Missing college students found

By Jessica Fargen

Thursday, February 21, 2008

The six-day search for the missing college couple is over after one of the students landed in a Pennsylvania jail and the other made it home safe to her parents, police say. Daniel B. Querzoli, the 22-year-old Bridgewater State College student missing since Friday, was arrested at 3:15 a.m. today for allegedly speeding down a Pennsylvania highway in a stolen Buick, according to police. His girlfriend is home in New Jersey.

Querzoli was arraigned this morning on one count of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and two counts of receiving stolen property, according to Pennsylvania State Police Sgt. Jonathan Mays. He is being held on $50,000 bail in Cumberland County jail. Meanwhile, his girlfriend of five months, Amy Scott, 21, surfaced yesterday in New York City and is home with her family, according to Providence police.

Scott, a Johnson & Wales student, and Querzoli threw their parents into a panic last week when they disappeared together in a borrowed car on the night of Valentine’s Day, leaving behind credit cards and cell phones. The car, borrowed from Scott’s roommate, was recovered this week in a Manhattan garage. Providence Police Det. Sgt. Carl Weston said Scott’s mother, Laura Tool, called police at 3 p.m. yesterday to say the family was going to pick up Scott in New York City, but she refused to give any more information. He said Scott’s family will not cooperate with police.

“They wouldn’t tell us when they found her. They wouldn’t tell us where she was. They wouldn’t tell us where the car was,” Weston said. “They made some statement that she was in danger and her roommates were in danger. As of now, I haven’t spoken to the family in almost 24 hours.”
He said Tool requested that police send an officer to guard Scott’s Angell Street apartment, but he has refused that request until he has more information. “They insisted that the police protect her roommates at the house, but they wouldn’t tell me what kind of danger,” they were in, Weston said.

Querzoli was pulled over this morning near Carlisle, Pa., for driving 64 mph in a 55 mph zone and erratic driving, police report. Mays said he was driving a 1999 Buick Century that had been reported as stolen in New Jersey. He also allegedly had attached stolen plates to the car, police added. Querzoli’s father, Brian Warren of Bridgewater, has not returned several messages left over two days. With the exception of a phone call Scott made Sunday afternoon from a pay phone in Illinois, no one had heard from the couple until yesterday, according to police.