REHOBOTH POLICE ASSIST DEA WITH ARRESTS

It was reminiscent of last summer's drug busts where DEA agents and Rehoboth Beach police worked together to abolish several drug distribution rings.Around 4 p.m. Friday, DEA agents conducted surveillance just outside of Rehoboth's city limits in the Washington Heights area.  A couple Rehoboth Beach police officers sat in marked vehicles blocks away waiting to assist.
After a transaction by the suspects, the DEA requested one of the marked patrol cars to follow the suspects and attempt to establish "probable cause" and use that to pull over the gray Nissan Maxima.
The plan then was to call for a drug dog from the state police to search the Maxima once it had been stopped.
A Rehoboth patrol officer started tailing the suspects around 4:45 p.m., but when the officer attempted to do a traffic stop, the driver tried to flee.  Within a few seconds, the men abandoned the Maxima and police chased them on foot through West Rehoboth.  The suspects, including at least one juvenile, were captured within minutes and were initially taken to the Rehoboth Beach police station for processing.

B&Bs TARGET OF ATTEMPT SCAM IN REHOBOTH
Rehoboth Beach police received two calls Friday from bed & breakfasts reporting a suspected fraud case.  Around 7 p.m., both of the bed & breakfasts said they received calls from somebody claiming to be in Canada.
The caller named a Rehoboth Beach bed & breakfast innkeeper and said the innkeeper had been robbed while visiting Canada, and needed monetary assistance.  The caller apparently sought a credit card number from the fellow B&B innkeepers, suggesting it would be used to help the innkeeper who was mugged.
The innkeeper, who the caller claimed was robbed in Canada, had never left Rehoboth Beach!   This scam or a similar one has reportedly been attempted during the past couple years in Rehoboth Beach.

SUSPECTED SERIAL EXHIBITIONIST STRIKES O. C. AGAIN
The man who has been exposing himself to women in north Ocean City may have struck again early Saturday.  Police received a call around 12:40 a.m. from women in the 13300 block of Constitutional Avenue in the Montego Bay area.  Police immediately checked the address of a possible suspect, but reported no specifics over the radio.  The suspect is described as being in his mid-20's, about 5-foot-11, 170 pounds with short brown shaggy hair.

RESTAURANT ACCUSED OF SEXUAL INNUENDO GETS FREE EXPOSURE
People who did not already realize that the Lamp Post Restaurant had been replaced this season by another restaurant might finally take notice.  Crabby Dick's, a seafood-oriented restaurant that has its original location in downtown Baltimore, opened this season on Route 1 north of Route 24, between Lewes and Rehoboth Beach.
The DiBonaventure's Provincial Bakery accuses the restaurant of "lewd and tasteless sexual innuendoes" in a full-page editorial on page 27 of Friday's Cape Gazette.   The Cape Gazette also ran a story on the controversy and several letters to the editor.
Check out these links from the Cape Gazette and Crabby Dick's Websites and be your own judge:
http://www.capegazette.com/photos/228072304.jpg
http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/0704/crabbydick072304.html
http://www.crabby-dicks.com/story.htm
http://www.crabby-dicks.com/tour.htm
http://www.crabby-dicks.com/

INTOXICATED OFFICER GETS FREE RIDE IN O.C. POLICE CAR
An Ocean City police officer, on what he described as a "pedestrian stop," sought permission from his supervisor Sunday to provide a ride for an intoxicated off-duty officer.  Around 12:30 a.m. Sunday the Ocean City officer radioed his supervisor and told him he had an intoxicated police officer from Pennsylvania and wanted to know if it would be ok to give him a ride to 65th Street.  The response was "absolutely."

NO ONE MISSING IN CONFUSING SEARCH FOR MISSING SWIMMERS
Multiple agencies searched Friday for persons possibly missing in the water at the Indian River Inlet.  The call for help came in around 10: 40 p.m. and brought DNREC park rangers, the state police helicopter, Coast Guard and Rehoboth Beach fire department to the inlet.
For about 40 minutes rescuers tried to sort out what had happened. Although the agencies can each communicate with each other over the state's radio system, they did not, and most of the coordination ended up being done face to face.  The exceptions were the dispatchers, who relayed messages among the various agencies, and the state police
helicopter which relayed messages between the Coast Guard on the marine band and the fire apparatus on the state's radio system.
Two to five people had supposedly attempted to swim across the inlet.
They were hopefully picked up by a passing boat and were not missing as first feared by the initial caller.

O.C. MEDEVAC FLIGHTS UNAVAILABLE BECAUSE OF WEATHER
Twice this weekend medevac helicopters were unable to reach trauma victims in Ocean City because of bad weather and were forced to abort.
The first request was for a bicyclist who was struck by a city bus on 12th Street around 8:40 p.m Saturday.  The other medevac request was at 1:10 a.m. Sunday for a person who fell down steps and suffered a possible head injury at 109 Atlantic Avenue.  Both patients were taken to P.R.M.C. in Salisbury with what hopefully sounded like non-life threatening injuries.

MAN FALLS BETWEEN DOCK AND BOAT, FLOWN TO BEEBE
A man fell from a boat and landed between it and the dock Friday at Harpoon Hanna's on Lighthouse Road in Fenwick Island.  The 34-year-old man was briefly pinned and suffered crushing injuries (mostly bruising) to his lower ribcage.  An Ocean City paramedic loaded him on the Delaware State Police helicopter for a flight to Beebe after the 6:25 p.m. accident.  DNREC is investigating.

TURKISH SHIP WILL BE ALLOWED TO PROCEED TO PHILLY
Coast Guard inspectors onboard a ship waiting clearance to proceed to the Port of Philadelphia received a bomb threat from the ship's captain around 10 a.m. Thursday.  The motor vessel Cenk Kaptanoglu, a Turkish-flagged 611-foot cargo ship, was forced to anchor in the Delaware Bay while the Coast Guard, ATF, FBI and Delaware State Police further investigated the ship, cargo and its crew.
After a full sweep, no bomb was found onboard the vessel.  The captain was arraigned in federal court in Delaware for making a false statement and communicating a threat to commerce.  The motor vessel Cenk Kaptanoglu has been cleared for entry into the Port of Philadelphia.  It is scheduled to remain at anchor in the Delaware Bay until early Tuesday.  More than a dozen American inspectors are on the ship and will remain onboard until it is safely moored.
According to the Cascade General Website, the ship had been involved in a mishap with a dock in Washington State.  While transiting the Columbia River the ship lost power and smashed into a dock in Kalama, Washington.  The impact caused major damage to the bow and left the ship wedged solidly into the dock:
http://www.casgen.com/pr/pr990008.htm

MAN ROBS OAK ORCHARD CONVENIENCE STORE
A man held up the Shore Stop at Routes 24 and 5 around 1:30 a.m. Sunday armed with an old-model handgun.  The cashier called from a ditch behind the store where she used a cell phone to summon police.
The suspect was about 5-foot-8 with facial acne.  He had brown hair with a buzz cut.   He wore a blue bandanna around his head, a blue/tan jersey with the number "80" on it, and blue jean shorts.

O.C. 7-ELEVEN ROBBED
The 94th Street 7-Eleven was robbed Sunday around 11:45 p.m. by a man armed with a semiautomatic handgun.  He fled on foot, and wore khaki shorts.  Police stopped a possible suspect at 12:10 a.m. (today) on 139th Street.

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