Police arrest three suspects for auto theft in Clarksville
Bentley worth $150,000 and two other cars were being packaged for shipping
Howard County police have charged three men with auto theft of three vehicles, including a Bentley convertible worth $150,000.
Police received a tip on Tuesday that a number of stolen vehicles were being packaged into a container in the county for suspected shipping overseas. The tip led police to Ellis Wise Junkyard in the 12000 block of Hall Shop Road in Clarksville, where police covertly observed three vehicles being loaded into a shipping container. Police confirmed the vehicles were stolen as they maintained surveillance of the site.
Detectives observed a semi-truck loaded with the container leaving the junkyard, followed by a Toyota Echo with two occupants who had been observed loading the vehicles into the container, and initiated a traffic stop of both vehicles.
Based on additional evidence obtained during the traffic stop, police arrested the three men and obtained a search and seizure warrant for the container.
Inside the container were a 2007 Bentley convertible stolen from Florida on Dec. 15, valued at $150,000; a 2008 Toyota Highlander stolen from Washington, D.C., on Dec. 13 in an armed carjacking, valued at $25,000; and a 2005 BMW 330, stolen from another county in Maryland on Dec. 13, valued at $20,000.
Police also discovered the Toyota being driven by the suspects was displaying tags from the BMW 330.
The driver of the semi-truck, Nam V. Nguyen, 51, of Hyattsville, the driver of the Toyota, Edward K. Aboagye, 28, of Laurel, and the passenger of the Toyota, Sean E. Brown, 38, of Douglassville, Ga., were subsequently charged. The men face three theft charges, including theft of $100,000 or more, and three counts of motor vehicle theft.
All three suspects were released from Howard County Detention Center on Wednesday on $7,500 unsecured bonds.
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Saturday, December 19, 2009
DSP Press Releases
Man Found Dead Near Bowers Beach
Location: South Bowers Breach Road, South of Bowers Beach, Kent County, DE
Date of Occurrence: Saturday December 19, 2009 discovered at 2:09 p.m.
Victim: Robert Weldon, 57, Milford, DE
Resume:
Delaware State Police are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a ditch near Bowers Beach.
Weldon was discovered just after 2 p.m. today after he was found in a ditch, containing approximately 4 foot of water, near his Jeep Cherokee. His body was outside the Jeep and it appeared that he had been in the water for over an hour.
Troopers believe Weldon was four wheeling in the area when he drove in the ditch. It appeared that Weldon made an attempt to get out of his Jeep when he succumbed to his death.
His body was turned over to the State Medical Examiners to determine the exact cause of death. The investigation is ongoing and troopers will determine at the conclusion of the autopsy if Weldon suffered a medical condition or died as a result of the weather.
Pedestrian Struck by Motor Vehicle
Location: U.S. 202, Concord Pike, at Woodlawn Road north of Talleyville, New Castle County, DE
Date of Occurrence: Friday December 18, 2009 at 10:43 p.m.
Pedestrian: Evelyn Daniels, 54, Wilmington, DE
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Delaware State Police are investigating a pedestrian crash that has left a Wilmington woman in very serious condition.
The crash occurred when Daniels was crossing U.S. 202 from east to west and ran into the path of a 2003 Toyota Camry which was traveling in the northbound right-hand lane when she was struck. Daniels was pinned under the Toyota for approximately 20 minutes until members of the Talleyville Fire Company could free her. She was taken to Christiana Hospital and admitted with multiple blunt force trauma to the head and torso. She is listed in serious condition.
The driver of the Toyota was Robert Brazas, 60, of Oxford, PA. The investigation is on going and Daniels was wearing dark clothing at the time of the crash. Alcohol is suspected on the part of Daniels.
Additional 24 Charges Filed Against Doc. Earl B. Bradley
Location: 18259, Coastal Highway, Baybee Pediatrics, Lewes, DE
Date of Occurrence: Various dates and times between August and December of 2009.
Resume: Doc. Earl. B. Bradley turned himself in to Troop 4 Detectives early this morning. Since Doc. Earl B. Bradley turned himself in to police an additional 24 charges have been file against him. More victims have been identified in the investigation; however it is still too early to determine the exact number of victims.
Doc. Earl B. Bradley’s total charges consist of, 8 Counts of Rape 1st with a victim less then 16 years of age (f), 3 Counts of Rape 2nd with a victim less than 16 years of age (f), 14 Counts of Sexual Exploitation of a Child by Photo or Film (f), and Endangering the Welfare of a Child (f).
Doc. Earl B. Bradley was arraigned at Delaware Justice of the Peace # 3 in Georgetown, DE, and committed to Sussex Correction Institute in lieu of $2.9 million dollars cash bail.
The details above are all that can be released at this time as not compromise the continuing investigation.
Parents of Child who wish to contact investigators can contact Troop 4 Detectives at (302) 586-5850 ext 216.
This One Is For You Mrs. Seidel
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Senate Passes Critical Pentagon Budget Bill
Legislation combines money for the military with more help for jobless
WASHINGTON - Senators worked through a December blizzard Saturday to pass legislation ensuring that U.S. troops are armed and the jobless don't lose their benefits — and take one more step toward a Christmas week showdown over health care.
The 88-10 early morning vote on the $626 billion defense spending bill and other must-pass items cleared Congress' plate of a major item of unfinished business and meant lawmakers immediately could resume their acrimonious debate on health care.
The impressive vote demonstrated sweeping support for paying for troops fighting overseas. The path to that point, however, was poisoned with partisanship as Republicans sought to derail the measure in an effort to stretch out action on health care past Christmas.
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Obama: U.S. ‘On Cusp’ Of Health Care Reform
Sen. Nelson from Nebraska to give measure 60th, decisive vote
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama says he thinks the U.S. is "on the cusp of making health care reform a reality."
Obama spoke at the White House on Saturday not long after Senate Democratic leaders secured the support of Nebraska's Ben Nelson to provide the 60th and deciding vote for health care legislation.
The president said that "it now appears the American people will have the vote they deserve" on this important issue.
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Red Kettle Campaign - UPDATE
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THANK YOU, to all that have so generously volunteered their time to this worthwhile campaign.
HISTORICAL COMMENTS BY GEORGE CHEVALLIER
The DistributorsAt one time, flour was obtained directly from the local grist mill by the housewife that needed flour daily for her baking needs. Distributors were only a late 19th century addition to the everyday life of America. The only listings in the 1878 Maryland Directory for Salisbury are for Dry Goods, General Merchandise and Groceries & Provisions. There is no mention of a distributor of any kind. By 1891, along with the flour, feed and grist mills of James K. Disharoon, Thomas Humphreys and G. W. White, there was one wholesale grocer listed and that was B. L. Gillis & Son.
By 1899, the City Directory listed two distributors, B. L. Gillis was still doing business on Dock St. (now Market St.) and H. S. Todd had started a distributing business on Main St. near the Main St. bridge. Todd was still around through the 1960’s, but only had tobacco products and candy.
1907 had four distributors in its listings along with 35 retail grocers. The distributors were all located near the Fulton Siding station of the railroad. The station master’s house can still be seen there at the corner of Rt. 50 and Mill St. The staple of the day was flour and it was brought in packaged in 100 lb. bags. Many of these were broken down into smaller packaging for the retail grocers to sell. The large distributors were B. L. Gillis & Son on Dock St., Wm. E. Sheppard & Co. on Main St. (the building is still there on the NE side of the river), Turner Bros. on Main St. (currently the Port Exchange Building) and G. E. Rounds on W. Church St. (he sold only fruits and produce)
A new distributor opened up in 1911 on Mill St. next to the Farmers and Planters Co. This was the firm of T. L. Ruark & Co. The building was purchased by the R. C. Holloway Co. in 1975. It is still there operating as the R. C. Holloway Co. They are warehouse distributors for automotive, heavy duty, marine and industrial products. So the 100-year-old building is still in the distribution business.
By 1921, Doody Bros. came on the scene to give competition to the established firms of Ruark, Sheppard and the Turners. The emergence of the “super market” put a damper on the operations of many of the local grocery stores that seemed to dot every corner in Salisbury. They had their own distribution systems and had little need for the packaged flour or any of the other grocery items of the local distributors.
Like everything else, the distribution systems today dwarf anything that could have been imagined 100 years ago. The systems supplying the likes of Wal-Mart and McDonalds entail hundreds of trucks on the highways at any given moment. But, years ago, the trains coming into Fulton Siding with two box cars full of flour for the local distributors were a weekly occurrence.
Inmates Don't Like Sheriff Joe's Christmas Music - Court Says That's Just Too Bad
Sheriff Joe Arpaio - the self-proclaimed "toughest sheriff" in America - likes Christmas music, especially "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and anything by Alvin and the Chipmunks, and apparently he thinks the 8,000 inmates inside his Phoenix jail should, too.
So it was with some glee that his Maricopa County office announced Thursday in a red-and-green press release that the "sixth and perhaps final lawsuit" brought by inmates to stop the sheriff from playing the holiday songs all day, every day, during the holidays had been dismissed in federal court.
"We keep winning these lawsuits. Inmates should stop acting like the Grinch who stole Christmas and give up wasting the court's time with such frivolous assertions," it read. "But chances are they'll keep suing and we'll keep winning."
The latest lawsuit was filed by inmate William Lamb, who said that being forced to listen to the Christmas songs 12 hours a day was a violation of his civil and religious rights. But U.S. District Judge Roz Silver disagreed, dismissing the case and denying Lamb's claim for $250,000 in damages.
Sheriff Arpaio catapulted to national attention when he cracked down on the thousands of illegal immigrants who swarm daily through his county; put inmates in pink jumpsuits and underwear; worked them in chain gangs; housed them in tents in the Arizona desert and fed them bologna sandwiches.
He said that his Christmas selections were multi-ethnic and culturally diverse, from all faiths and ethnicities. He told The Washington Times earlier this year that in addition to tunes by Alvin and the Chipmunks, the music included the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Bing Crosby and Doctor Demento.
At the time, he said "all people everywhere deserve a little Christmas cheer."
Lt. Brian Lee, the sheriff's spokesman, said the court issued a summary judgment upholding the decision to "inject the holiday spirit into the lives of those incarcerated over the holiday season in the third-largest jail system in the U.S."
He said inmates have sued six times claiming the music was in violation of their religious rights or cruel and unusual punishment, but the court disagreed - finding no evidence of fact, so Sheriff Arpaio was entitled to the judgment as a matter of law.
The sheriff is no stranger to controversy, although his philosophy of "zero tolerance towards the criminal element" has been embraced by his deputies and the community alike. He was first elected in 1996 and was re-elected by double-digit margins in 2000, 2004 and 2008. In 2007 a petition to recall him failed to gain enough voter signatures to get on the ballot.
Most recently he has come to the attention of the federal government. He was notified in March by the Justice Department that he may have unfairly targeted Hispanics and Spanish-speaking people for arrest. In October, the Department of Homeland Security revoked the authority of 160 of his federally trained deputies to make immigration arrests in the field.
The sheriff has denied any wrongdoing and has said he welcomed and would cooperate in any investigation of his office. He has continued to arrest illegal immigrants under recently passed state laws.
Tired of waiting for the federal government to secure the U.S.-Mexico border and concerned about the potential terrorism threat that the lack of border security posed, he assigned deputies in 2006 to monitor his 9,226-square-mile county for illegal immigrants. He targeted the illegals under an anti-smuggling law that state lawmakers passed to fight drug trafficking.
"My message is clear: If you come here and I catch you, you're going straight to jail," he said at the time. "We're going to arrest any illegal who violates this new law, and I'm not going to turn these people over to federal authorities so they can have a free ride back to Mexico. I'll give them a free ride to my jail."
Sheriff Arpaio, 77, captured headlines nationwide when he set up a jail system that included tents, spent less than 15 cents per meal per inmate, and banned smoking, coffee, movies, pornographic magazines and unrestricted television in all of his jails. He also assigned both men and women to chain gangs.
The sheriff also has created several rehabilitative programs, including "Hard Knocks High," the only accredited high school program administered by a sheriff's office in a U.S. jail.
More recently he has been mentioned as a possible candidate for governor, with polls showing that he has a commanding lead as a Republican candidate for the November 2010 race.
A November poll by Rasmussen Reports said that of 1,200 likely Arizona voters, he was the Republicans' "best shot at holding onto the Arizona governorship in 2010." The poll said Sheriff Arpaio led the expected Democratic challenger, Terry Goddard, Arizona's attorney general, by 12 points and that 64 percent of voters statewide said he was doing the right thing by working around federal law to continue his aggressive actions against illegal immigration.
Lt. Lee said his boss had received "multiple inquiries locally and nationally" about the latest Rasmussen poll, but had made no decision regarding the governor's race.
So it was with some glee that his Maricopa County office announced Thursday in a red-and-green press release that the "sixth and perhaps final lawsuit" brought by inmates to stop the sheriff from playing the holiday songs all day, every day, during the holidays had been dismissed in federal court.
"We keep winning these lawsuits. Inmates should stop acting like the Grinch who stole Christmas and give up wasting the court's time with such frivolous assertions," it read. "But chances are they'll keep suing and we'll keep winning."
The latest lawsuit was filed by inmate William Lamb, who said that being forced to listen to the Christmas songs 12 hours a day was a violation of his civil and religious rights. But U.S. District Judge Roz Silver disagreed, dismissing the case and denying Lamb's claim for $250,000 in damages.
Sheriff Arpaio catapulted to national attention when he cracked down on the thousands of illegal immigrants who swarm daily through his county; put inmates in pink jumpsuits and underwear; worked them in chain gangs; housed them in tents in the Arizona desert and fed them bologna sandwiches.
He said that his Christmas selections were multi-ethnic and culturally diverse, from all faiths and ethnicities. He told The Washington Times earlier this year that in addition to tunes by Alvin and the Chipmunks, the music included the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Bing Crosby and Doctor Demento.
At the time, he said "all people everywhere deserve a little Christmas cheer."
Lt. Brian Lee, the sheriff's spokesman, said the court issued a summary judgment upholding the decision to "inject the holiday spirit into the lives of those incarcerated over the holiday season in the third-largest jail system in the U.S."
He said inmates have sued six times claiming the music was in violation of their religious rights or cruel and unusual punishment, but the court disagreed - finding no evidence of fact, so Sheriff Arpaio was entitled to the judgment as a matter of law.
The sheriff is no stranger to controversy, although his philosophy of "zero tolerance towards the criminal element" has been embraced by his deputies and the community alike. He was first elected in 1996 and was re-elected by double-digit margins in 2000, 2004 and 2008. In 2007 a petition to recall him failed to gain enough voter signatures to get on the ballot.
Most recently he has come to the attention of the federal government. He was notified in March by the Justice Department that he may have unfairly targeted Hispanics and Spanish-speaking people for arrest. In October, the Department of Homeland Security revoked the authority of 160 of his federally trained deputies to make immigration arrests in the field.
The sheriff has denied any wrongdoing and has said he welcomed and would cooperate in any investigation of his office. He has continued to arrest illegal immigrants under recently passed state laws.
Tired of waiting for the federal government to secure the U.S.-Mexico border and concerned about the potential terrorism threat that the lack of border security posed, he assigned deputies in 2006 to monitor his 9,226-square-mile county for illegal immigrants. He targeted the illegals under an anti-smuggling law that state lawmakers passed to fight drug trafficking.
"My message is clear: If you come here and I catch you, you're going straight to jail," he said at the time. "We're going to arrest any illegal who violates this new law, and I'm not going to turn these people over to federal authorities so they can have a free ride back to Mexico. I'll give them a free ride to my jail."
Sheriff Arpaio, 77, captured headlines nationwide when he set up a jail system that included tents, spent less than 15 cents per meal per inmate, and banned smoking, coffee, movies, pornographic magazines and unrestricted television in all of his jails. He also assigned both men and women to chain gangs.
The sheriff also has created several rehabilitative programs, including "Hard Knocks High," the only accredited high school program administered by a sheriff's office in a U.S. jail.
More recently he has been mentioned as a possible candidate for governor, with polls showing that he has a commanding lead as a Republican candidate for the November 2010 race.
A November poll by Rasmussen Reports said that of 1,200 likely Arizona voters, he was the Republicans' "best shot at holding onto the Arizona governorship in 2010." The poll said Sheriff Arpaio led the expected Democratic challenger, Terry Goddard, Arizona's attorney general, by 12 points and that 64 percent of voters statewide said he was doing the right thing by working around federal law to continue his aggressive actions against illegal immigration.
Lt. Lee said his boss had received "multiple inquiries locally and nationally" about the latest Rasmussen poll, but had made no decision regarding the governor's race.
Washington Times
Fernando Guerrero Wins By TKO In Round 4
Fernando Guerrero has won yet another fight with a TKO in the 4th round. Fernando had knocked his opponent down early in the 4th and both fighters went into a slug match and pretty much wore each other out until the Referee stopped the fight.
I should have some pictures in just a few minutes.
I should have some pictures in just a few minutes.