CRIME & SAFETY
What are Delaware's 5 safest cities?
Many may have their idea of the safest city in Delaware. But here is a list of the First State's safest, taking into account property and violent crime, according to one survey. Safewise, a company that looks at safety trends nationwide, ranked five Delaware cities as the safest out of...
Two charged with trafficking methamphetamine
JEFFERSON — Ashe County Sheriff B. Phil Howell announces the arrest of 55-year-old Everett Dee Sawyer of New Castle, Delaware, and 27-year-old Mason Malik Hamilton of North Wilkesboro. On April 18, Deputy Cody Dancy performed a routine traffic stop on a vehicle. The driver of the vehicle was identified as Everette Sawyer, who did not have a valid NC driver’s license. The passenger of the vehicle was identified as Mason Hamilton. ...
Three Delaware arrests linked to greater Hartford burglaries
WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. (WTNH) — Three suspects involved in a series of overnight commercial burglaries in the greater Hartford area have been apprehended in Delaware. Nicholas Provencher, 44, Ashley Mercey, 33, and Matthew West, 46, were arrested by the New Castle County Delaware Sheriff’s Office on April 25 following a police chase that started in […]
Oxford School Shooter Transferred to Oaks Correctional to Begin Life Sentence
The convict behind the Oxford High School massacre has been relocated to a state prison in Michigan to serve his life sentence. Ethan Crumbley, now 18, was sentenced last December to life without parole following a 2021 school shooting that left four students dead and several others wounded, as ClickOnDetroit reported.
Court docs: UD student admitted selling drugs out of on-campus apartment
A University of Delaware student is facing multiple charges after police found a cache of drugs in his on-campus apartment, authorities said. The Newark Police Department Street Crimes Unit was investigating drug sales in Newark, and the investigation led officers to Michael Glass, a 20-year-old UD undergraduate from Haworth, N.J., according to court documents. Glass lives in the University Courtyard Apartments, located at the corner of Delaware Avenue and South...
$10K In 10 Minutes: Thieves Steal Thousands In Merchandise From Chesco CVS
Two women walked into the 857 W. Baltimore Pike CVS in West Grove around 6 p.m., investigators said. They took about $10,000 in "high-end cosmetics and skincare products," according to troopers. A third woman may have been an accomplice but "did not appear to steal anything on surveillance," authorities said.
One dead, two injured, in three separate motorcycle crashes
There were three serious accidents reported in a three and a half hour stretch on Sunday, April 28, 2024, involving motorcycles, including a fatal one in Middletown. Delaware State Police said a motorcycle traveling at a high rate of speed slammed into the back of a pick up truck which was stopped for a light on Warwick Road at the ramp for Route 301 just before 2:30 p.m.
Police searching for car, suspects involved in a shooting that left a 17-year-old critical in Del.
Police in New Castle County are searching for the suspects involved in a shooting where a 17-year-old was injured Saturday afternoon in Delaware. Police were called to Alvil Road in Vilone Village, Elsmere, at around 1:40 p.m. on Saturday in response to a shooting. When officers arrived, they found the...
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