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FEBRUARY 1, 2013
Paraphernalia for sale on Boardwalk leads to probation NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer (Feb. 1, 2013) Two men were put on probation last week for selling drug paraphernalia in their Boardwalk stores. Benjamin Darmony, 45, of Berlin was charged with distribution of drug paraphernalia in August after Ocean City police seized smoking devices commonly using for smoking marijuana his store, Shore Side Shop at 106 S. Atlantic Ave. The pipes, police said, were in the proximity of various items such as ashtrays, T-shirt and statues that promoted the use of marijuana. All displayed marijuana leaves. In District Court in Ocean City on Jan. 23, Darmony was found guilty of the charge and fined $500 in addition to being put on unsupervised probation for one year. Claude Darmony, 24, who used the address of his store, NY Piercing at 409 Atlantic Ave., as his home address, was found guilty of the same charge and received the same fine and sentence the same day Benjamin Darmony was in court. The younger Darmony was found not guilty of possession of drug paraphernalia. In June, Ocean City police had given each man a 15-page packet containing the Maryland Criminal Law Article governing drug paraphernalia with explanations and examples of what constitutes such paraphernalia.
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Seacrets vindicated in rape case lawsuit from 2008 NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer (Feb. 1, 2013) A federal jury decided Monday that Seacrets was not liable for a 2008 rape in its parking lot. The lawsuit, filed by “Jane Doe” to protect her identity, argued that the security staff should have permitted her to return inside the club. The 25-year-old woman had gone to the 49th Street club with friends on May 24 during Memorial Day weekend. She claimed she went outside the club to answer a cell phone call because the parking lot was quieter than the club’s interior. Because she expected to return to her friends inside, she left her purse behind with her identification and hotel room key.
When she tried to re-enter the club, she said, security personnel would not let her in because of her alleged intoxication. Security videos at Seacrets told a different story. According to The Daily Record, cameras at the bar taped the woman as she swayed and then fell toward the bar. Because of her intoxication, a doorman escorted her outside to a bench, but she did not remain there and she refused both taxi and bus rides. Although it is Seacrets’ policy for its employees to attempts to reunite people escorted out of the bar with their friends, the policy is not required during the busy summer months because of the thousands of people inside the large club, according to the Maryland Daily Record. While the ejected woman was in the parking lot, Lorenzo Ivan Garcia-Moreno
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NANCY POWELL ■ Staff Writer (Feb. 2, 2013) Ocean City police are investigating the unattended death of a 39-year-old resort resident and some sources have told Ocean City Today that the case is being investigated as a possible homicide. Police and EMS went to Somerset Street at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday in response to a report about an unconscious man on the street outside the Harbor Inn bar. The man was taken to Atlantic General Hospital where he was pronounced dead. He was identified as Michael Eric Post, 39, of Ocean City. Post’s body was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Baltimore for an autopsy to determine the manner and cause of Post’s death. Some sources said Post was pushed by a man and slipped on the ice, hitting his head. Both men had reportedly been drinking inside the bar. The Ocean City police released no further information.
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