Incident: Sobriety Checkpoint
Date of Incident: 20 December 2008
Location: E/B College Avenue at Spring Avenue, Salisbury, MD
Narrative:
On 20 December 2008, the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office teamed with the Salisbury Police and Maryland Natural Resources Police Departments to conduct a sobriety checkpoint. The checkpoint operated between 10:15 PM and 12:45 AM, during which 301 vehicles passed through. Of those vehicles, four drivers were pulled to the side for the evaluation of alcohol impairment. Of those, two were arrested for DUI. Both were released on citations:
1. William Leatherbury Jr., 49, Salisbury, MD
2. Matthew Benton Tullos, 32, Salisbury, MD
Additionally three individuals were arrested for Possession of CDS and one was arrested on an outstanding warrant.
1. David Allen Cutlip, 41, Salisbury, MD – Possession of Crack Cocaine – Released by Commissioner on Personal Recognizance
2. Jared Christopher Mitchell, 22, Salisbury, MD – charged with Possession of Marijuana with the Intent to Distribute – Held WCDC on $20,000.00 bond.
3. Jared Christopher Mitchell, 22, Salisbury, MD – Violation of Probation Arrest Warrant on the original charges of Possession with the Intent to Distribute Marijuana. Held WCDC pending return to Worcester County.
4. Keith Allen Dutton, 21, Salisbury, MD – charged with Possession of Marijuana with the Intent to Distribute – Held WCDC on $20,000.00 bond.
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16 comments:
The crack head set free and the pot head on $20,000 bond??? is it just me??? must have been a lot of pot I guess.
Good job by the Police. Now lets start doing them at drinking time. There are 80,000. plus residence in Wicomico County. Four drunks before 9pm aint bad. There are many more after 9pm.
Use one Cop from each area, Madd volunteers, and cameras. Now you got a check point.
I know David Cutlip and its a shame. The guy had the world in his pocket. Ran a local tattoo shop that had been around for years making solid 6 figures...then DRUGS happened to him. Fired from the shop,on the outs with many,many friends and now charged with crack.
He has always been a "charmer" and talked his way into an OR release I am sure.
Lesson learned kids....DO NOT DO DRUGS! Nothing is THAT bad.
If the pothead has a good lawyer he will be fine. In Maryland believe it or not under 50lbs in one bag is considered a misdemeanor. And if he hs a legit medical reason a max fine of $100.
Far as bail he got screwed or has a record.
FREE THE SEED!
help me out crack head out pot head in
Ah, sobriety checkpoints -- the police state in action. Stopping everyone without probable cause to check for evidence of criminal activity should scare people. Allowing the police this much authority over our lives is dangerous. But people seem to think this is a good idea because a couple people who had been drinking are now in jail.
Even if you don't buy the argument that this is an infringement on our civil liberties, it's a huge waste of cops' time and money. Out of 301 people, 2 were arrested. That is 7/10 of a percent. That is an effective use of tax dollars? It makes much more sense for cops to hang out arround bars and wait for people exiting them to exhibit drunk driving behavior. I've seen cops outside of Brew River doing this.
This is crazy! Marijuana should be legal!
Yeah we can def. tell who uses drugs..look at the comments...we need to keep people like you off the streets and locked up! no wonder salisbury is looking bad more each day..
Anon 11:23
They don't need to be locked up. They need to be given a hefty fine. Do you have any idea how much tax money it is costing you to put these idiots in jail? Whereas if you were to say, give that moron a $500 fine every time they get busted for a little bit of weed, the state would be MAKING money, not losing money. Marijuana should not be legal, but it needs to be decriminalized. We lose too much money locking dumb kids up. And we are screwing our own future up by doing it. A lot of these kids are just having a good time in college, yet they're smart enough to be going to school to get a degree to possibly help you sometime in the future (doctors, lawyers, etc.). Now that they have a criminal record, who's going to hire them when they graduate? So instead, they end up working at Lowe's or something to make ends meet because you had them locked up for an ounce of marijuana when they were 22 and made a mistake and screwed their degree.
How do they catch people with pot unless they are smoking it while driving? And if this is so then the charge should be "driving a vehicle while being a idiot". And if "pot" causes this kind of reaction when being under the influence then the users should not drive in the first place. They may kill someone.Oh yeah its okay to kill some one while being high, just don't have any on you at the time. Or so Davis has said.
I havent seen a seed in years.
I just smoked pot, wait a minute. Im feeling the urge to rob,rape,pilage, whats happening to me. You gotta be kidding me. Get real people. Im actually preparing a nice dinner for all the family coming by tonight.
Any chance these fine law enforcement chaps can use our tax money a little more effectively and help us with the seemingly daily armed robberies and open air gunfire instead of locking up Cheech and/or Chong? And if your genuine goal is to keep the REAL dangerous drunks off the road, set up your check point during/after last call. The real drunks are only getting warmed up at 11:00 p.m.
Anonymous 1050am, Put down your Liberal glass of kool-aid. If one of your family members was killed by a drunk driver, would you STILL be screaming about civil liberties.NO, You would blame the police for not catching that person. And, the Police sit outside of Brew River to MAYBE deter drinking and driving and deal with the fights that seem to occur there on a weekly basis. Or according to you, we should put them in timeout. Merry Christmas !
10:50 am here again -- civil liberties aren't a conservative or a liberal issue. They are an issue that concern everyone. If you have no problem with the police pawing through your property and examining your every action, that's fine. But for those of us who value our Constitutional rights, let us continue to exercise them.
DUI checkpoints infring on our rights to be free from search and seizure unless the police have probable cause to search you. Simply driving down the road does not give them probable cause to do so. They are also a huge waste of money, as this stop illustrated so well. Over 300 people were stopped and the cops found a whole 2 people to arrrest for DUI.
By your logic we should simply surrender our liberty and be arrested as soon as we step outside after taking a drink. After all, that would prevent 100% of all DUIs. The rest of us, however, realize that you must strike a balance between protecting the public and preserving our rights. Stopping everyone driving down a certain stretch of road is both ineffective to protect the public and a violation of our rights. It's pretty bad practice no matter how you look at it.
tiger i knew dave when he started at windchimes he was a very beautiful soul and had great talent he had found himself then he will do it again love and understanding is what they all need jail is for perverts
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