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<h3 class="wp-block-heading">Southern Md. Police Beat: Samantha &; Wayne Somerville maced victim in a robbery in Millison Plaza, say police; tracked by <g class="gr_ gr_6 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar only-ins doubleReplace replaceWithoutSep" id="6" data-gr-id="6">witness</g> to restroom lair</h3>



<p>LEXINGTON PARK, MD. – A shopper leaving a store in Millison
Plaza was the victim of an armed robbery on February 20, 2019, at approximately
11:40 a.m. </p>



<p>St. Mary’s Sheriff Tim Cameron reports that a pair of
robbers, husband and wife, attacked a woman shopper as she left a store and tried
to take her purse. The victim resisted and refused to let the female robber have
the purse resulting in the aggressive robber allegedly spraying the victim with
mace. At that point, police say that the robbers grabbed the woman’s purse and
fled. Police did not report on any injuries the robbery victim might have
suffered. </p>



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<p>The pair were followed by a witness who pursued the
criminals on their path to a nearby restaurant. Police were contacted by the
witness and arrived to the location of the robbers, cornering them in the restroom.
</p>



<p>Samantha Ann Somerville, 30, reportedly asked the victim a
question, and then attempted to take the victim’s purse. ; Police say that Wayne Darnell Somerville Jr.,
31, of 29535 Hills Drive, Mechanicsville, Md., joined in the attack and the pair
fled on foot. </p>



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<p>Corporals Vincent Pontorno and Timothy Snyder conducted a
check of the business, locating Samantha and Wayne Somerville in the
restroom. ; The deputies search of the
restroom revealed clothing discarded in the trash consistent with both the
victim and witness’ description of what the suspect was wearing during the
robbery, as well as the victim’s wallet hidden in the back of the toilet. </p>



<p>Not to be outdone by his wife, and apparently not trusting
her with the newly stolen credit card of the victim, Wayne Somerville took
control of their newfound plastic for future thievery and had it stuffed in his
jacket, say police. </p>



<p>Mace was located in Samantha Somerville’s backpack and Wayne
Somerville was also found to have a can of Mace. ; Both suspects were arrested and charged with
the following:</p>



<ul class="wp-block-list"><li>Armed Robbery</li><li>Robbery</li><li>Assault Second Degree</li><li>Theft</li><li>Malicious Destruction of Property </li></ul>



<p>Samantha and Wayne Somerville were held without bond at the
St. Mary’s County Jail n Leonardtown, Md. Both have been deemed eligible for
free attorneys provided by the taxpayers, a courtesy for criminals engineered
by the liberal legislators of the free-wheeling Maryland General Assembly. </p>



<p>Wayne Somerville was already set for a hearing in St. Mary’s
District Court on March 29, 2019, on charges of trespassing, malicious
destruction of property and theft.  ;Felony theft charges filed by Deputy Edward
Vogt from an event on Dec. 13, 2018, are pending in District Court on March 22,
2019. </p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Hobos-Hookers-Patrol-1024x768.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-6162"/><figcaption>St. Mary&#8217;s Sheriff Tim Cameron and his Hobos &; Hookers Patrol. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY photo</figcaption></figure></div>



<p>An arrest on Dec. 10, 2018, by Charles County Sheriff
Officer A. Bringley for damaging and tampering with a vehicle has a court
hearing in La Plata set for March 13, 2019 for Wayne Somerville. . Additional
charges are pending in Charles County Circuit Court for Wayne Somerville. </p>



<p>Could Samantha Somerville allegedly participated in the
robbery of the woman shopping in Lexington Park in order to pay her child
support or simply to pay for her time in a nail salon?</p>



<div class="wp-block-image"><figure class="aligncenter"><img src="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Cameron-with-Hall-and-deputy-in-Hobo-camp.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-5102"/><figcaption>St. Mary&#8217;s County Md. Sheriff Tim Cameron with Capt. Steve Hall and deputy in Hobo camp next to the Lexington Park library. Sheriff Cameron ordered the hobo camp cleared. THE CHESAPEAKE TODAY photo</figcaption></figure></div>



<p>The Department of Social Services has filed for child
support from Samantha Ann Somerville and Gary Ignatius Branson. Samantha
Somerville displays numerous photos of her and her child on her Facebook page
but other than posting photos of her child fails to provide support. ; A couple who reside in Avenue, Md., filed on Jan.
17, 2019 for custody of a child with Samantha Somerville and Gary Branson, a
resident of the St. Mary’s Jail, named as defendants. Gary Ignatius Branson
entered a guilty plea to felony second-degree rape on Sept. 24, 2007 and was
sentenced to six years in prison. On July 28, 2016 he was found guilty of failing
to register as a sex offender.</p>



<p>Theft charges against Samantha Somerville brought by Charles
County Sheriff Officer Corey Caywood resulted in a plea deal in Charles County District
Court where Charles County States Attorney Anthony Covington put the charges on
the Stet Docket on Dec. 11, 2018. </p>



<figure class="wp-block-image"><img src="http://www.the-chesapeake.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Dep-Timothy-Snyder-in-Lex-Park.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-3900"/><figcaption>Dep. Timothy Snyder in Lexington Park, Md. hobos and hookers patrol. </figcaption></figure>



<p>A theft charge placed against Samantha Sommerville during an
arrest by Maryland State Trooper Posch on Aug. 19, 2017 resulted in a plea deal
on Oct. 31, 2017, with States Attorney Fritz and a free attorney paid for by
taxpayers, Rais Jaleel Akbar. THE DEAL: a verdict of Probation Before Judgement
and 10 days in jail with 10 days suspended. </p>



<p>Both Samantha and Wayne Somerville have extensive families
in St. Mary’s County even though the police reported that the two accused robbers
are “homeless”, it may be that their families are simply worn out by their
noxious activities and refuse to provide them access to their homes any longer.
</p>



<p>Aggressive criminals and panhandlers, along with armed robbers
like Anthony Barnes who allegedly held up the Donut Connection in the same shopping
center a week earlier, as this new armed robbery, plague businesses in Lexington
Park in spite of a designated squad of COPS deployed for the last several years
by Sheriff Cameron. ; </p>



<p>The owner of the Millison Plaza and other commercial
properties issue no trespass notices to local panhandlers and petty thieves who
comprise a large percentage of the career homeless and criminal bums in Lexington
Park. </p>



<p>Police respond to calls for the bums urinating in public, using
drugs and discarding needles on sidewalks, committing purse snatchings and
theft from vehicles, and cart them off to jail. There, District Court
commissioners release them on their own recognizance. They walk out to the
nearby bus stop and get a free bus ride back to Lexington Park to renew their
daily cycle. The homeless shelter has rules that prohibit drugs and alcohol
which are spurned by the bums who set up camps in various locations around
Lexington Park. ; The shelter herds the
overnight residents back onto the street in the daytime, leaving them to set
upon the unsuspecting patrons of businesses as easy targets. The taxpayers
provide for the bus, the police, the prosecutors, the judges, the welfare, the
drug treatment, the public defenders, the jail, the homeless shelter and food
stamps. The criminal class pays for nothing. What they steal from their
families and strangers is used to mainly pay for their drugs and alcohol until they
overdose and die. </p>



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