OCEAN CITY – One half of a Virginia couple arrested in April for motor vehicle theft of a truck allegedly stolen from a funeral home and cemetery after a license plate reader on the Route 50 bridge alerted resort police pleaded guilty to multiple counts last week and was sentenced to a combined 10 years in jail.
Around 2:15 a.m. on April 15, Ocean City Police Department (OCPD) officers patrolling in the downtown area got a ping from a license plate reader on the Route 50 bridge about a stolen Ford Ranger pickup truck entering the resort. Ocean City Communications reported the truck had been reported stolen out of Virginia.
OCPD officers observed the vehicle traveling north on Baltimore Avenue as it drove through a red traffic signal, according to police reports. OCPD officers conducted a high-risk traffic stop in the parking lot of a hotel at 15th Street and made contact with the driver, identified as Sean Martin, 35, of Winchester, Va., and his passenger, identified as Kelsi Turner, 20, of Front Royal, Va., who were both detained in handcuffs.
Martin reportedly told police he had purchased the truck a week earlier in Pennsylvania from an individual he did not know through a social media marketplace site. Martin reportedly told police he paid $500 for the truck, but the seller did not have the title and he did not have a receipt with him. Martin told officers he “should have known better” than to buy a truck from a stranger for $500. Martin also told police he did not have a valid driver’s license and that he was a convicted felon from Virginia, according to police reports.
OCPD officers interviewed Turner, who reportedly told police she had taken her father’s vehicle to pick up Martin and taken him to a farm in West Virginia so he could buy a truck. Turner advised an individual gave Martin the keys to the truck, and that she had seen Martin sign a receipt, but she had never seen the actual receipt or any title to the vehicle.
Now thats the OC judicial branch outcomes we have come to love! Been a while but it stresses don’t bring your problems to our island!
BAM!
Stupid! You have to drive over 65MPH to keep the license plate readers from doing what they are supposed to do.
Another young, healthy person succumbs to the poison covid vax. Will people ever learn that this vax is very harmful. I’m really surprised that anyone will still take it after all that has been learned about it.
The unregistered vehicle stories are fun to hear.
He should be sentenced to an additional five years just for being so stupid.
We live in a surveillance state.