Day: August 28, 2024

**UPDATE** The Dover Police Department is cancelling the Gold Alert for Lamar Williams. Williams has been located and is safe.

Incident/Complaint#:  50-24-31665

Date:  Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 at 09:30 a.m.

Location: South State Street and South DuPont Highway, Dover, DE

Officer Releasing Information:  Master Corporal Ryan Schmid, Public Information Officer

Narrative: The Dover Police Department has issued a Gold Alert for Lamar Williams, 44, of Magnolia. Williams was last seen in the area of South DuPont Highway and South State Street at approximately 9:00 a.m. Wednesday and he has not been seen since. Attempts to contact or locate him have been unsuccessful, and there is a concern for his safety and well-being. Williams is described as a black male, 5’10”, 300 pounds. It is unknown what he was wearing at the time. If you have any information on Williams’ whereabouts, please call 302-736-7111.

Incident/Complaint#:  50-24-31665

Date:  Wednesday, August 28th, 2024 at 09:30 a.m.

Location: South State Street and South DuPont Highway, Dover, DE

Officer Releasing Information:  Master Corporal Ryan Schmid, Public Information Officer

Narrative: The Dover Police Department has issued a Gold Alert for Lamar Williams, 44, of Magnolia. Williams was last seen in the area of South DuPont Highway and South State Street at approximately 9:00 a.m. Wednesday and he has not been seen since. Attempts to contact or locate him have been unsuccessful, and there is a concern for his safety and well-being. Williams is described as a black male, 5’10”, 300 pounds. It is unknown what he was wearing at the time. If you have any information on Williams’ whereabouts, please call 302-736-7111.

The Dover Police Department participated in a multi agency warrant round up on Tuesday, which led to multiple arrests.  Beginning in the early morning hours of Tuesday, August 27th, officers from the Dover Police Department, Delaware Probation and Parole, and Delaware Department of Corrections, worked together to apprehend persons with outstanding warrants for their arrest.  The operation was a success, with 15 persons being arrested on numerous criminal charges as well as several capias’ issued by courts across the state. 

As part of this operation, Jakeel Young, 28, and Hakeem Gibson, 28, both of Dover, were taken into custody at a residence in the 400 block of Court Street Dover, DE for outstanding warrants. While at the residence, officers located a loaded stolen Sentry Arms 9mm Draco pistol, a loaded Smith and Wesson 9mm handgun, 61 doses of oxycodone, 7 doses of doxycycline, 3 doses of buprenorphine, and 208.9 grams of promethazine.

Both men were transported to Dover Police Department where they were processed and arraigned.

Young was committed to SCI on $16,000 cash bail on the following charges:
-Possession of a Large Capacity Magazine
-Possession of a Firearm/ammunition by a Person Prohibited (3x)
-Receiving a Stolen Firearm

Gibson was committed to SCI on $14,000 secured bail on the following charges:
-Possession of a Large Capacity Magazine
-Possession with Intent to Deliver a Controlled Substance (5x)
-Possession of a Controlled Substance
-Possession of Drug Paraphernalia

Both suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

The Dover Police Department would like to thank the Delaware Department of Corrections and Delaware Probation and Parole for their assistance.