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Delaware Corrections Officers Held Hostage At Prison

... a corrections officer radioed for assistance with a major disturbance involving staff in one building that housed more than 100 inmates, authorities said. Officers responded and four corrections employees were taken hostage. The facility was quickly put on lockdown, authorities said. "It's been a long and difficult day," Gov. John Carney said. Read More. State police initially said five staffers were taken hostage. State Department of Safety and Homeland Security Secretary Robert Coupe said authorities later learned that one staff member believed to have been a hostage, who had been assigned to work in that area where the incident took place, was in another part of the building. One corrections officer was released about 2:30 p.m. and the second officer was let go shortly before 8 p.m., Coupe said. CNN Map. State Police spokesman Sgt. Richard Bratz said the first employee who was released was taken to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The second officer was still being ...

Guards Held Hostage By Inmates At Delaware Prison

... medium to maximum security, he said. There has been very little communication between inmates and those on the outside, and no demands have been communicated to the union, according to Rogers. Video from above the prison shows uniformed officers gathered in two groups along fences near an entrance to the prison. Later, video showed several people surrounding a stretcher and running as they pushed it across the compound. It wasn't clear if a person was on the stretcher. People could be seen standing near a set of doors with an empty stretcher and wheelchair. Gravell said firefighters were called to the scene after reports of smoke and were being held on standby. According to the department's website, the prison is Delaware's largest correctional facility for men, housing about 2,500 inmates. It houses minimum, medium, and maximum security inmates, and also houses Kent County detainees awaiting trial. It is also the site of the state's death row and where executions were carried out. The prison opened in 1971. In 2004, an inmate raped a ...

Bank Robbery Leads To 50 Year Prison Sentence

... 2017. Criminal   Department of Justice   Press Releases. Others face prison time for weapons, robbery, and child pornography charges. A 46-year-old man from Bear was sentenced to 50 years in prison for a 2011 bank robbery in Kent County which resulted in a police pursuit and gunfire. Deputy Attorneys General Susan Schmidhauser and Ben Snyder secured the sentence for Russell Grimes, who was convicted at trial in November 2016 of Robbery First Degree, Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony, Possession of a Firearm by a Person Prohibited and 5 counts of Reckless Endangering 2 nd. In August 2011, Grimes, and his co-defendant William Sells, conspired together to commit a bank robbery at the First National Bank of Wyoming in the 100 block of Irish Hill Road in Felton. The co-defendant, Sells, went into the bank, displayed a gun, and threatened to shoot the employees if he didn’t get money. Grimes drove the get-away vehicle and led the police on a 16 mile high speed chase through western Kent County. While State Police chased the SUV, Sells fired a ...

Delaware Sticks To Prison 'loaf' While Other States End Use

... No. 256265 has a simpler description. "Basically, it's baked slop," Kevin Dickens said as he picked at a hunk of nutraloaf during a recent prison interview. Dickens is no stranger to the concoction also known as an alternative meal plan. He's been on a loaf diet for longer than any other Delaware inmate — five straight weeks. Prisons and jails in other states also have served "the loaf" to unruly inmates, typically for misbehavior involving food or bodily waste, but its use is on the decline following years of lawsuits around the country, some equating it to cruel and unusual punishment. Prison officials maintain that the loaf is not meant as punishment. They consider it a behavioral management tool, used in response to disruptive conduct that threatens the safety of prison operations. Nevertheless, the New York Department of Corrections agreed to eliminate its "special management meal" in 2015 as part of a settlement of a broader ACLU ...

Guilty Plea In 2007 Murder Case, Prison Time For Manslaughter, And Adult Convictions For Violent Juveniles

... murder case. Jason Slaughter pled guilty to Murder Second Degree in connection with the shooting of his friend, Christopher Masters. When police arrived at Masters’ home in the Summit Bridge Trailer Park in December 2007, they found him dead from a gunshot wound to the head, and Slaughter suffering from a gunshot wound to his shoulder. Slaughter told police two men arrived at the trailer and shot him and Masters. The case went cold for two years. Slaughter moved to Georgia where he was arrested for the murder of Michael Haegle in 2010. In that case, Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) investigators found Slaughter was the beneficiary of a life insurance policy taken out on the victim, Haegle. During the investigation GBI found another insurance policy with Slaughter as the beneficiary and Christopher Masters as the insured. In 2012, Slaughter, already in custody in Georgia, was indicted for Masters’ murder in Delaware. In August of 2013 Slaughter was convicted of the Haegle murder in Georgia. Slaughter will be sentenced by Superior Court Judge Eric Davis in February, and ...

Guards Taken Hostage By Inmates At Delaware Prison

... correctional officer inside Building C, which houses over 100 inmates, radioed for immediate assistance, Delaware State Police spokesman Sgt. Richard Bratz said. Other officers responded to help, and the employees were taken hostage, he said. Bratz initially said five employees were taken hostage, but authorities at a later news conference said the number had been revised to four after one person thought to be among the hostages was found in another part of the prison. Robert Coupe, secretary of the Delaware Department of Safety and Homeland Security, said 27 inmates also had left the building over the course of the evening. Authorities don't know "the dynamics of the takeover" or whether those inmates had been held against their will, Coupe said. One of the freed employees was taken to a hospital for injuries that were not life-threatening, authorities said. The condition of the second wasn't immediately available. Earlier in the day, inmates reached out to The News Journal in Wilmington in two phone calls to explain their actions and make demands. Prisoners funneled the calls to the paper with ...

Delaware 105.9, Lewes, De

... Delaware State Police for their lead and partnership in this investigation, and the citizens of Milton for providing us with information," Milton Police Chief Robert Longo said. "We take our community's concerns very serious.". Delaware State Police released these details of the investigation Wednesday. The Delaware State Police Sussex County Drug Unit, in partnership with Milton Police Department, have arrested two people after the culmination of a one month long investigation into illegal drug sales from a residence in Milton. On Tuesday January 31, 2017 around 11:00 a.m., the Sussex County Drug Unit and the Milton Police Department conducted a search warrant at a residence in the 400 block of Pine Street. Terrance L. Barnes, 35 of Milton, was taken into custody without incident outside the residence, while Parker M. Dutton, 38 of Milton, was taken into custody without incident inside the residence. A search of the residence revealed 42 bags (.63 grams) of heroin, 7.1 grams of crack cocaine.58 grams of powder cocaine, and over $3,100.00 in ...

2 Released, 2 Held Hostage In Delaware Prison Standoff

... hostage, but authorities at a later news conference said the number had been revised to four after one person thought to be among the hostages was found in another part of the prison. Emergency responders, including police from neighboring Pennsylvania and Delaware, converged on the prison Wednesday afternoon. As NBC Philadelphia's Sky Force 10 hovered near the correctional facility around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, dozens of law enforcement members could be seen staging near a gate. A short time later, a group of people were seen rushing someone on a stretcher to another building on the sprawling campus. Blood Bank Delmarva appealed to the public for O blood type and platelet donations to be taken to the prison. One hostage was released Wednesday around 2:25 p.m. and taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. At ...