POLICE/COURTS

Arrest warrant filed

Erica Ann Uff, 33, of Ocean City, faces six charges stemming from a car crash on St. Louis Avenue on April 25, including driving while impaired by drugs, driving without a license, failure to avoid collision and negligent driving, according to an arrest warrant filed on May 10.

On April 25, around 7 a.m., police responded to a car crash at 14th Street and St. Louis Avenue to find a RAV4 flipped upside down in the street. Officers met Uff there, who had been driving the car. She was bleeding from her nose and forehead.

A witness told police they saw the RAV4 swerve from the northbound to the southbound lane and hit a parked truck, with an attached trailer holding a boat, before flipping.

While getting treated by EMS, Uff admitted to taking methadone, an opioid withdrawal drug, about 20 minutes earlier.

Uff reportedly told police that while she was driving she felt like she needed to vomit and was trying to pull over. Police said she told them she passed out before she could stop, causing her to crash.

On the way to TidalHealth, Uff reportedly told police she was in the process of detoxing and gets methadone every morning from a local addiction center. She said she has been taking methadone for two years and never reacted in a way where she passed out.

Uff told police she remembered the impact of the crash and that she had been following the speed limit.

Uff also said she did not have a driver’s license, but that she was supposed to get her permit later in the week and had to complete a driver improvement course.

Police found in Uff’s driving records that she had driving privileges suspended in Maryland six times over the last 13 years.

Dui

John Gerald Robbins Jr., 42, of Berlin, received seven charges, including DUI, open container alcohol beverage and failure to avoid a traffic collision, according to a police report.

On May 13, around 12:30 p.m., police responded to a call about a car crash at 133rd Street and Coastal Highway. At the scene, police met Robbins, who had been driving the car that had hit another. Police said Robbins had a urine stain on his pants causing them to suspect he was drunk.

A witness told police they saw Robbins get out of his car and throw a bottle into a nearby bush. Police found it and discovered it was a nearly empty vodka bottle.

Officers had Robbins conduct a field sobriety test, which he failed, and they arrested him.

Burglary

The Ocean City Police Department charged Alexander Igor Cebotari, 36, of Ocean City Maryland, with two counts of fourth-degree burglary and two counts of malicious destruction of property, according to a police report.

On May, 9, around 1:20 a.m., a man approached an officer on patrol and told him someone was getting beat up, pointing towards some midtown apartments.

When they reached an apartment

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