PRINCESS ANNE, Md. (AP) A helicopter that has been stirring up controversy on the lower Eastern Shore has left for a new home in Montgomery County.
Princess Anne Police Chief Scott Keller says police officials from Montgomery County loaded the helicopter onto a flatbed truck Wednesday for a trip across the Chesapeake Bay.
The helicopter was awarded to the Princess Anne police department in 2005 through a program that hands out excess military property to law enforcement agencies. But officials in Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester counties were reluctant to pay for a helicopter program.
In Montgomery County, the county executive and police department are pushing to a program with two helicopters, but councilmembers say the county doesn't have the money to pay for it.
Source WJZ.com
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4 comments:
Now that its gone they can reveal where they were "hiding" it LOL.Ah.Somerset County.
Too bad you do not get DT. Article told exactly where it has been.
Nobody needs DT
I really wish the helicopter had been turned over to SBYnews. I can not think of a better way to make use of government funds. SBYnews has saved native easternshore taxpayers way more than the expense of a surplus helicopter.
I'm really sorry that the Federal Government decided not donate it to SBYnews instead. This piece of equipment would have been of much more value exposing Federal, State, and local corruption. One might even say that SBYnews is the modern day Batman of Gotham City - (Salisbury).
Beazer
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