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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 […]
A 29-year-old New Castle man is behind bars after police say he broke into an 80-year-old woman’s home and tried to sexually assault her. Davonso Davis was arrested after officers responded around 2:40 a.m. on October 11 to the unit block of Arbor Avenue in the Overview Gardens community, where they located a man matching […]
Wilmington Police are investigating a shooting Monday evening that sent a 19-year-old man to the hospital. The shooting happened around 7:47 p.m. in the 500 block of West 24th Street. The victim arrived at a local hospital with a gunshot wound and was listed in stable condition. Police say the circumstances surrounding the shooting remain […]
Smyrna Police are investigating a shooting late Saturday night that left two people injured and a parking lot littered with more than 30 shell casings. Officers responded around 11:40 p.m. on October 10 to reports of gunfire outside the End Zone Bar and Grill in the Gateway North Shopping Center. A preliminary investigation found that […]
