Spokeswoman Jessica Waters took to the Ocean City Police Department's Twitter feed Thursday to issue a public service announcement to its followers: "Word to the wise ... Smoking pot in the parking lot of the Public Safety Building may land you in jail!" The warning issued is one most would consider self-explanatory, but it came on the heels of OCPD officers catching three men doing just that at about 8 a.m. on Tuesday.
Ocean City Police house their headquarters at the building. An officer was getting off a midnight shift and, while walking back to the 65th Street building after putting some things in her personal vehicle, smelled marijuana coming from a black Hyundai with its windows down and three men inside. Officers approached Cranberry, Pa. residents Vance Austin Embry, 19, Wayne Michael Jelinek and Julian Dominick Jordano, 19, and ordered them to exit the vehicle.
While searching the vehicle, officers located several bags of marijuana, paraphernalia and dextroamphetamine -- a drug commonly used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy. Having someone arrested for smoking pot in the police headquarters parking lot is a first for as long as Waters can recall, she said. "Every now and then you have a 'wow moment,' and that was definitely a 'wow moment,' as Oprah would say," Waters said.
Embry was charged with possession of marijuana and three counts of possession of paraphernalia, while Jelinek and Jordano were charged with possession of a dextroamphetamine. Jelinek had been charged the same day with second-degree assault and affray. Those charges spurred from a different incident.
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