Staff Writer August 2, 2022 Police & Fire, RSS

Delaware State Police have arrested 28-year-old Wade Wilson of Millsboro, DE for felony assault and other charges following an investigation that began on Monday afternoon.

On August 1, 2022, at approximately 12:07 p.m., troopers responded to the area of Webbs Lane in Dover regarding a stolen motor vehicle. Troopers were advised that a gold 2009 Ford Crown Victoria was at this location, which had been reported overnight as stolen. A trooper contacted the occupant of the parked sedan, who was later identified as Wade Wilson. Wilson refused to comply with the trooper’s commands, and he subsequently placed the vehicle in drive and began accelerating forward. Wilson dragged the trooper with his vehicle until the trooper struck a tree. The vehicle then collided with a sign and came to a stop in a grassy area. Wilson exited the vehicle and fled the scene on foot. The trooper was treated at an area hospital for several physical injuries sustained during the encounter.

Wilson was later apprehended and taken into custody by Dover Police Department on Monday evening after officers responded to a report of a suspicious person on Mimosa Avenue. Wilson was transported to Troop 3 and charged with the following crimes:

Wilson was arraigned by Justice of the Peace Court # 7 and committed to Sussex Correctional Institution on $10,000 cash bond.

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A memorial tree and plaque will be unveiled during a Delaware COVID-19 memorial ceremony. Photo by Pascal Muller/Unsplash   The state will hold a memorial ceremony May 3 to remember the Delaware parents, siblings, children and friends  and those who have died so far because of the COVID-19 pandemic, and those whose lives have been affected by those losses. It will take place at 1 p.m. at the Jesse Cooper Building at  417 Federal St., Dover. During the ceremony, which will feature a slew of state officials, a memorial tree and plaque will be unveiled. The Yellow Heart Memorial, a nonprofit that offers an online space to remember loved ones, will provide hearts for people to fill out for lost family members. “My dad was 1 of 2,896 Delawareans and almost 1 million Americans who needlessly lost their lives to Covid,” said Charonda Johnson, strategic partnerships manager, for COVID Survivors for Change. “I’m honored to partner with Lt. Governor Bethany Hall-Long, the Delaware Division of Public Health, and the Yellow Heart Memorial as we remember those who still suffer from the long-term impacts of COVID and those who have died. “It’s critical for us to rebuild our community through empathy and work to ensure that the deaths of our loved ones were not in vain.” Government officials who will attend the ceremony include Gov. John Carney; Lt. Gov. Bethany Hall-Long; Molly Magarik, secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services; and Dr. Karyl Rattay, director of the Division of Public Health “As a nurse who joined many of our courageous health care workers to test and vaccinate Delawareans during the pandemic, I was able to witness firsthand the impact that COVID-19 had on our families across the state,”  said Hall-Long. “Many of our friends and neighbors have suffered a tremendous loss – their loved ones. Many are still suffering from the effects of surviving COVID-19 as well. I look forward to this opportunity to join, thank and honor all of these individuals and the public health and health care workers who continue to save lives and give us hope.” The pandemic not only affected families, but also healthcare workers, said Dr. Karyl Rattay, director of the Division of Public Health.  “Our state’s public health and health care workforce worked tirelessly around the clock to help test, distribute information, vaccinate, educate, and provide care to all Delawareans,” she said, ” and they are still working to ensure that Delawareans are safe and well despite the health crisis, often sacrificing their own mental health and well-being in the process. I hope this ceremony will be the start of healing for many.”

  Weather permitting,  one ramp allowing access to northbound Interstate 95 in Wilmington will close Sunday night, Aug. 1, and another will open. That means routes will change by Monday morning for traffic going into and out of the city. Closing will be the Adams Street/Delaware Avenue on-ramp for I95 northbound Opening will be the 10th Street/Adams Street On-Ramp to I95 northbound. The changes are part of phase 1 of the Restore the Corridor project, leading into phase 1b. Preparations for the changes will start on Friday, according to the Delaware Department of Transportation. That work will include installing signage on detour routes, striping and barrier relocation. Restore the Corridor is the nickname of a state project that involves rebuilding Interstate 95 in Wilmington, where it bisects the city. The multiphase project is expected to be finished by fall of 2023. It will involve frequent lane changes and opening and closings of on- and off-ramps into the city.

    Hundreds of thousands of Delawareans descend on tiny Harrington each year for the Delaware State Fair, but those who travel the furthest often are the food vendors.  The cuisine choices range from ordinary to unusual to downright weird.  Only at the state fair might one decide what time is right to munch on an octopus taco, a fried spaghetti stick or a glazed donut cheeseburger. And whether to try them back to back to back. Delaware LIVE News visited the fair Tuesday to try it all, but discovered the real character lies not in the food being served, but in the people serving it.  Take Kelly Elliot, better known to fairgoers as “Mama Jugs.” She has been serving flavored iced tea at the Delaware State Fair for four years, although she’s been in business throughout the country for more than a decade.  Her exotic teas feature titles such as Wango Tango Peach Mango, Just Peachy, Rocking Raspberry, Very Berry Pomegranate and Pucker Up. Fun flavors are to be expected at the fair, but Mama Jugs tea comes with an even more exotic premise: free refills.  Tuesday was a slow day, Elliott said. They would likely sell around 500 jugs of tea at each of her two locations on that early week day. During the busy weekend, however, Mama Jugs sold more than 4,500 jugs of tea in just one day.  “On Saturday we opened up at 11 in the morning and we never cleared our line until 11:30 at night,” Elliot said. “Year over year we’ve increased sales, with the exception of the pandemic.” Elliot said she was inspired to start her business after visiting fairs around the country where customers were priced out of purchasing refreshing beverages. “We just thought, ‘Let’s try something new.’ I sat there saying ‘mama, mama, mama’ and once I thought of the name, Mama Jugs, I said, ‘That’s it.’ ”  The company has a strong Florida season from Jan. 7 through March 31. Then it breaks down and hits the fair circuit. Elliot spends a month in the Georgia mountains visiting county fairs, then three months in Texas before she makes her way northeast to fairs like the one in Delaware. The demand for her tea has become high enough that Mama Jugs has begun selling online so that fans can enjoy their favorites year-round.      Another familiar traveling food vendor is Dino Constantinou, who has been serving gyros at the Delaware State Fair for nearly 25 years alongside his wife, son and brother. Constantinou grew up on the Greek island of Cyprus before moving to New York City, where he has spent his whole life cooking Greek cuisine.  For the past two decades, Constantinou has traveled all along the Eastern Seaboard sharing his culinary skill with fairgoers. “It’s one of my favorite events,” Constantinou said. “You have to take into consideration that before the pandemic I did fairs week after week in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Delaware.” Constantinou praised Delaware for being the one of the only fairs in the nation to not cancel their event last year. However, he said, even with the elimination of mask and social distancing mandates, he is struggling to return to normal business.  “The thing that happened this year is that there are no people who want to work,” Constantinou said. “Probably the reason is that the government is giving a lot of money out to people and they’d rather take that money than come and work.” Constantinou said his food stand is usually staffed by eight people, but this year only five were willing to work, most of whom are in his immediate family.  That won’t stop him from chowing around. “The food vendors here are my competitors, but let me tell you, you can find some of the finest food vendors in the whole country right here,” Constantinou said. “Of course I love my food, but right now I can’t wait to go eat from this person and this person, because they all have very, very good food.”  The Delaware State Fair fair continues through Saturday and will feature musical artists Hardy, 38 Special and Zach Williams on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, respectively. The annual harness race will take place on Thursday. Admission costs $9.50 for adults and $4.50 for children under the age of 12. Contact Charlie Megginson at [email protected]  

Police officers are not on board with a revised bill to amend Delaware’s Law Enforcement Officer Bill of Rights. The bill would open police misconduct records for the public to view and create two tiers of community review boards, each with the power to examine law enforcement agencies’ handling of officer misconduct cases and make recommendations for improvements. Police misconduct records would also be able to be used in court proceedings and police agencies would be barred from destroying or discarding those records. In a statement after the substitute bill was filed, Lockman said a “culture of secrecy and ambiguity…has allowed hatred and fear of law enforcement to grow in our state” and argued that the legislation will put “oversight into those agencies in the hands of the people, where it belongs.”  Patrick Ogden, president of the Delaware Association of Chiefs of Police, said in an op-ed published Tuesday that his biggest concern is that law enforcement would be excluded from being voting members on civilian review boards.  “Every single professional board in the State of Delaware includes practitioners from the industry,” the chief said. “To exclude members of the law enforcement community flies in the face of working together to garner trust, transparency and accountability.” Ogden also cited concerns relating to the lack of clarity around civilian review boards and questioned: “how they will work from a sensible and realistic perspective.” “We are not opposed to being more transparent. We are not opposed to accountability. However, we are disheartened that the members of the General Assembly, namely those who are leading the charge, have not taken the time to truly understand the process which they are trying to alter through this legislation,” he said.  Ogden is also associate vice president and chief of police at the University of Delaware. Lockman argued that by shielding officers’ misconduct records, numerous officers in Delaware have continued to serve in positions of public trust despite “repeated and egregious accusations of misconduct.” Under the bill, municipalities and county governments would be able to create local community review boards with the power to analyze patterns in police discipline and determine whether local law enforcement agencies are handling police misconduct cases appropriately.  Those boards would be able to access redacted and de-identified versions of police disciplinary records – including unsubstantiated complaints – and recommend changes to the internal policies and procedures used by law enforcement agencies.  According to Lockman, if a local community review board believes a police agency is not acting appropriately, it could request further review by a statewide community review board. That board, according to a press release from the Senate Democratic Caucus, would be made up of people from “historically impacted communities.”  The state board would be authorized to confidentially review completed internal investigations and issue public reports on their findings. Efforts to reach the Delaware Fraternal Order of Police for comment were unsuccessful. Rep. Kendra Johnson, the bill’s House sponsor, said that since the Legislative Black Caucus – which she chairs – announced the “Justice for All Agenda” in June 2020, the group has worked consistently to achieve “meaningful criminal justice and law enforcement reforms.” Those reforms include requiring police body cameras and recording of interrogations, establishing a uniform use-of-force standard, automating expungements and raising the age of prosecution, Johnson, D-Bear said.  Those were all efforts that the Delaware Association of Police Chiefs and others were glad to be a part of, according to Ogden.  “For each one of these items the Chiefs of Police offered our public support and commitment to implementing these new laws,” he said.  The chiefs offered professional experience to help educate other stakeholders on the process and procedures that are currently in place and offered meaningful suggestions on how to improve accountability, Ogden said.  In late February 2022, Lockman invited the police chiefs and others to a meeting during which they discussed substitute language conceptually.  On March 8, Ogden said, a draft substitute was shared with the police chiefs association, and two days later they were asked to meet to discuss the draft language. “During that meeting, we highlighted both procedural and pragmatic concerns, as well as our commitment to get this right to achieve our common goals,” the chief said. “A substitute bill was filed late yesterday without any notice and without any feedback from the sponsors relative to our previous discussion.” He added that “being a good-faith partner goes both ways” and concluded that, as written, the Delaware Association of Chiefs of Police cannot support the substitute bill.  Because the original bill already went through the committee process in 2021, the substitute bill can move to the Senate floor without additional consideration. The Senate agenda for Thursday hasn’t been posted, but it could happen as soon as this week. If passed in the Senate, the bill would proceed to a House committee and then to the full House for final consideration and approval.

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