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The Dispatch/Maryland Coast Dispatch
October 4, 2013
18-Month Jail Term Handed To Summer Hit-And-Run Suspect
By SHAWN J. SOPER
NEWS EDITOR
OCEAN CITY – An Illinois man, arrested in July on numerous criminal and traffic charges after a twostate, high-speed chase, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and resisting arrest in District Court in Ocean City Friday and was sentenced to 18 months in jail. Brion Adam Kriss, 24, of Frankfort, Ill., appeared in District Court in Ocean City on Friday to face 30 total charges including second-degree assault, resisting arrest, causing harm or death to a law enforcement animal and carrying a concealed dangerous weapon along with 24 traffic charges stemming from the bizarre incident on July 17. The incident began with a hitand-run accident in Rehoboth Beach, included a high-speed chase through Delaware beach towns and into Ocean City, where at least three more hit-and-run incidents occurred along Coastal Highway before the suspect crashed on Coastal Highway near 116th Street and then fled on foot. Ocean City Police and allied law enforcement agencies then tracked Kriss into the marsh area behind the Gold Coast Mall where the suspect continued to fight with police and attempted to drown a police K-9 dog
before ultimately being subdued with a Taser and taken into custody after a few hours. Kriss last Friday pleaded guilty to one count each of second-degree assault and resisting arrest and was sentenced to 18 months in jail. The remaining criminal counts and the 24 traffic counts were not prosecuted as a result of the plea agreement. Around 10:30 a.m. on July 17, the Sussex County Communications Center alerted the OCPD that Delaware authorities were on the lookout for a motorist who had reportedly been involved in a hit-andrun incident with an unoccupied car in Rehoboth Beach. The driver, later identified as Kriss, had eluded police in Delaware until he had crossed over into Ocean City, where authorities were able to “catch up” to the vehicle. During the initial phases of the pursuit, it was learned Kriss was in possession of a large knife, which he had displayed at some point during the chase in Delaware. Kriss attempted to evade the Sussex County authorities pursuing him by turning onto 134th Street and heading toward the ocean. Delaware officers then picked up the chase again in the area of northbound 133rd Street, where Kriss SEE NEXT PAGE
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