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Thursday, November 15, 2018

LPR Alert Leads to Early Morning Arrest

OCEAN CITY, MD – (November 14, 2018): Shortly before 9 a.m. on Tuesday, November 13, 2018, Ocean City Emergency Communications received an alert from a license plate reader (LPR) located on eastbound Route 90 for a vehicle registered to a wanted individual driving into Ocean City. A traffic stop was initiated on the vehicle shortly after by an Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officer on Coastal Highway on 94th Street. As the officer was waiting for additional police to arrive for backup, the vehicle fled the traffic stop and drove southbound on Coastal Highway.

The vehicle made a right turn onto 65th Street and collided with a marked OCPD patrol car being driven by a Public Safety Aide. The vehicle continued to flee west on 65th Street, eventually came to a stop in the Ocean City Public Works Complex and attempted to flee on foot but was quickly apprehended by police.

The driver of the vehicle was placed under arrest and identified as Anthony J. Roper, 39, of Delmar, MD. The Public Safety Aide in the patrol car that was struck was transported to Atlantic General Hospital as a precaution. He sustained a minor neck injury. Roper was not injured during the incident.

Roper was wanted for several drugs and weapons charges stemming from Wicomico County, MD. Ocean City Police have charged him with failure to immediately stop at the scene of an accident involving an injury, reckless driving, attempt to elude uniformed police, and multiple other traffic violations. He was seen by a Maryland District Court Commissioner and transferred to the Worcester County Jail without bond.

12 comments:

  1. big brother IS watching you in the biggest brother state known as MD.

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  2. These Plate readers should be Unconditional Cops are to damn lazy to punch in your plate on there own next will be REPLACING COPS . Think about it.

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  3. Another genius throwing his life away.

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  4. Thank you OCPD. Great job getting this bum off the street.

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  5. Plan on getting arrested if you owe a traffic ticket and the LPR gets you stay out of Nazi OC.

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  6. This is actually funny , this guy will be back on the streets in 24 hours. We don't punish criminals anymore , live with it people. Thanks to all the Lawyers and judges in Maryland , they all need to be in jail. It's a commin folks , civil unrest is blooming.

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  7. Idiot! Of all the places he could have ended up, he turned directly into the courthouse parking lot, full of police.
    I mean, there are only 3 ways out of OC. Did he not think they wouldn't catch him?

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  8. What? No drugs or weapons in the car??

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  9. LPR's are a great way to catch criminals, if you can't afford to do the time, then don't do the crime. We should have more of them.

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  10. Keep automating police work BC you cops will not Exsist in 20/30 yrs

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  11. Apple's face recognition will be next and they will nab the next CRIMINAL visitor no matter what they are driving.

    Somehow I wonder why OC spends so much money chasing crime OUTSIDE of the town. It's like raising the Postal rates to cover the increase in Amazon's business.

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