Police say two Pocomoke shootings are linked

POCOMOKE CITY — Police are hunting for a suspect they believe is responsible for two shootings this week.

On Monday, a 20-year-old man was shot in the calf near the intersection of Bonneville Avenue and Second Street just after 9 p.m.

The victim was transported to Peninsula Regional Medical Center in Salisbury for treatment of non-life threatening injuries. The man would not give any information to police about the shooter.

In a similar incident Wednesday morning, a 25-year-old man was shot in the ankle near Sixth and Bank streets. The man was treated and released from Atlantic General Hospital in Berlin.

Pocomoke City Police officials believe that events are related, and that one person is responsible for both shootings.

“It appears to be something that may have been borne out of a fight that happened somewhere outside of Pocomoke,” said Pocomoke City Mayor Michael McDermott who added that the shootings do not seem to be random incidents. “It seems that there is some type of retaliation involved.”

The man shot Wednesday night appeared to be the intended target in both shootings, he added, meaning Monday's victim was an accidental target.

“One individual was there at both events, and was struck the second time,” McDermott said. “The police are telling me they believe he was the target both times.”

The police have identified a suspect they think is responsible for both shootings and are working with the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation tofind him. Anyone with information is asked to call 410-957-1600.

jhopkinson@dmg.gannett.com

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Recap; 3view search project

I figured I'd put this back to the top for discussion as requested.

Some recent discussion and search on my part shows 3view as a legit organization. I was offered a 1 on 1 interview with 3view but I declined on conformation of their legitimacy.

If the readers would like I will gladly accept that interview for more information but I see no need. 3view does need the go-ahead request from the LE.

Lets focus on getting 3view that permission.

Discuss;

From 9/1/09

Sean Henady, speaking exclusively to blinkonrime this afternoon:

Our asisstance has been requested in the efforts to locate Christine Sheddy. Our analysts have begun some preliminary mapping and review of the case.

Their have been prior searches launched by the investigative efforts of the Worcester County Bureau of Investigation; so we are hopful to asisst in the great work they have already put forward as required.

It is the policy of 3View that we do not discuss search dates, specific locations, technology assets, or team deployments outside of Law Enforcement.

Sean Henady, Co-Founder 3 View Search Services

A comment worthy of a post.

From an anonymous poster;

I think it is about time that the citizens of Pocomoke and surrounding area take a stand to protect your wonderful fire fighters and law enforcement! I have never heard any complaints in my life about either unless it happened in their personal lives and that is seldom, very seldom, to none!

And while you are at it, take another look at Pocomoke itself. Don't you think it's about time you took a stand for the Mayor? That may be hard to understand but he is under attack in this situation too. The agenda that started out to find thugs that possibly murdered a girl has turned into a witch hunt for everyone in Pocomoke.

The mother of the missing girl and Billy Burke have not gotten the answers they want when they want them, it seems. In order to prove some point this so called investigator has been called in to investigate. She and her goons are not investigators!!!

My thoughts? I think law enforcement has finished their investigation and under the circumstances are not talking. Can't say I blame them.

Wake up Pocomoke. Do something. Don't let this smear the town. Don't let the rest of America think that your town is being driven by hoodlums in a fire department, cops that rule where ever they please and a city hall that spirts venom to its citizens.

If so much is wrong it would have been repaired long ago
not just because one person said so.

Let your fire dept. know, let city hall know, and let law enforcement know that you stand behind them and refuse to believe what blink says. The names of people you all know and love are posted on their website. Go there and read it for yourself.

Christine Sheddy; The Fires of Byrd Rd. who set these fires and why? Were these fires Investigated for arson?

Pocomoke City, MD– Christine Sheddy was murdered on the Byrd Rd Farm in Pocomoke City on the evening of November 12, 2007.

The series of events that led up to her murder are stupifying.

Of Particular concern is the rash of fires occuring on the farm and within surrounding areas in the time frame of both of Christine’s visits there.

As the September alarms are no longer accessible on the Pocomoke Volunteer Fire Department Site, you are looking at a cached version confirming the call to the farm and the fact that photos DID exist of what was assuredly a major fire. Three different stations responded at a minimum. The Images have been deleted.

The day before the Byrd road chicken house fire on September 20th, the Showell Fire Department extinguished this chicken house fire:

Also a cached version of deleted information from the PVFD site, is this October Alarm Source, through October 23^rd, 2007:

Effective October 1, 2007 the Worcester County Fire Marshalls Office takes over.

“..The Worcester County Fire Marshal’s Office is responsible for conducting fire investigations of all fires in the County where arson is suspected, the fire is undetermined by the fire department, and/or an injury or death has occurred. The Worcester County Fire Marshal’s Office is the local enforcing agency for 3 municipalities and the County…”

Note the October 10th alarm for yet again, a subsequent fire in the chickenhouse on Byrd Road.

On October 11, the neighbors who have already been vicitmized by the Clarence Butch “ Jr” Jackson crew, are victimized again. As you can see the Fire Marshall visits Byrd Road.

What the record does not say, is that the neighbors are awakened at 3 am by the Fire Marshall and Deputy Parnell from the PCPD. They were told if they called the Fire Department one more time for fires on the neighboring property, they would be arrested.

On the exact same day that JR Jackson unsuccessfully seeks peace orders against the neighbors that are simply trying to avoid the menace of his existance at this point are denied on October 13th; there is another chicken house fire. Fire Police and Pocomoke PD are in attendance.

Another outside fire call on October 17^th. There is no data past October 23^rd on fire activity available for this time frame.

The November calls have been deleted entirely by the Pocomake VFD. The site is managed and maintained by “Choppy Layton” a long time Vounteer Fire Fighter and by all accounts, a solid guy.

What is astounding, is that I am in receipt of an email that confirms a witness gave a statement to Detective Trautman, the original detective in this case, on February 12, 2008.

Should we consider it a coincidence then, that the last time the PVFD site is updated, and apparently when the November alarms were deleted is February 12, 2008?

We have eyewitness accounts of fires on the Byrd Road farmhouse from November 9^th through the 13th at a minimum. Fire Police and Marshalls have been to the property. By my accounting, we are talking in the neighborhood of 12 fire alarms to this property alone, starting one month after an emergency outdoor burn ban.

Why hasn’t Clarence Jackson been charged with arson?

Any other suspects? Dead Issue? We know there are surveillance still pictures and security guard witnesses, what did they see?

What is the ratio of alarm calls versus arson arrests?

I digress.

Who was copied on the confirmation email containing a witness statement on February 12, 2008?

Michael McDermott.

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BlinkOnCrime for updates and comments

Pocomoke; Man Charged with multiple thefts from Wal*Mart

A Salisbury man has been charged with stealing more than $1,100 in merchandise over the course of four visits to the Pocomoke City Walmart Supercenter.

From Aug. 8 to Aug. 24, Gary Belote allegedly walked away with cell phone SIM cards, walkie-talkies, voice recorders and sunglasses.

He faces one count of theft of more than $500 in value, three counts of theft less than $500 in value, two counts of theft scheme and trespassing. If found guilty of the single charge of theft of items more than $500 in value, he could face up to 15 years in prison and a fine of $25,000.

According to police records filed in Worcester County District Court, on Aug. 24 a security official from Walmart contacted the Pocomoke City Police Department about a possible theft. Belote was seen on a security camera allegedly tampering with the packaging for a prepaid cell phone.

Police stopped the suspect as he was leaving the store on a bicycle. A SIM card was found in his pocket.

The phone and its packaging were found in the store near the fishing equipment. "The packet was cut open and the SIM card was the only thing missing," according to court documents.

A review of security footage revealed that Belote -- who was supposed to be restrained by a no-trespassing order for the Pocomoke City Walmart stemming from a September 2008 incident -- had allegedly stolen from the store on at least three other occasions.

According to police documents, on Aug. 8 he walked away with $800 in sunglasses. Tapes from Aug. 21 allegedly show Belote stealing two prepaid cell phones worth $92.88 and a pair of walkie-talkies valued at $49.94.

Two days later, Belote allegedly stole from the store again, this time a voice recorder and an iPod.

Belote was apprehended when he returned the following day. He is currently being held at the Worcester County Jail on $8,500 bond.

In September 2008, Belote was arrested for theft of less than $500, malicious destruction of property and failing to obey an officer of the law stemming from an incident at the same Walmart. He pleaded guilty to the theft charge and was sentenced to six months in jail.

Belote was also convicted of illegal drug possession in Ocean City in May 2008 and was found guilty of failing to pay required child support in November 2008. Several earlier run-ins with police took place between 1993 and 2004, according to court records; in a 2004 case, Belote pleaded guilty to the unlawful taking of a motor vehicle.

A hearing for the Walmart case will be held Sept. 25 in Worcester County District Court.

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Christine Sheddy, where was the law enforcement?

What is going on in our justice system?

Let’s discuss the missing Christine Sheddy case missing since Nov. 13 2007 almost 2 years now. At the beginning the LE’s thought that Christine may have just wondered off of the Farm @ 2911 Byrd Rd. or that she simply [ran away from it all] leaving her 2 young children behind with a group of deranged drunks and druggies.

I understand that the policy of LE that a person must be missing for 24 hours before they are declared “a missing person” but to think a mother of 3 that had 2 of her youngest with her (I think they were 2 and 4 at the time) would just “run away” and that the LE didn’t really start an official “missing persons” search until what I understand was 2 weeks after she went missing is just disheartening.

There was hardly any press, the residents of the farm packed-up and high-tailed, - their neighbors lived in such fear they had to hire 24/7 personal security and install surveillance equipment after being burglarized, and vandalized by their dearest neighbors with a wrap sheet as long as their lane at that now infamous ‘farm house’.

Why wasn’t the LE allover these people? Why did our local LE not take this serious until 2 weeks later? Why did our local LE not ask for the help of the FBI? Why did our local LE refuse the aid of our now VP Joe Biden? The list of these why did our local LE not, is endless.

I know for a fact that some of the best officers of the Wor. County Sheriffs office were put on this case but were tied to only what their superiors would allow them to do or how in-depth and how much time they allotted to do it.

Christine’s mom has not given-up though; the people of Pocomoke have not given-up, people from other states have gotten involved thanks to the PocomokeTattler and other blogs.

Fast forward; Someone found an organization that helps find missing persons www.BlinkOnCrime.com that took-on Christine’s case a week or so into August, now only a couple weeks into this case more has been done to find Christine and bring those to justice that had a hand in her disappearance.

The BlinkOnCrime team has no local knowledge; they don’t have the resources of the WCBI but have uncovered more in a couple weeks than our local authorities, why?

I have so many questions with no answers but most importantly, where does this leave us if find ourselves or a loved-one in this same situation?

I just don’t get it. Some of the things I have heard, seen posted, and read that the Mayor and some of the LEO’s have said about Christine is very disturbing to say the least, and extremely unprofessional, not to mention heartless.

Hopefully now that things are coming out and as the story breaks our LE is working with the BlinkOnCrime team.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m not knocking our LE, just a few members of them that can and does control what their officers do. This should not have been taken so lightly from the start, and that is what I think it’s all about. I really think that our LE knew they dropped the ball from the get-go so as to not look bad they just thought this would go away.

It’s not like our LE departments are swamped with missing persons or murder and frankly there’s absolutely no excuse for the lack of investigation in this case and someone or more than one should be held accountable in the end.

Law enforcement loses video evidence

Video evidence of drug dealers caught in the act, obtained during a months-long undercover crackdown on Berlin's open-air drug dealing, has been lost by law enforcement.

Worcester County State's Attorney Joel Todd said members of the county's Narcotics Task Force lost or recorded over video evidence from two drug deals. The footage, shot from inside an undercover police car, would have clearly identified two suspects in the sting.

"Those tapes, they don't exist anymore," Todd said at a community meeting for his Take Pride in Berlin program, an initiative to rid the community of drug dealing. "There was an error committed, and that's affecting the prosecution of those two people."

He called it "a police issue."

Eleven suspects were videotaped selling drugs to undercover Maryland State Police troopers or Ocean City police officers between February and May. Two of those men did not have criminal records and, after being confronted by a room full of disapproving people, were not prosecuted after a promise that they'd clean up their act.

The remaining nine suspects all had prior criminal records of drug dealing. Todd said seven of them have since been tracked down and arrested based on the video evidence against them, leaving the two men from the missing tapes outstanding. Nobody answered the phone to comment at the Snow Hill offices of the Worcester County Narcotics Task Force on Thursday.

Modeled after a successful 2004 program in High Point, N.C., the Berlin program tackled the drug-dealing hot spot of Bay Street at Flower Street. Todd said he'll continue running the program, which is funded by seized drug money, in Pocomoke City and Snow Hill.

Berlin Mayor Gee Williams said the residents of east Berlin have lived with drug dealing for many years, and many have told him that they're ready to stand up against it.

"If you're planting in the fall and winter, you're not going to get crops," he said. "For the kinds of issues we've got, it's finally spring. We have to move now."

Todd said they've already seen results from the crackdown in east Berlin as more dogs are out being walked and more moms take their babies out in strollers.

"I believe we've already turned a corner in wiping out the drug market," he said. "The test isn't if we wiped it out now, but next year and the year after that. I like to think it's a sign of things to come ... that you can't buy drugs in Berlin anymore."

At the meeting, 66-year-old Berlin resident William Nick credited the effort.

"The drug dealing is down 90 percent," he told Todd. "We've definitely made progress."

VIA DELMARVANOW.COM

Pocomoke City Councilman 'Cane' gets a PBJ

That's right, Pocomoke City Councilman Honiss Cane gets a PBJ for speeding 91 in a 65, He received a $264.50 fine and $25.50 court cost and PBJ.

From the Md case search website below:

DISTRICT COURT OF MARYLAND

Case Information
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Court System:	DISTRICT COURT FOR WICOMICO COUNTY (SALISBURY) - TRAFFIC SYSTEM
Citation Number:	000000FR55506Case Status:PROBATION CASE

Violation Date:	05/06/2009	Violation Time:	05:50 AM
Violation County:	WICOMICO COUNTY (SALISBURY)
District Code:	02	Location Code:	03

AgencyName:BARRACK E (SALISBURY)

Officer Name:MYERS,

Officer ID:4923

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Defendant Information

Defendant Name:CANE, HONISS WEBSTER

Address:103 4TH ST

City:

POCOMOKEState:MDZip Code:21851

Race:BLACK,AFRICAN AMERICAN

Sex:MHeight:505Weight:170

DOB:01/1932

Drivers License: C500313870082Issuing State: MD

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Charge Information

Charge:	Article:TASec:21Sub-Sec:801.1Para:Code:
Description:	DRIVING VEH. ON HWY. AT SPEED EXCEEDING LIMIT

Speed Limit:

65

Recorded Speed:

091

Location Stopped:

RT13 BYPASS N/B AT ST LUKES RD

Contributed to Accident?:

NO

Personal Injury?:

NO

Fine:

290

Vehicle Tag:

166M966

State:

MD

Vehicle Description:

00TOYT

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Disposition Information

Plea:	GUILTY
Disposition:	PROBATION BEFORE JUDGEMENT
Disposition Date:	08/20/2009

Speed Limit:	65	Convicted Speed:	091
Contributed To Accident:	NO	Personal Injury?:	NO

Sentence Date:

08/20/2009

Sentence Time:

Yrs:00Mos:00Days:000

Suspended Time:

Yrs:00Mos:00Days:000

Costs: Fine:	264.5	CourtCost:	25.5	CICF:	0
Suspended: Fine:	0	CourtCost:	0	CICF Cost:	0

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Event History Information

Event	Date	Comment
PPTR	2009-06-02	080609;0130P;02;052209;E;ADM OFFICE CLOSED COURT ;B
KEYP	2009-08-20	TRIAL KEYPOINT 14:21:04 REEL 999999
SCHG	2009-08-20	D225;A TO T

Way to set an example Honiss, you mean you don't have any power outside of Pocomoke?

Police continue search for Crisfield man missing since 2007

Police plan to return next week to a property on Canal Drive outside Crisfield to search for a man after a cadaver dog hit on a spot in the yard Friday, said 1st Sgt. Stanley Harmon of the Crisfield Police Department.

Officers went to the property as part of an ongoing investigation into the October 2007 disappearance of Gordon Nelson Sr., Harmon said. At the time he was reported missing, Nelson lived on Village Drive inside the city limits, but he previously lived on Canal Drive which is outside town near Janes Island State Park.

Although nothing was found on Friday, officers plan to return to conduct a more extensive search, he said.

Police consider his disappearance to be suspicious, Harmon said. Nelson was last seen at the local Veterans of Foreign Wars post.

VIA DELMARVANOW.COM
By Liz Holland

Help Find Missing Mother Christine Sheddy

The Mother of 3 young children Christine Sheddy that seamed to just vanish without a trace on November 12th 2007 from a farmhouse @ 2911 Byrd Rd in Pocomoke city Maryland has finally gained national attention after being all but swept under the rug by local authorities.

I have no doubts now that this case will be solved and and those that were at the Farmhouse on that faithful night will be brought to justice, I surely would not want to be the last to talk with BLINK on their tail.

The pouring in of information and attention from BLINKONCRIME and the SCARED MONKEYS forum will surely bring too light those that are involved AND those that dropped the ball early on in this case gone cold.

If any of the players get wind of what's happening, now is the time to come forward before you take all the heat and do time that you might not deserve because the others rat you out first. Do the right thing and turn yourself in today and make a deal. Or remember the one important rule... "don't drop the soap" because you know your buddys are going to sing like a ... well... like a jailbird.
THE PLAYERS

Christine's family deserves closure NOT the remarks of deflamating authorities that said things like "she's a sponge on society" or "it's not worth my time" (you know who you are)

Soooo... to all those involved, read this very closely... now that there is BLINKONCRIME and SCAREDMONKEYS on this case and countless blogs that reach millions of people it's no longer a matter of what, where, and how, or who you know... it's only a matter of when. This cold case is now boiling HOT.

For those that would like to refresh your memories, or those that want to get on board with helping find Christine please visit;


WWW.BLINKONCRIME.COM

WWW.SCAREDMONKEYS.COM

WWW.POCOMOKETATTLER.COM

For a search of all the blogs and forums that are closely following this case I have taken the liberty to find the search words that give the most results.

Click HERE to begin or HERE to begin you own custom search.

Town Creek Weed Farm Busted

LEONARDTOWN, Md. (Oct. 9, 2008) -- Robert Oscar Newland, a 22 year-old California, Md. man was arrested and charged Thursday after police found more than 100 marijuana plants and a Glock 40 caliber handgun in his home off of Town Creek Drive.

Police say they obtained a search and seizure warrant for the residence after an investigation led them to Newland.

Police say that once inside Newland's home they found an "extensive marijuana grow" which contained plants in various states of cultivation. Police value the plants and the grow equipment at more than $120,000.

The raid was executed by vice narcotics detectives from the Bureau of Criminal Investigations (BCI), assisted by the St. Mary's County Sheriff's Office Emergency Services Team.

Police say additional charges against Newland are pending a State's Attorney's Office review.
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Missing mother Christine Sheddy Radio Interview with BlinkOnCrime.com

If you missed the BlinkOnCrime.com interview hosted by www.scaredmonkeys.com here it is.

Part I


Part II


Part III


visit www.scaredmonkeys.com and www.blinkoncrime.com for all the updates on missing Christine Sheddy

If you have information that you think may help solve and/or find Christine Sheddy please contact BLINKONCRIME and SCAREDMONKEYS by clicking on their names here or at the right side of the page posted under "LINKS"