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Sunday, September 07, 2014

Family Maintains Charges In High-Profile Case Rooted In Politics; State’s Attorney’s Election Foe To Help Defense

                                                               OCEAN CITY — More details emerged this week in the manslaughter case against two local men charged for their roles in the death of a Pennsylvania man, including video that chronicles the events leading up to the alleged confrontation and allegations the charges are politically motivated in an election year.

Around 3 a.m. on Aug. 24, Ocean City Police were called to assist paramedics who discovered Justin D. Cancelliere, 37, of North Whitehall, Pa., unconscious and unresponsive in a hotel parking on 2nd Street. First responders initiated emergency lifesaving procedures on the victim and transported him to AGH where he was later pronounced deceased. An autopsy concluded the nature of Cancelliere’s injuries as head and neck trauma and the cause of death a homicide.

After an investigation, OCPD detectives determined the assault occurred during an altercation in the area of Talbot Street and Baltimore Ave. The two suspects, identified as Caleb Edwin-Earl Ochse, 27, of Ocean City, and Christopher Blake Kendall, 22, of Ocean City, have been charged with manslaughter, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and affray for their alleged roles in the confrontation.

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25 comments:

Anonymous said...

How dare this dysfunctional family of miscreants blame this on politics.
Common sense dictates that this tape which they are placing too much importance on, in an attempt to gain public sympathy, is only part of the story and the sooner they figure that out the better off they will be.
Their opinion is just that, an opinion and far from the whole story. An aunt is commenting and even her story has changed. She claims the defendants were stared at, followed, yelled obscenities at, and at one point claims they were even jumped by the victim. They can't even get their own story straight.
At this point in time, they need to really sit down and shut up. It's clear to outside observers that playing the blame game and making up excuses for this kid is what got them to this point.
The disturbing part is someone lost their life because of this family's dysfunction.

Anonymous said...

That's the price of doing business in OC, The pole dancing family town.

Anonymous said...

sounds like the defendants are the ones playing politics to me

Anonymous said...

This gets more and more bizarre by the day. They are grasping as straws. Best advice anyone can give them at this point in time is: Sit down and shut up. Their biggest difficulty now is that they've damaged the defendant and themselves to the point of no return already.

Anonymous said...

A say 10:00pm o'clock curfew is need in that place.

Anonymous said...

The tape means nothing in of itself. I personally think the defendants were the ones gunning for the victim and his friends, since Osche was the one who got the To Go container. The defendants were annoyed with the victim and his friends because they were looking at them (because they were making a scene) and when Ochse and Kendall saw they were getting ready leaving decided to leave first so they could lie in wait and jump the victim and his friends.
This is what I picture happened.

Anonymous said...

Shame on Tad Farlow for defending a known criminal.

My vote goes for Beau Oglesby!!

Anyone that is a registered Democrat has some serious mental issues. Anyone that votes for a Democrat has even more mental issues.

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Anonymous said...
That's the price of doing business in OC, The pole dancing family town.

September 4, 2014 at 10:31 AM

Leave Mike Maykrantz's wife out of this.

Anonymous said...

The lawyer would best be serving this family by schooling them in the way it is and not the way they think it is, want it to be or wish it were.
By not anyone's stretch of the imagination does staring and/or following someone make someone an aggressor.
IT IS getting clearer to see how and why Caleb ended up in this situation. There is some major dysfunction going on.

Anonymous said...

I don't have a problem with Farlow defending the accused at all....... no matter what they are accused of.
What I do have a problem with is the blame the victim game being publically played out.

Farlow should have thought long and hard.....though it shouldn't have taken much long or hard thought...... and respectfully declined to represent this defendant, and what has become something resembling a circus side show, orchestrated by a family who is, without a doubt, a study in dysfunction.

Anonymous said...

Something Caleb's family needs to realize, and come to terms with, is that the community "support" they claim they have received, is an illusion. While everyone has been sympathetic toward them in a face to face situation, it's what is being said in private that is noteworthy. Everyone without fail has said they saw this coming and his prior record speaks for itself.

Anonymous said...

11:06. My thoughts exactly.

Anonymous said...

Yeah rocket scientists, pretty much everyone who has heard about this has concluded both the victim and the everyone else involved was drunk to some extent. The victim's decade old criminal record is pretty insignificant too especially compared to Caleb's extensive criminal history. Everyone did see this coming. It's the usual progression of someone who abuses meth and other drugs and comes from a family who instead of taking a hard stance continually took the easy way out and not doing their parental duties.

Anonymous said...

11:06 has expressed what everyone thinks regardless of what they are saying to the family's face.

Anonymous said...

Enough already. It's come to the point, where the family has really worn out their welcome because all they are doing is insulting the community's intelligence.
THE TAPE MEANS NOTHING so stop trying to make a case that it does. Of course people are going to stare at someone who is making an ass out of themselves in public.
As far as the "following" that very well could have been a symptom of Caleb's paranoia (drug induced?), evidence of which can be seen by his overreaction resulting in his arrest for meth in Orlando.
I tend to put more confidence in the lying in wait theory mentioned above.

Anonymous said...

I still think they should go for the "afluenza" defense. It just so fits the defendant.

Anonymous said...

This has gotten really weird. I think if possible, his bail needs to be set really high or held without completely. The delusions are apparent as well as the complete lack of any responsibility at all.
With that in mind, he is a flight risk.

Anonymous said...

Can't be that affluent 1:38 if they can't come up money to bail him out.

Anonymous said...

If we made alcohol illegal none of this would have happened.

Anonymous said...

2:55 I hope you're joking or maybe you never heard of prohibition.

Anonymous said...

They want him released from pre trial detention. Why don't they bail him out then. I don't consider my self affluent, but I certainly could come up with $400,000 in cash, property whatever way the court wants it to bail a family member out of jail if I wanted to.
Either they aren't as affluent as they want everyone to believe or they have concerns that he will flee and not show up for court.

Anonymous said...

I'm shocked that OCPD didn't go for 2nd Degree Murder!

Anonymous said...

I did notice that the case has been forwarded to Circuit Court.
Grand jury must have convened and recommended indicting.
I personally think 1st degree murder isn't unreasonable. It appears they beat this man unmercifully until death and not just enough to stop any threat, which any reasonable person would and does see as ridiculous.
The whole family shows signs of sociopathy and psychopathy.

Anonymous said...

The family is very disturbing. No sign of any remorse, responsibility or sympathy at all.
Even if you believe (though I'm not buying for a second) that it was self defense, most people would feel some sense of sympathy for the victim and his family.
I agree with above about him fleeing. These people are so off the wall, that I think that is the reason they aren't bailing him out, because they know they are going to lose their money and maybe are planning on helping him flee.

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Anonymous said...
That's the price of doing business in OC, The pole dancing family town.

September 4, 2014 at 10:31 AM

Leave Mike Maykrantz's wife out of this.

September 4, 2014 at 11:07 AM

You're a classy person...