Assault and Armed Serious Robbery Investigation Concluded Suspects Charged

On July 15, 2008, Ocean City Police responded to a room at the Dunes Motel, located at 2700 Baltimore Avenue, in reference to an armed robbery and serious assault.

When police arrived at the scene, they found an adult male victim with several severe injuries. The victim related to the responding officers, an unusual set of events leading up to the victim being assaulted and robbed.

The victim initially told police, earlier in the evening he had met several subjects on the Boardwalk and agreed to meet them later at his room at the Dunes Motel. Sometime later that evening, the victim stated he received a telephone call from one of these persons asking him to exit his hotel room and to meet them in the motel parking lot.

The victim stated he went down to the motel parking lot and met one of the men. The two men went up to the motel room. Once in the motel room, two additional men arrived. At this point the victim told police he was attacked, bound and gagged.

The victim said the three men demanded money and began to search and ransack the motel room for money and valuables. While the suspects were going through the victim’s room, they beat him during which the suspects broke a glass beer bottle on the victims head. During the attack the victim related the suspects discussed killing him.

After the suspects left the motel room, the victim was able to free himself and contact the police.

OCPD investigators arrived on the scene and began to focus on the victim’s account of the events leading up to and during the robbery. Detectives eventually determined the victim had met the three male suspects earlier in the evening in the downtown Ocean City area. The victim related he had attempted to negotiate an illegal drug transaction with suspects.

The victim said he believed the males were meeting him at the motel for the purposes of selling him illegal drugs. The consequences of this arrangement left the victim severely beaten and injured.