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ANNAPOLIS, MD. – One member of Gov.-Elect Larry Hogan’s new cabinet members has been there before, in fact, more than one. But Homeland Security designee Thomas E. “Tim” Hutchins is the only one who has served both as a Cabinet member and while in that post, pulling a suspected DUI driver off a Maryland highway.
DOVER, DEL. — The Dover Police Department reports that officers responded to 15 shoplifting calls between January 1st and Noon on January 8th. Of those 15 shoplifting complaints, one was unfounded, seven are still under investigation, and arrests were made/warrants obtained in 7 cases. A total of 6 adults were arrested or are wanted for shoplifting during this period. Two juveniles were also arrested/had warrants obtained during this period.
Robbed More Than a Dozen Convenience Stores, Gas Stations, and Restaurants in Five Months, Including Three 7-Elevens in Just Two Hours
GREENBELT, MD—U.S. District Judge Paul W. Grimm sentenced Anthony Akrah Morris, age 25, of Burtonsville, Maryland, on Jan. 12, 2015 to 505 months in prison followed by five years of supervised release for conspiring to commit robbery, two counts of robbery and two counts of brandishing a firearm during a robbery. Judge Grimm also ordered Morris to pay restitution of $3,375.
The State of Maryland has highlighted the actions of Maryland State Police and Natural Resources police using satellite technology, helicopters and watercraft as officers issued citations for poaching, undersize catches, and raids by pirate watermen on oyster sanctuaries. Two men who were subjects of arrests and issuing of citations are featured here along with results of when they appeared in court. They are brothers, Benjamin Leonard Reihl and Adam Vincent Reihl.
Benjamin Leonard Reihl
Chestertown, Md. — Benjamin Leonard Reihl was charged by Maryland Natural Resources Police Officer Rogowski with three counts of possession of undersized oysters on March 21, 2014 and in Talbot County District Court on June 19, 2014 was found guilty and fined $277.50 plus court costs of $22.50.
As Reihl appears to find Maryland rules for watermen and motor vehicle laws inconvenient to him, this PIRATE KING BOX SCORE is provided for our readers as well as for Reihl and his younger brother Adam.
Court records reflect Reihl using the Maryland Public Defender system on one occasion and only once hiring a private attorney; thus the money he saves on lawyers is used on paying fines. But court records reflect that on nearly a half dozen occasions he has been granted a deferred payment status by the courts, meaning that he was able to negotiate plea deals with prosecutors without the help of attorneys and then was able to have his payment deferred.
CRISFIELD, MD. – Natural Resources Police report that the piracy and poaching of oyster sanctuaries in the Chesapeake Bay by the persons most likely to see a direct benefit of the effort to perpetrate oyster harvesting in the future continues.
Police say that two Crisfield watermen were charged Monday by the Maryland Natural Resources Police with illegally harvesting oysters from protected waters.
Using the Maritime Law Enforcement Information Network system of cameras and radar, two officers monitored Paul Franklin Tyler III, 29, and Jeffrey Alan Cuff Jr., 31, at 10 a.m. as they dredged for wild oysters in the buffer zone surrounding the Somerset Oyster Sanctuary near Tangier Sound.
St. Mary’s County Sheriff’s Deputies Collar DUI Drivers
Man wanted for rape in Delaware found dead in Virginia motel room after stand-off with fugitive squad
NEWPORT NEWS, VA. — All’s well that ends well, is commonly heard when a trial is unneeded due to the final decision of a suspect to end his life. A fugitive task force was tracking down accused rapist and car thief Jawan T. Colson, 30, of Lincoln, Delaware on Jan. 7th and had pinpointed his location to a motel room in Newport News. When he barricaded himself in a motel room, the squad finally entered and found he had hung himself.
ANNAPOLIS, MD. – Who is moving big amounts of dope around Annapolis, selling at the mall, meeting the parking lots of the shopping centers in broad daylight with customers arranged over cell phone calls and through text messages? Somebody has to do it to keep all the pot heads happy.
Annapolis Police report that one of their officers put a small dent in the business of one suspected drug dealer.
Poaching Violations for 13 bushels of oysters nets two watermen $527.00 fine each – Christopher Shannon Lewis, 42, of 14388 Cedar Lane, Greensboro, Md., and Henry Paul Saia, 18, of the same address in Greensboro, appeared in Queen Anne’s District Court on Jan. 7. Lewis was fined $527.50 in a plea deal with Queen Anne’s County States Attorney Lance Richardson. Richardson put seven other charges on the Stet Docket. Saia was fined the same amount. The approximate wholesale price that seafood dealers would have paid Lewis at the time he was cited was about $40 per bushel, which is about the same amount of the fine for each man. The plea deal did not involve any jail time.
Richard T. Stewart charged with killing motorcyclist Justin Felch
DUMFRIES, VA. Prince William County Police report that a Germantown, Md., man has been arrested on charges in connection for his killing a Woodbridge man in a crash in December.
On January 6th, the driver of the 2013 Chevrolet Silverado involved in the fatal crash which occurred in the area of Jefferson Davis Hwy and Chesapeake Dr. in Dumfries on December 2nd was charged in connection to the collision.