POLICE BRIEFS
Juveniles arrested
Maryland State Police arrested two 17- year-olds on May 10, after officers found drugs in their vehicle during a traffic stop.
The teens, both from Snow Hill, were charged with possession of marijuana.
Officers stopped the pair's vehicle on Harrison Road in Berlin for a traffic violation. An officer detected the odor of suspected marijuana, according to the report, and searched the vehicle. Suspected marijuana was found inside the vehicle, along with two small plastic bags of suspected artificial marijuana.
The teens were arrested and released to their parents pending action from juvenile services.
Assault
Ocean City police arrested a 24-year-old woman May 10, for assaulting a police officer.
Kathy Ann Pettyjohn of Georgetown, Del., was charged with second-degree assault.
STAKES
Police were at a local nightclub around 1:30 a.m. as members of the security staff were asking people to leave the property. Pettyjohn allegedly began screaming that the staff was racist because they would not let her friends into the bar.
When a police officer asked Pettyjohn to stop yelling, she allegedly hit him in the chest and started to walk away.
Drug investigation
The Ocean City Police Department arrested three people at the end of a yearlong drug investigation.
Claiton Marques Pacheco, 38, of Ocean City, was charged with seven counts of cocaine distribution, eight counts of possession of cocaine and one counts of possession of crack cocaine. Paul Joseph Young III, 27, of Edgewater, Md., and Ashleigh Ann Smith, 30, of Ocean City, were charged with possession of crack cocaine and possession of paraphernalia.
Pacheco was the primary suspect in the investigation, police said. On May 7, police executed a search warrant at Pacheco's 43rd Street home, where all three suspects were located.
Police seized crack cocaine and drug paraphernalia from the home. Pacheco was held at the Worcester County Jail on a $200,000 bond and Smith was held on a $5,000 bond. Smith also had an outstanding arrest warrant from Anne Arundel County.
Young was released on his own recognizance.
