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Print Edition Highlights - April 6, 2023
Tony Jay Saunders
Mary Lou Bytof
Truth definitely is stranger than fiction. Just three days after April Fools Day, Carroll Township Police apprehended a naked Florida man after they pursued him while he drove a pilfered school bus for approximately nine miles north on U.S. Route 15 during the morning rush hour. The bus was unoccupied except for the driver and a dead deer in the back.
Prior to the chase, CTPD Officer Elias Martinez was on patrol near the Dillsburg Giant at approximately 7:52 Tuesday morning when he spotted the school bus in the shopping center parking lot. According to Sgt. David Smith of the CTPD, the department was notified that a school bus was taken in Abbottstown, Adams County, and reportedly was headed toward Dillsburg.
Martinez called for backup and Officers Terry Williams and Sean Jaquith eventually caught up with him on the highway, Sgt. Smith said. They followed the bus as it wove in and out of traffic.
“Although the suspect was driving erratically, his speed was not excessive and he was not running cars off the road,” Sgt. Smith said.
The pursuit continued on the highway just past the Capital City Mall. Then the driver, Tony Jay Saunders, Jr., 24, of Port Saint Lucie, Fla. veered off the highway, crossed a berm, exited down a grassy embankment and almost overturned the bus, Sgt. Smith said.
It was then that three CTPD policemen and officers from Lower Allen Township left the highway and located the abandoned school bus. By the time the police arrived, the driver had fled on foot.
Witnesses who saw the driver exit the bus described him as a young black man who was wearing a black sweatshirt, Sgt. Smith said. When the police caught up to the man; however, he had shed all his clothes and was buck naked.
Officer Martinez arrested the suspect, took him into custody, and transported him to a York County booking center where charges were filed. According to court dockets, Magistrate Judge Richard T. Thomas charged Saunders with the following offenses: fleeing or attempting to allude an officer, receiving stolen property, reckless driving, and resisting arrest/other law enforce.
Judge Thomas set bail at $100,000. Unable to post bail, Saunders is being held in the York County Prison.
Because of the multi-county chase, Saunders may be facing charges in Adams and Cumberland Counties as well.
Shortly after midnight on Tuesday morning, State Police in Adams County had a run-in with the suspect in Oxford Township. Troopers stopped a BMW with a Florida license plate on Lincoln Highway East as part of a burglary investigation from the previous day. They interviewed Saunders about items that were inside the car. The items matched the description of things taken in a burglary of a Rutters store. Saunders told the police that he obtained the items from a junk yard. When a trooper tried to open a car door, the suspect drove away.
According to reports, the troopers followed Saunders until the suspect left the vehicle after he could not maneuver it on railroad tracks. He escaped into a heavily wooded area behind the vacant Cross Keys Motel near New Oxford.
Saunders told police that he took the school bus after he had abandoned the BMW. As for the deer in the back of the school bus, Saunders told police officers that he was going to use it to fertilize his garden.
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NORTHERN YORK COUNTY SCHOOL DiSTRICT
Carolyn Hoffman
Sixty million dollars in school renovations took an important step towards fruition at the March 28 meeting of the Northern York School District School Board.
The board approved an agreement with the architectural firm Schrader Group Architecture to proceed with creating detailed drawings and plans from which bid documents will be developed. The current plans call for an estimated $45 million renovation of the Northern Middle School and $15 renovation of Northern Elementary School.
The goal of the renovations includes a plan to improve traffic flow during arrival and dismissal for both bus and parent drop offs at both schools. A new entrance to the elementary school for handicapped access is on the preliminary plans. A new wing is planned on one side of the elementary school. The middle school renovation includes filling in the existing courtyard and well as possibly a new gym.
The next steps include schematic drawings of the proposed plans as well as to find out if a traffic study will be needed. Also planned is a sketch plan of the campus for the land development plan to submit to Carroll Township.
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Marc Smith, owner of Oars Capital in Dillsburg, started the company solo in 2012.
Chanty Webb
What started out as a favor helping his dad investigate financial opportunities upon retirement became Marc Smith’s lucrative business and rewarding career.
Smith, owner of Oars Capital in Dillsburg, started the company solo in 2012.
“I got an MBA from Cornell and was working on Wall Street, and that was kind of my path—my background is much more in security analysis… working a lot of mergers and acquisitions when I was in New York,” he said.
However, when Smith’s father was retiring and asked him to manage his retirement money, it turned the younger Smith’s attention to the investment market, which led him to find someone who was looking for a new partner in his firm. After working with him for a few years, Smith decided that he wanted to start his own firm.
“I saw this spot in the market where there were a lot of people that have a decent amount of money, not multiple millions of dollars but a couple hundred thousand to a few million dollars, that they’re just massively underserved by with the bigger firms,” Smith said.
These individuals still have a lot of complexity in their lives and still need help managing their finances; however, coming from a bigger firm, he knew that they didn’t have an interest in these “smaller” clients. He saw as an opportunity to serve these very individuals.
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