Police provide security tips at ‘first of many’ crime prevention workshops

“Make your house a fortress. Lock your doors, add lighting, check windows, and leave lights on.”
-- Sgt. Anthony DiSciascio, Somers Point police

SOMERS POINT – Members of the community were encouraged to openly communicate with police during a crime prevention workshop Wednesday night, Feb. 15 in the City Hall courtroom.

“No one knows your neighborhood like you do. If you see something suspicious, call us. We are here to be bothered,” Police Chief Michael Boyd told participants who packed the courtroom. “This is the start of an open dialog.”

In this circa 1930 photo, U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Jim Turner, left, captain of the Longport Beach Patrol, stands on the beach in Ocean City with friend Ed Stetser of Longport, center, and an unidentified man.

LONGPORT – It has been almost 80 years since a rescue attempt at sea claimed the lives of five U.S. Coast Guard surfmen – the only members ever lost out of the Atlantic City Station.

The Coast Guard will honor the crew and the lone survivor of that attempt, Capt. Jim Turner of Longport, with a ceremony at the Kretchmer Pavilion on March 6, the anniversary of the incident.

On that day in 1932, a three-man crew went out into frigid water to aid the crew of the fishing ship Anna, which was in trouble in high seas and battering winds 2 miles off Steel Pier.

A nor’easter had dumped 28 inches of snow on the city, and the winds were reported to be gusting up to 64 miles per hour, according to the Atlantic City Evening Union.

OCEAN CITY – Ocean City High School was deemed safe and secure and students returned to classes about 12:45 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, according to police.

The school was placed on lockdown for more than two hours after a threatening note was discovered in a boy’s restroom about 10:15 a.m.

SWAT personnel, hostage negotiators and Ocean City Police officers gather Tuesday on 14th Street, a few houses east of the crime scene.

Police, SWAT team, hostage negotiators respond to suicide threat

OCEAN CITY — A letter from an 82-year-old man to his family, promising he would be dead by the time they received it, triggered a massive police response Tuesday, Feb. 21, in the 100 block of 14th Street.

Three hours after the concerned family contacted the Ocean City Police Department, Capt. Steve Ang confirmed the man was dead.