Man Charged with Groping a Girl and a Woman at Battery Park in New Castle
After a police chase down Del. 9, a Bear man was charged with groping a teenage girl and a woman at Battery Park in New Castle, police reported this morning. The incident unfolded about 4:30 p.m. Saturday when New Castle City officer Paul Allston, on patrol in the area, was alerted by a woman who called 911. The woman pointed to a man she said fondled a 16-year-old girlbs buttocks moments earlier on the parkbs walking path as well as grabbing a 44-year-old woman around the waist, Lt. Adam P. Brams said. The man, identified as Gregory S. Byerly, 43, of the 1700 block of Barbara Circle, got in his truck and maneuvered around the officerbs vehicle and fled, striking a parked vehicle, Brams said. He said Byerly refused to pull over and drove recklessly until he was boxed in and stopped on Del. […]