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Dallas Drummond, 47, of Dover has pleaded guilty to kidnapping and assaulting a woman he held captive in a Smyrna apartment — a case that ended when the victim fought back and escaped through a window. According to the Department of Justice, Drummond assaulted the woman on June 24, 2025 and held her captive inside […]
Delaware leaders, educators, and community advocates gathered at Delaware State University in Dover on Tuesday for the second annual Community Violence Intervention Summit — just days after a deadly shooting in Dover over the weekend. The summit, organized by End Community Violence Now and Delaware State University, featured speakers and discussions on collaborative violence prevention, […]
William Conard, 37, of Harrington will spend 30 years behind bars after being sentenced in two separate child sexual abuse cases, the Delaware Department of Justice announced. Prosecutors say Conard raped a child over the course of several years until his arrest in October 2025. The investigation later uncovered a second victim, now an adult, […]
New Castle County Police have arrested a 29-year-old Wilmington man after a drug investigation that began in July. Detectives with the department’s Drug and Human Trafficking Investigations Team executed two search warrants on Sunday, October 11. The first, in the 500 block of West 7th Street in New Castle, is where D’Andre Murphy was located […]
A New Castle County grand jury has indicted 30-year-old Nicholas Resto on three counts of second-degree murder in connection with a March crash in Wilmington that killed three people. Senior Corporal Keith Johnson of the Wilmington Police Department presented the case to the grand jury on Monday, October 12. In addition to the murder counts, […]
Delaware State Police have identified the bicyclist killed in an October 6 collision on Sussex Highway near Laurel as 69-year-old Lawrence Schreiber of Laurel. Investigators say a Van Hool charter bus was traveling southbound on US-13 in the left lane near Gordy Road around 4:20 p.m. when Schreiber, riding in the southbound shoulder, crossed the […]
Milford Police are investigating a fatal single-vehicle crash that killed a 78-year-old man Tuesday morning on South DuPont Boulevard. Around 9:55 a.m. on October 13, a 2011 Cadillac SRX SUV traveling southbound on Route 113, just south of Old Shawnee Road, crossed the median and entered the northbound lanes for reasons still unknown. The SUV […]
Delaware State Police arrested a 13-year-old Dover boy after a BB gun was found in his backpack at a Camden middle school last week. On October 7, the School Resource Officer at F. Niel Postlethwait Middle School on South State Street responded after school staff found the BB gun during a safety search. Staff had […]
A 45-year-old Townsend man was arrested last week on his fifth DUI charge — and released on an unsecured bond. John Dillmore was stopped by Delaware State Police on October 7 around 11 a.m. on Route 1 near Fast Landing Road in Dover after a trooper saw his Ford F-150 make an illegal turn onto […]
Delaware State Police have identified the man killed in a Friday afternoon crash on Philadelphia Pike as 69-year-old Ronald Rogers of Wilmington. The crash happened October 9 around 1:30 p.m. on northbound Philadelphia Pike, north of East Holly Oak Road. Rogers was operating an electric wheelchair on the sidewalk when he entered the northbound roadway […]
Wilmington Police are investigating a shooting that left a 30-year-old man injured. It happened around 6:25 p.m. in the 100 block of South Franklin Street. The victim arrived at an area hospital with a gunshot wound and was listed in stable condition. No suspect information has been released. Anyone with information is asked to contact […]
Dover Police are investigating a Saturday night shooting in a Dover shopping center parking lot that left one man dead and another injured. The shooting happened in the Dover Commons shopping center parking lot in the 1200 block of North DuPont Highway. Delaware State University homecoming crowds had wrapped up around 6:00 p.m., and more […]
