A potentially dangerous situation early Thursday morning was averted when resort police broke up a large crowd downtown, making three arrests on weapons and other charges.
Around 12:20 a.m. June 10, Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officers on bike patrol in the area of 7th Street and Philadelphia Avenue observed a large, disorderly crowd of around 20-30 people gathered in the roadway. OCPD officers reportedly observed an argument between several people in the crowd and another group near a vehicle parked in the travel portion of the roadway.
OCPD officers began to disperse the crowd and approached the vehicle to investigate the incident. When the officers approached the vehicle, they observed the rear passenger, later identified as Lazarius Smith, 19, of Baltimore, loading a magazine into a semi-automatic handgun. Smith was removed from the vehicle and detained without incident, according to police reports.
As OCPD officers were in the process of disarming Smith, another suspect, identified as Jacob Anderson, 19, of Manchester, Pa., approached them and attempted to interfere with the arrest. Anderson became disorderly and hostile toward the officers on the scene, according to police reports. Anderson was placed under arrest without further incident.
The driver of the vehicle, identified as Cherish Glenn, 18, of Westminster, Md., complied with the officers’ orders to exit the vehicle. During a search of the vehicle, OCPD officers located two polymer handguns and two fully-loaded extended magazines.
Ive gots to get down to 65th HQ and give them my June Bug Spray recipe. Im positive it will assist!
Tough times indeed. Keep on keepin on LEOs! We do know you are keepin us safe!
June Bugs & Snot Bugs !!!!
Looks like OC has balls to hold the bad Boyz. Good job OCPD. Nip it before it is out of control like previous years.
Well done OCPD. As a resident I greatly appreciate your proactive efforts to keep our community safe.
Well done? Are you nuts? These kids got caught “smoking” not destroying public property of inflicting injury. Smoking WHAT? Our president’s son does worse than this and gets to ride on AF1!
I would love to hear how you determine “well done?”.
Number one, they are not kids or you would not be seeing them or their name. Weapons charges, interfering, and the list goes on. The question is, what’s in your pipe?
If the June Bugs are showing up with loaded guns and knives? Are there any protections in place for bus drivers? I was thinking of returning but this activity makes me nervous.
I would think that parents of teenage kids have concerns as well. Is this issue being studied by a Working Group or a Committee?
sure is but its getting tabled right now because there are other things that need attention
sure is but its getting tabled right now because there are other things that need attention Junebugs wont be back till next year