School board certifies nine schools to serve free meals

Continued from Page 57 tary School, Snow Hill Middle School, Cedar Chapel Special School, Buckingham Elementary School, and Berlin Intermediate School.

“With this program, these schools are able to serve breakfast and lunch at no cost to the enrolled students,” Collins said.

Collins noted that all nine certified schools are currently serving free breakfast, with eight of the schools also serving dinner.

“What we’re really doing here is adding another piece to the puzzle, offering these schools free lunch,” he said.

Superintendent Lou Taylor recommended that the board approve enrolling the nine CEP certified schools into the program beginning in the 2023-24 school year.

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The man told police he had been trying to break up a fight between Truitt and another man, and hadn’t hit Truitt. Truitt allegedly ran up to them again, and police decided to arrest Truitt.

Officers grabbed Truitt and he reportedly lunged away and resisted the arrest.

Police “utilized a takedown,” brought Truitt to the ground and then handcuffed him.

Police said Alexis Truitt screamed at Noah Truitt about him being arrested as police escorted him away. Officers asked her to stop yelling but she continued, the report said.

When they tried to place Alexis Truitt under arrest, she allegedly threw a punch at an officer but missed. Police pushed her to the ground and put her in handcuffs, though it took about four police officers to overcome her, according to the report.

Assault

The OCPD charged Julian David Earl, 18, of Williamstown, New Jersey, with malicious destruction of property, and assault, according to a police report.

On July 18, around 11 p.m., police responded to First Street on the Boardwalk for a report of a fight. There, officers stopped Earl, who was the suspect, and sat him on a bench. They noted he was bleeding from a cut on his eyebrow.

Police met with the owner of a Boardwalk business, who told officers that Earl came into the store drunk and started arguing with staff. Workers and the owner told him to leave several times before he finally stepped outside on the Boardwalk, but continued yelling, they said.

The owner said Earl grabbed the owner’s phone and threw it on the ground, then hit him in the face. A bystander came and fought off Earl, the owner told police.

The owner’s phone screen was cracked.

Earl complained to police that the business’s employee had been flirting with his girlfriend, and police could tell he was drunk.

Witnesses confirmed the story, and police arrested Earl.

Concealed weapon

Lakisha Shenee Simpson, 32, of Salisbury, received 18 charges from the OCPD, including disorderly conduct, possession of a controlled dangerous substance and possession on a concealed dangerous weapon, according to a police report.

On July 19, around 3:30 p.m., police saw Simpson driving a Jeep Renegade that stopped over a white stop line at an intersection near the 100 block of 30th Street.

Police pulled over Simpson at the intersection of 26th Street and Baltimore Avenue. When police met Simpson she allegedly argued with police over the reason for the stop, then rolled up her window and refused to speak with officers.

Police asked repeatedly for Simpson’s license then she reportedly rolled down her window and yelled at them.

Officers found that Simpson had been stopped in May and June for driving on a suspended license. They found her license was still suspended.

A police supervisor arrived and Simpson started yelling at them, officers wrote.

Simpson eventually gave police some car registration papers but refused to provide a license. The car was registered to another person, police said.

Police arrested Simpson for disorderly conduct.

Officers searched Simpson’s bag and found a spring-loaded knife.

The Jeep had Virginia plates, and using the car’s VIN number, police found that the Marylander registration was suspended.

Officers searched the car to find a bottle containing 18 pills of oxycodone hydrochloride, a controlled dangerous substance, and they also found a steak knife in the glove box.

Burglary

Police charged Kamden Lee Shauf, 20, of Chambersburg, Pennsylvania with fourth-degree burglary after he broke through a window into an occupied house, according to a police report

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