<figure id="attachment_5568" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-5568" style="width: 240px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><a href="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Stephenson_Carlton.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-5568" src="https://www.the-chesapeake.com//wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Stephenson_Carlton-240x300.jpg" alt="Carlton Stephenson III arrested by Ocean City Md. Police. " width="240" height="300" /></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-5568" class="wp-caption-text">Carlton Stephenson III arrested by Ocean City Md. Police.</figcaption></figure>
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<p>(<span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_2052319396"><span class="aQJ">August 21, 2014</span></span>) – On <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_2052319397"><span class="aQJ">August 21, 2014</span></span>, at approximately <span class="aBn" tabindex="0" data-term="goog_2052319398"><span class="aQJ">3:10 a.m.</span></span> <strong>Ocean City police</strong> were on marked patrol in the area of Coastal Highway and 65<sup>th</sup> Street when officers observed a vehicle traveling eastbound through a nearby parking lot and on to southbound Coastal Highway, nearly causing a collision with oncoming traffic.</p>
<p>While traveling southbound, officers observed the vehicle fail to stay in a single lane and continue southbound at a high rate of speed. Officers then activated emergency lights and siren as the vehicle failed to stop at a red light on 49<sup>th</sup> Street, turned west on to 49<sup>th</sup> Street and entered a nearby parking lot. The vehicle then exited the parking lot, traveled south on Coastal Highway and made a U-turn at 48<sup>th</sup> street all while failing to yield for right-of-way traffic.</p>
<p><strong>Stationary Traffic Safety Unit</strong> officers recorded the vehicle to be traveling at a steady speed of 98 mph in the area of 65<sup>th</sup> Street. Shortly after, the vehicle failed to control its speed and collided with a condominium building in the area of Coastal Highway and 72<sup>nd</sup> Street. The vehicle crashed into and destroyed electrical meters and an electrical box causing electrical fluid to saturate northbound Coastal Highway.</p>
<p>The collision caused northbound traffic to be rerouted to a single southbound lane for more than four hours as Ocean City Public Works and electrical crews worked to clean up the fluid spill and restore power to the building.</p>
<p>The driver, <strong>Carlton M. Stephenson III</strong>, 21, of Jessup, MD, was arrested on scene with no injuries. Ocean City police have <em><strong>charged Stephenson with driving under the influence</strong> </em>and a multitude of traffic violations. He is currently being held at the Ocean City Public Safety Building awaiting an initial appearance before a Maryland District Court Commissioner.</p>
<h3>Stephenson&#8217;s lead foot cost him a pretty penny one night in Talbot County</h3>
<p>On July 18, 2012, Stephenson was found guilty of doing 85 mph in a 55 mph zone and fined $290. The incident took place on Rt. 50 eastbound at Skipton Landing Road while he was piloting a 2008 Yamaha. He had been stopped and ticketed by Talbot County Md. Sheriff’s Deputy Robert Mitchell on May 29, 2012 at 1:35 am.</p>
<p>Money seized as contraband at the time of the arrest was ordered returned on Oct. 17, 2012.</p>
<p>Evidently, the first ticket on the night of May 29<sup>th</sup> didn’t slow Stephenson down too much as at 1:51 am he showed that he had a lead foot once again in the Town of Easton where Officer Howard Maxwell stopped him and awarded him a ticket at the location of Rt. 50 eastbound at Lomax Street for driving his vehicle at 77 mph in a 35 mph zone, which is about double the speed limit. He was found guilty on July 23, 2012 and fined $497 which would have paid for a night in a top beachfront hotel. Stephenson was also fined $70 for having expired tags on his vehicle.</p>
<p>In Baltimore City District Court, Stephenson received a probation before judgment for possession of drugs on May 23, 2012.</p>
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