Delaware News Journal
An Elkton, Maryland, woman is accused of setting multiple fires inside her home while someone was still inside and then watching her handiwork from a lawn chair. She has been charged with arson and attempted murder, the Maryland State Fire Marshal s office announced.
The Thursday incident occurred less than a mile from the Delaware state line on Cherry Lane, not far from the border intersection of Fletchwood and Elkton roads just west of the University of Delaware.
Fire officials say they were called to the residence Thursday around 1:15 p.m.
Witnesses told investigators that Gail J. Metwally, 47, set multiple fires in the home and then watched from a chair on the front lawn before walking away from the scene, the fire marshal s office said.
ELKTON â Investigators have filed arson and attempted murder charges against a woman who allegedly torched her occupied home near Elkton on Thursday afternoon, gutting the house and displacing herself and three other adults who lived there, according to the Maryland Office of the State Fire Marshal.
Charging documents allege that the suspect â Gail J. Metwally, 47 â remained on the property and watched for several minutes after intentionally setting fire to the house in the unit block of Cherry Lane, which is a short distance away from Fletchwood Road, northeast of Elkton.
âVideo footage and witness statements provided that Metwally set fire within the dwelling and then retreated to the front yard. She then sat down on a chair and watched the fire progress. She is observed saying, âHasta-la-vista, Bitch,â in one of the videos while the fire is observed within the dwelling,â court records allege.
ELKTON - A man is facing numerous charges after investigators confiscated 401 baggies holding suspect heroin mixed with fentanyl, in addition to bags containing other purported drugs, while raiding his guest room at a motel in Elkton, according to the Cecil County Sheriff s Office.
Investigators identified the suspect as James Jamar Jordan, a 37-year-old North East resident who goes by Country as a nickname, reported Lt. Michael Holmes, a CCSO spokesman.Â
CCSO s Street Level Crimes Unit investigators raided Jordan s room - Room 118 - at the Deluxe Inn in the 600 block of East Pulaski Highway (Route 40) on Thursday, with the assistance of Cecil County Drug Task Force agents, Maryland State Police Apprehension Team members and CCSO patrol deputies, Holmes said.
ELKTON â A North East man was sentenced to time served â slightly more than 15 months â after a jury found him guilty of three counts of simple drug possession at the conclusion of a half-day trial on Wednesday.
During his testimony on Wednesday morning, the defendant, Lamont E. Hall, 47, admitted ownership of a bag of crystal meth, a baggie of raw heroin and nine bundles of heroin mixed with fentanyl â all of which investigators had found during a pat-down search of him in the parking lot of the 7-Eleven in the 200 block of East Pulaski Highway (Route 40) at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Jan. 9, 2020.