(Harford County, MD: December 9, 2009) The Harford County Joint Investigative Task Force consisting of members from the Maryland State Police Bel Air Barracks and the Harford County Sheriff’s Office arrested William Preston Grace Jr., age 22, of Port Deposit, MD in connection with several armed robberies and thefts that occurred in Harford County between December 7 and December 9, 2009. Harford County locations related to Grace’s arrest include Fallston 7-11 Convenience Store, Redner’s Warehouse Market, The Dublin Market, Bel Air 7-11 Convenience Store, Sunoco in Rock Springs, Halsey’s Market and Saubel’s Market in Pylesville, MD.
Due to the frequency and similarity of the series of robberies, on December 9, 2009 deputies and troopers saturated the northern end of Harford County searching for the primary suspect who had been identified through investigation as William Preston Grace Jr. As the search developed, it was determined that Grace ...Continue Reading
After his debut last week, Ilya the Floridian manatee seems to have taken a liking to the Susquehanna River and has recently made appearances on the shores of both Cecil and Harford County.
A Perryville Town Commissioner snapped photos of the wayward sea cow last Wednesday and a group of Havre de Gracians greeted the manatee with cameras and open arms Sunday afternoon when it surfaced near some condominiums.
Officials from the National Aquarium in Baltimore continue to monitor the manatee’s movements and urge people to take precautions to keep themselves and Ilya safe.
Photos courtesy of Chris Brzys, John Cole, and Gary Tennis.
The National Aquarium has confirmed another sighting of manatee “Ilya”, reported yesterday in Perryville by Town Commissioner Gary Tennis. The animals appears to be moving freely between the top of the Bay and the Susquehanna River.
Attached are pictures taken by Commissioner Tennis, along with a map.
Havre de Grace – State Troopers arrested a Cecil County man Thursday on robbery charges after a DNA sample recovered at the scene linked him this week to the holdup in December.
Sha-Quan Adrian Triplett, 19, of 26 Race Street, Port Deposit, MD., was arrested at his home without incident on a warrant obtained by TFC. D. Wenger, a criminal investigator assigned to the Bel Air Barrack “D.” Triplett was charged with armed robbery, weapons violations, reckless endangerment, theft over $500, and first-degree assault. He was being held at the Harford County Detention Center pending an appearance before a District Court Commissioner.
Triplett and another individual are accused of robbing the Cork & Barrel Liquor Store, 1830 (A) Pulaski Highway, near Havre de Grace, MD. on December 13, 2008. During the robbery, Triplett and his accomplice pointed firearms at two clerks and demanded cash from the registers and safe. The ...Continue Reading
The Cecil Land Use Alliance Board has set the next CLUA meeting for Wednesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. at the Port Deposit VFW.
The VFW is located at 520 Susquehanna River Road (MD 222) about a
mile north of downtown Port Deposit. There is ample parking. The
entrance to the meeting room is on the side of the building with the
parking lot, towards the back.
A main topic of discussion will be the proposed Granite Cliffs
subdivision, a 700-home Planned Unit Development with its own water
and sewer service, to be located on the hill above the town of Port
Deposit. We hope to have many residents of Port Deposit at the
meeting and hear their views. The Granite Cliffs developer has
requested a special exception to the current zoning (Suburban
Residential) to allow the PUD. That request will be considered by
the Board of Appeals at its meeting on April 28. The ...Continue Reading
I know that sounds far-fetched (I mean, previously, the best thing that ever happened to Port Deposit was getting mentioned on four separate instances by Ripley’s “Believe it Or Not”), but when ABC’s popular Extreme Makeover: Home Edition television show rolls into town it’s hard to get things wrong.
But they nearly did this time.
In mid-October the cast and crew of the show, which takes disadvantaged, underprivileged and otherwise down-on-their-luck families and heaps upon them a new mansion filled with untold riches, rolled into Cecil County to visit Freedom Hills Therapeutic Riding Program.
For a quarter-century the Luther family has operated its non-profit program, which offers horseback rides as a type of therapy for people with physical and developmental problems. Things took a turn for the worse about a half-year ago when family patriarch, Carl Luther, died leaving the rest of the family ...Continue Reading
