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originally posted still photos of the suspects on social media accounts, in hopes someone would recognize them, or that the individuals would come forward.

The surveillance video was also updated to the Ocean City Police Department’s YouTube page at youtube/SCkGVvea-ic. The video is considered graphic and shows the individuals harming the fish.

The release said the Ocean City police are taking the incident seriously and exhausting all efforts to bring the fish owners some closure and justice. Anyone who can identify the subjects in the video, is asked to contact PFC E. Rhode at erhode@oceancitymd.gov, or the Ocean City Police Department at 410-723-6610.

Anonymous tips may be left by phone at 410-520-5136, or electronically at oceancitymd.gov/oc/departments/police/crime-tips. Tipsters are asked to reference case number 2023-00-2813.

(July 21, 2023) A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to charges stemming from a Worcester County motorcycle wreck that killed one woman and injured two other people in September 2021.

According to the original police report, on Sept. 18, 2021, Brian P. Riley, 47, of Altoona, Pennsylvania, was driving a 2011 Harley Davidson with a passenger, Lorrie J. Buoymaster, 49, also of Altoona, at the intersection of routes 610 and 50 in Berlin.

Riley reportedly crashed into a 2002 Harley Davidson driven by a male driver with a female passenger.

Buoymaster was seriously injured in the wreck and flown by helicopter to R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore for treatment, where she later died.

The driver and passenger of the 2002 Harley were also injured.

Riley was taken into custody at the scene and later released.

Nearly a year later, at the conclusion of the investigation, Riley was charged with several felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from the crash.

On July 10, according to Maryland Judiciary Case Search records, Riley pleaded guilty to negligent manslaughter with a vehicle or vessel, and two counts of causing life-threatening injuries in a vehicle or boat while under the influence. The charges are all misdemeanors.

According to the records, Riley was sentenced to three years on the negligent manslaughter charge with all but one suspended, and three years each on the other two charges, with all but two suspended, for a total of five years in prison.

The OCPD charged Austin Lee Humphreys, 23, of Delmar, with DUI and failure to stop at or report an accident that he had been involved in, according to a police report.

On Saturday, July 15, around 3 a.m., police saw a Toyota Camry with heavy rear-end damage stopped near 62nd Street on Coastal Highway. A witness told police a white sedan involved in the crash had left the scene.

Officers found a white Hyundai Sonata parked in a nearby lot with front-end damage, and saw two men walking away from it. When police approached them they ran down an alleyway, but eventually stopped, police

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One of them was Humphreys, according to police, who said the other man told them he had been in the passenger seat when the airbags suddenly deployed while they were driving.

The man whose car had been struck told police he was driving north on Coastal Highway when it occurred. He said when he found a place to stop, he didn’t see any other cars around with damages.

The victim gave police the suspect’s front license plate that had fallen off in the crash. It matched Humphrey’s Sonata.

The man who had been the passenger in the car told police he and Humphreys had been at a local bar.

Humphreys told police he couldn’t recall anything about the crash besides the airbags deploying, and that he didn’t drive far or mean to flee.

Police arrested Humphreys, and police could see signs he was intoxicated. At the booking facility, Humphreys failed a sobriety test.

Triston Maurice Butler, 20, of Pittsburgh, received seven charges from the OCPD, including possession of a controlled dangerous substance with intent to distribute, obstructing and hindering and making a false statement to an officer, according to a police report.

On Sunday, July 16, around 10:30 a.m., police near 17th Street and Baltimore Avenue saw a blue Nissan Rogue by a nearby hotel. Officers recognized it as a car related to Butler, who was wanted in Pittsburgh for reckless endangerment involving a firearm.

Police pulled the car over after they noticed the occupants weren’t wearing seatbelts, and they detained Butler in handcuffs.

When police asked Butler for identification, he allegedly gave officers a fake name. Police told Butler they knew who he was and that he had an active arrest warrant, but he stuck to the fake name, according to the report.

Officers arrested Butler and searched him. Inside Butler’s bag, police found a plastic bag containing 71 Alprazolam pills, the same drug used in Xanax, and more than $3,500 in cash.

Inside the car officers found another bag containing psilocybin mushrooms.

Police charged Kenna Marie Ward, 21, of Abingdon, Maryland with disorderly conduct, failure to obey a lawful order and assault, following an inci- dent last Sunday.

Police said a bicycle patrol officer was flagged down on Sunday, July 16, around midnight, because a fight on the 10 block of North Division Street. There, a man told officers he had been jumped by four black men, and that they had punched Ward, his girlfriend.

Police saw the group of men walking away and advised other officers to detain them.

While police tried to talk to Ward, she was speaking on the phone about the incident and used the N-word while describing the men she and her boyfriend had fought, according to the report. A passerby told her not to use that word, and she cursed at them.

Police put Ward in handcuffs and asked her to stop yelling. Ward’s boyfriend told police he had been hit in the jaw, and Ward said she’d also been hit in the jaw. The two alleged that the other group had started the fight.

Police arrested Ward for disorderly conduct.

Police wrote that when they reviewed the security footage, Ward’s boyfriend had appeared to be the main aggressor. In the video Ward hit one of the men from behind, according to the report.