OCEAN CITY, MD – (November 2, 2015): Two male victims chased an 18-year-old suspect in Ocean City Sunday afternoon, after the man fired a replica firearm into their vehicle.
On November 1, 2015, at approximately 12 p.m. Ocean City police responded to 14thStreet and St. Louis Avenue in reference to a weapon violation. When officers arrived, a suspect was being detained by two victims.
Officers discovered that the suspect, 18-year-old Devin J. Gales of Ocean City, was in the area of 14th Street and Philadelphia Avenue when Gales fired a replica firearm into a passing vehicle. Gales then fled west towards St. Louis Avenue. Two males in the passing vehicle chased Gales and detained him in the area of 14th Street and St. Louis Avenue before calling police. The replica firearm was located nearby and, despite its close resemblance to a handgun, was later determined to be an airsoft BB gun.
Ocean City police have charged Gales with possession of a replica gun, discharging an air-gun within city limits, two counts of reckless endangerment and two counts of second degree assault. Gales was seen by a Maryland District Court Commissioner and is currently being held at the Ocean City Public Safety Building on $5,000 bond.
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7 comments:
Ah... it was a toy, so they got scared and attacked him, he should be suing them!
Let me shot you with mine, then decide if it's a toy.
I guess the charges are trumped up also? Bonehead.
He appears to be a male but hardly a "man" :(
So it's illegal to own a replica of a firearm? Explain please.
7:50, EVERYTHING is illegal in Maryland! That's the way it is when liberal loonies rule.
Why is a toy kids gun illegal? What the guy did was just a prank.
Well lets really think about what a trumped up charge is. Possession of a replica gun.is what? Having something that's fake. Not real. And discharging an air within city limits... Well that's open to interpretation. An air gun can be many things. Like the dew tour has air guns during into crowds constantly shooting t shirts. Let's face it.... Assault and wreckless endangerment is all that applies here. But after the state makes a plea with the extra charges taken off the plate, everyone seems happy.
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