DelawareLive Feb 26

Delaware LIVE Weekly Review – Feb. 26, 2023

Sonja FreyDelaware Live, Weekly Review

Click on the image below to view as a PDF This Week’s Top Headlines Include: Headlines Brandywine program preps special needs students for workforce  DoMore24: Your chance to help nonprofits you like Learning Collab hires DSU, Empower Schools to manage projects Culture New history trail documents Iron Hill’s free Black families Sussex community event hopes to pack, donate 150,000 meals …

secret bunker

Wife of Bear man who built secret bunker goes to jail, too

Betsy PriceHeadlines, Government

The wife of a Bear man who built a secret underground bunker to grow marijuana may not be able to go to jail with him, but she’s going. Shakira Martinez has been sentenced in federal court to nine years in prison for money laundering, conspiracy to commit money laundering, and structuring bank transactions following a jury verdict in July of …

Bear man with secret bunker sentenced to 45 years in prison

Drug smuggler with secret bunker in Bear jailed for 45 years

Staff WriterGovernment, Headlines

  A Delaware man who made $1 million from smuggling cocaine and built a secret bunker under his house in Bear was sentenced this week in U.S. District Court to 45 years in prison . Omar Morales Colon, 45, had been convicted of conspiracy to commit money laundering, conspiracy to distribute cocaine, and various other drug and money laundering offenses. …