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Southern Marylanders Behaved Themselves on St. Patrick's Day, Sort of …
SOUTHERN MARYLAND - 3/18/2009
By Pete Hurrey
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On a day of celebration in Southern Maryland in honor of St. Patrick’s Day and all things Irish, there were increased patrols in all three local county jurisdictions. And, for the most part, partiers behaved themselves quite well. In St. Mary’s County, sheriff’s office personal manned a DUI checkpoint from 6 to 7 p.m. in Oakville, seeing 452 cars pass through and only one driver was ticketed for driving on a suspended license. Then from 7 p.m. to 8:30, the sheriff’s deputies performed what is called a DWI saturation patrol and there were numerous traffic and moving violations, but no DUI arrests.
There were, however a few alcohol-related arrests made during the evening. One was for a disorderly intoxication in Lexington Park.
In that instance, Sheriff’s Deputies Green and Somerville responded to a complaint about a disorderly male. When the deputies arrived at the McKay’s Plaza they located Anthony Kawika Somerville, 24 of Lexington Park, who was intoxicated with another person. Anthony Somerville was carrying a closed container of beer and the other person was carrying an open container. The deputies poured out the open beer and offered to take the two individuals home. When that happened, Anthony Somerville became disorderly and spit on Deputy Green’s face and was arrested for assault and disorderly intoxication.
In another St. Mary’s incident, an alcohol-related domestic dispute ended in the arrest of Tony Jerome Armwood, 32 of Great Mills, when police responded to a domestic call on Fox Chase Dr. The plaintiff. Armwood allegedly threw a beer at the victim, kicked her in the stomach and then grabbed her face. He was arrested on second degree assault charges.
In Calvert County, sheriff’s set up a sobriety checkpoint from 6 to 8 p.m. along Plum Point Road in Huntingtown. Five people were asked to pull to the side after officers detected the odor of alcohol on their person. Of the five people pulled to the side, the highest BAC was .05, which is under the legal limit. Officers are also set up at both ends of the checkpoint to look for drivers to evade or turn around prior to the roadblocks. Three arrests for Controlled Dangerous Substances were made from vehicles evading checkpoints. No alcohol arrests were made from the Sobriety Checkpoint.
From 8 p.m. on, Calvert County Sheriff’s Deputies participated in a saturation patrol concentrating on the Prince Frederick Area, from Plum Point Road south to Main Street in Prince Frederick. No alcohol arrests were made. In Charles County, there were two arrests as a result of the St. Patrick’s Day Saturation Patrol. One of the arrests was from a DUI Checkpoint, in which 1,819 drivers passed through and the second arrest of the night was from a Saturation patrol between 8 and 9:15 p.m.
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