Man Caught With 450 Untaxed Cigarette Cartons
Officers stopped a Chevrolet Impala at around 11:55 p.m. on northbound Route 13 for a traffic violation, said Laurel police Detective Sgt. Derrick Calloway. Upon further investigation, a search uncovered 450 cartons of assorted cigarette brands that were untaxed, Calloway said. The driver, Anwar Ghani, 47, of Elizabeth, N.J., was charged with eight counts of possession of untaxed tobacco.
Ghani told police that he had purchased the cigarettes in North Carolina and was driving back to New Jersey to sell them.
Ghani was committed to the Sussex Correctional Institution after failing to post $16,100 cash bail.
Man Charged In Sex Abuse Of Toddler
CRISFIELD — Police have arrested a Crisfield man in connection with the sexual abuse of a 14-month-old child.
Virgil Eric Dashields, 20, of 157 Somers Cove Apartments, Crisfield, was being held on $50,000 bond in the Somerset County Detention Center following his arrest Monday night, according to the Crisfield Police Department.
The sexual child abuse occurred in the Somers Cove Apartments on Friday, police said.
Dashields was arrested on numerous sex abuse, child abuse, assault and sodomy charges.
Man Brings Alleged Drugs Into Wawa
WEST OCEAN CITY — A man who walked into a convenience store with a half-burned suspected marijuana cigarette tucked behind his ear was spotted by state police and arrested on drug charges.
Tyrone Scruggs, 26, of Pocomoke City entered the Wawa on Route 50 at about 11:20 p.m. Friday with the marijuana cigarette in plain view, police said. When he was searched, police said, a baggie containing crack cocaine and powder cocaine was found in his possession. Scruggs was arrested and charged with drug and paraphernalia possession.
Gun Arrest Made During Traffic Stop
NEWARK — A state trooper who pulled over a vehicle for passing across a double-yellow line found a loaded handgun tucked underneath the driver’s side floor mat. The driver, 21-year-old William Harrison Wilson Jr. of Temperanceville didn’t have a handgun permit, police said. The gun was a .32-caliber Colt revolver and was loaded, police said. Wilson was arrested and charged with carrying a handgun in a vehicle.
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