Pirate Poachers of the Chesapeake: Another Black Eye for Golden Eye Owner Robert Lumpkins

In 2011, Lumpkins pleaded guilty for his role in the largest striped bass poaching ring in the history of the Chesapeake Bay and was sentenced to serve 18 months in federal prison. He also was ordered to pay a fine of $36,000 and make restitution of $165,000.

Ocean City Police Beat / To heck with surf and sun; they go for electronics and credit cards during a burglary to an occupied residence

Residents of the unit awoke to find the unit in disarray and multiple personal items stolen. It was determined that over $3,500 in electronics, cash, and other miscellaneous items were stolen including one wallet.

Southern Md. Police Beat: machetes, knifes, choking and burglars keep deputies on the move

Thompson, who formerly lived on King Drive in Oakville, was charged on Sept. 12, 2014 with disturbing school operations by St. Mary’s Sheriff’s Deputy Andrew Holton, the school resource officer at Chopticon High School. In District Court for St. Mary’s County Thompson was represented by two welfare attorneys, Ryan Posey and Gerald J. Riviello in arranging a plea deal on Dec. 11, 2014. Thompson pleaded guilty and received probation before judgment with States Attorney Richard Fritz allowing the sentence of ten days in jail to be completely suspended and no fine imposed, meaning that Thompson paid no penalty for disturbing operations of the high school.

Ocean City Police Beat: Crime season at the beach opens with ATM robbery by the Austin Emerick gang from Penn.

OCEAN CITY, MD. (May 20, 2015) – Modern day bank robbers don’t need to hold up the banks when the banks take their money and leave it unguarded inside of metal boxes parked in parking lots. Just like bank robbers of old, the James Brothers, Ma Barker and her gang and Willie Sutton, the cops say the crime scene at the chief Maryland beach resort is officially open for the season with an open-air bank robbery.