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Ayala told officers everyone in the truck was aware that there were two handguns in the truck, including Engle. He also told police that the truck belonged to his boss, as did the guns.

Adderall and Xanax

Russell Kyle Brooks, 31, of Kingsville, Maryland was arrested by Ocean City Police at approximately 7 p.m. on Sept. 4 near the Caroline Street bathrooms on the Boardwalk and charged with possession of drugs.

Police said Brooks’ father was stopped for walking a dog on the boards, and the father told officers the dog belonged to his son and that the paperwork could be provided to show it was a service dog.

The father took officers to his son, who was near the Caroline Street bathrooms, and Brooks provided them with a piece of paper showing it was a service dog, though it was not approved through Americans with Disabilities Act, police said.

Brooks told officers it was for his anxiety. Officers then told Brooks to remove the dog from the Boardwalk, and he became combative, police said.

When Brooks provided the officers with identification, police said, a plastic bag was seen in his pocket. Brooks told officers he had a prescription for the pills in the bag, including Clonazepam, a controlled dangerous substance. The bag also contained Adderall and Xanax.

When asked to provide proof of a prescription for the pills, Brooks failed, and he was placed under arrest.

“I’m gonna be in jail for 15 years,” he told police. “This is gonna violate my probation.”

Driving on pills

Austin Yates John Harrill, 23, of Ocean City was arrested by Ocean City Police at 12:29 a.m. on Sept. 5 near 25th Street and charged with driving under the influence of a controlled substance.

Police stopped Harrill for a traffic violation and during questioning, officers spotted several loose pills and several prescription medications bottles throughout the vehicle.

Harrill told officers he was taking Oxycodone and five other medications.

After an investigation, Harrill was found to be under the influence of a controlled substance, though he refused to perform any field sobriety tests or submit to an alcohol concentration test. phia was arrested by Ocean City Police at approximately 10 p.m. on Sept. 6 near 12th Street and charged with possession of drugs, paraphernalia, and a fighting knife.

Police said Diaz was the passenger of a vehicle that was stopped for a traffic violation and when officers approached, marijuana emanated from the vehicle.

All the occupants were ordered out of the car, and when Diaz got out, she became nervous and started checking her pockets until she pulled out a roach.

Diaz told officers that the roach was the reason for searching the car to stop the officer from searching the front seat passenger area, according to court documents.

A search of a backpack in Diaz’s possession contained a spring-assisted knife, a clear plastic baggie with four individual baggies of cocaine, and a razor blade with what police believed was cocaine residue on it.

Wrong way driver

Jason Scott Howells, 36, of Elmira, New York was arrested by Ocean city Police at 12:54 a.m. on Sept. 8 near 139th Street and charged with possession of drugs and various other charges.

Police stopped Howells after he was seen driving south in the northbound lanes of Coastal Highway, nearly causing a motor vehicle accident. His also had a suspended license

Polices said they smelled marijuana coming from the car and during a search found four packages of Suboxone sublingual film in his wallet and an open bottle of beer in the center console.

Heroin possession

Jamie Lynn Mills, 43, of Ocean City was arrested by Ocean City Police at 6:17 p.m. on Sept. 10 near Fourth Street and charged with possession of drugs and paraphernalia.

Police stopped Mills after conducting a license plate check and found that Mills’ license was suspended. Mills told police she had just cleaned a unit at a hotel near 84th Street and that she needed to go back for her purse, police said.

In the meantime, a call from the unit Mills said she had just cleaned advised police that there were needles, bags of drugs, and an identification card in the room.

Police said the identification card was Mills’, and the drugs included two pills of Clonazepam and three bundles of heroin. The bundles contained 45 individual wax paper folds, police added, and was packaged in a way to be sold.

When Mills arrived at the hotel, she was placed under arrest for possession of controlled dangerous sub-

Marijuana distribution

Brandon Ramsey Fogle, 19, of Frederica, Delaware, and Darron Russell Leager, 20, of Delmar, Delaware were arrested by Ocean City Police at 1:38 a.m. on Sept. 12 near Third Street and charged with possession of more than 10 grams of marijuana and intent to distribute.

Police said Fogle was stopped for a traffic infraction and when officers approached the vehicle, they smelled marijuana.

Fogle was the driver of the car, police said, and as he gathered his license and registration, the officers noticed the smell of marijuana get stronger and spotted marijuana scattered throughout the car.

Fogle told officers his license was suspended until he was 21, a result of getting a DUI at 15.

Police conducted a search of the car and found a black leather bag between Leager’s legs containing rubber bands, more than 10 grams of marijuana in a plastic bag, two small scales, and a large amount of clear plastic bags.

In the trunk, police also found well over 10 grams of marijuana. Both men were placed under arrest.

CROSSWORD

U-boats gave Nazis benefit, but not for long

By Sam Ghaleb Contributing Writer (Sept. 17, 2021) This week, 80 years ago, a titanic struggle was taking place in the Atlantic Ocean. This campaign became known as the “Battle of the Atlantic.”

It was not about the most powerful navy, nor was it about glorious battles fought between battleships, cruisers and aircraft carriers. The Battle of the Atlantic was a commerce war waged by German U-boats (submarines) against Allied merchant fleets.

The name “Battle of the Atlantic” was first used by Winston Churchill in 1941 to describe this epic campaign by U-boats to strangle Britain. For nearly six years, Germany launched almost 1,153 U-boats into combat in an attempt to isolate and blockade the British Isles, thereby forcing the British out of the war. It was a fight that nearly choked the shipping lanes of Great Britain, cutting off vital supplies of food, fuel and raw materials needed to continue fighting.

By the end of the war, German Uboats had sent more than 2,828 ships of 14.6 million tons of Allied shipping, and 175 warships to the bottom of the sea. In exchange, the Allies sank almost 784 U-boats. More than 30,000 of the 39,000 German sailors who put to sea on board U-boats never returned – the highest casualty rate of any armed service in the history of modern war.

Grand Adm. Karl Dönitz, commander of the German U-boat force, understood the potential of the submarine’s unconventional ability, because he had been an U-boat captain in WWI. But he was the only officer in the German High Command who believed that victory could be achieved solely by German U-boats, and that such a victory would lead to an early conclusion of the war. Others did not share his view and believed that big guns and unsinkable battleships were the keys to control of the High Seas.

As an island nation, the United Kingdom depended on imported goods. It required more than a million tons of imported material, per week, in order to survive and fight. In essence, the Battle of the Atlantic was a tonnage war: the Allied struggle to supply Britain, and the Axis struggle to cut off the merchant shipping which enabled Britain to keep fighting.

From 1942 onwards, the Germans also sought to prevent the build-up of Allied supplies and equipment in the British Isles in preparation for the invasion of occupied Europe. The defeat of the U-boat threat was a prerequisite for pushing back the Germans. The outcome of the battle was a strategic victory for the Allies. The German blockade failed—but at great cost.

In September 1939, when Germany attacked Poland and WWII began, Adm. Dönitz had 57 U-boats at his disposal. Early that month, the British liner Athenia became the first passenger ship to be sunk by a U-boat in the war, with 112 people losing their lives.

A few days later, the cargo ship Bosnia, became the first cargo ship to be sunk by a U-boat. At the same time, the Allies resorted to the successful WWI practice of massing ships into more easily defended convoys.

The U-boat fleet operated out of its north German bases before the fall of France. After June 1940, they primarily used bases on the west coast of France to get to the Atlantic. U-boats operated as far as the east coast of South America, the west and southern coasts of Africa, north of Iceland and throughout the mid-Atlantic.

Germany fought the Battle of the Atlantic primarily with two oceangoing classes of U-boats. Type VII was the work horse of the German Uboat fleet. The Type VIIs had a surface displacement of 750 tons, a speed of 17 knots surfaced and eight knots submerged, and a range of 6,500 miles at a speed of 12 knots.

The boat was armed with four torpedo tubes forward and one aft and carried 14 torpedoes. They were also armed with an 88 mm deck gun and a 20 mm gun for air defense, which was later replaced by a 37 mm. More than 700 Type VII U-boats were completed during the war.

The larger type IX U-boats were more than 1,000 tons surface displacement, and had a speed of 18 knots surfaced and eight knots submerged. These ocean-going U-boats had a range of 11,000 miles and were armed with four torpedo tubes forward and two aft.

These boats were armed with a 105 mm deck gun and a 20 mm gun for air defense. Before the end of the war 283 Type IXs were completed. During the war, German ship yards were building U-boats at the rate of 20 per month.

On the Allied side, the weapons that fought in the Battle of the Atlantic covered a wide range of platforms and technologies. The Flower class corvette was by far the most nuContinued on Page 56