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inexcusable,” interim police chief
William Lowry said in the news
release.
County Executive Steuart
Pittman (D) said investigators
will pursue any potential
evidence of other crimes or
misconduct by Miskill.
Police ask anyone with
information to call their tip line at
410-222-4700 or the o ffice of
professional standards at 410-
222-8740.
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adult male. Police said the driver
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charged with theftAn Anne Arundel County
police officer was arrested
Saturday and charged with
stealing firearms and other
property while on the job in April,
authorities said.
Cpl. Jacob Miskill, who has
been with the department for five
years, i s alleged to have stolen
guns and other property valued at
more than $1,500 while
responding to a call for an
unattended death at a P asadena
residence.
In a n ews release posted on
Facebook, Anne Arundel police
said officials learned about
Miskill ’s alleged misconduct on
Friday. Police served a s earch
warrant at Miskill’s home
Saturday. He was suspended
without pay and charged with
misconduct in office, theft, and
three counts of burglary.
“This officer’s criminal actions
tarnish the badge worn by every
Anne Arundel County police
officer and the actions areLOCAL DIGESTand bottles out of the trash to
recycle them properly.
Then Sallie heard that fines
were going to be levied against
households that didn’t recycle.
She crafted a letter from the
waste removal company to their
household saying it had come to
their attention that the family
had not been recycling. If they
continued to mix recycling in
with the trash, they would have
to pay a $50 fine.
“I slipped it into our mail and
my husband read it,” wrote Sallie,
of Vienna.
He was outraged — convinced
that one of their neighbors had
ratted him out — b ut he stopped
throwing away the bottles,
newspapers and cans.
“Mission accomplished!”
wrote Sallie.
About five years later, the
couple was at a d inner with
neighbors when the issue of
recycling came up. Sallie’s
husband bitterly recounted how
one of the other neighbors had
turned him in for mixing
recycling in with the trash.
“They looked at him like he
was crazy,” Sallie wrote. “I could
not keep a straight face and
started laughing. The lightbulb
went off in his head and he
looked at me with amazement
and said, ‘You wrote that letter,
didn’t you?!’
“I fessed up and we all had a
good laugh at my trickery and
still do to this day.”
Tomorrow: More tales of
deceit.
[email protected]
Twitter: @johnkelly For previous columns, visit
washingtonpost.com/john-kelly.were both sent to the north of
England for their jobs.
“We rented a lovely house with
beautiful views of the rolling
hills, with their patch-work quilt
of brilliant green pasture land,”
wrote Rich, who now lives in
Edgewater, Md.
The views may have been
sublime, but the kitchen was
somewhat spartan. Most
annoying of all was the tiny and
troublesome refrigerator.
“It had a lock-tight seal that
was tighter than any Egyptian
king’s tomb,” he wrote. Opening
it involved holding the frame of
the refrigerator while prying the
door open.
One day, Rich tried to just
open the door normally. In an
instant, the door handle broke
off completely.
Rich was left staring in
disbelief at the severed handle in
his hand. He glued it back on and
returned to the tedious, careful,
fail-safe method of opening the
fridge.
Several weeks later, his wife
went to open the fridge and
wound up ripping off the door
handle.
“Now,” Rich wrote, “I could
have said, ‘Don’t worry about it,
because I broke it off a while ago
and used super glue to re-attach
it.’ ”
Instead, he kept his mouth
shut and said, “Don’t worry
about it. We will get it repaired.”
Wrote Rich: “It’s been 27 years
since then and it’s still my little
secret.”
When recycling was
introduced in Fairfax County,
Sallie had a tough time getting
her husband to buy into it. She
was constantly pulling his cansquarters” — i s very particular
about the way he sleeps: The top
sheet and blanket must be
untucked. Shari, on the other
hand, likes the bedclothes tucked
in at the end of the bed.
“We’ve compromised over the
years with his half untucked, and
my half tucked in,” she wrote.
The problem is, with nothing
to tether her boyfriend’s half of
the covers, they migrate to
Shari’s side of the bed.
“The top sheet hangs all the
way to the floor on my side, and
he says I steal the covers,” she
wrote.
So about six months ago, Shari
started putting the corner of his
half of the top sheet underneath
the leg of the platform bed frame.“It’s just enough material to
hold onto the sheet and keep it
and the covers in place,” she
wrote. “The rest of his half is
untucked, billowy, free.”
The last person out of bed
makes the bed, which is almost
always Shari, allowing her to
keep up the subterfuge.
Wrote Shari: “I think if he
knew the sheet were held in
place, just the thought of it
would inhibit his sleep, and I rue
the day that he discovers my
deep dark secret.”
In 1993, Rich and his wifeWasn’t it
Shakespeare
who wrote, “Oh,
what a tangled
web we weave,
when first we
practice to
deceive”?
No. It was Sir
Walter Scott. If I
told you it was Shakespeare, I’d
be lying.
Lying just happens to be the
subject of this column. Well, not
lying , exactly. More like not
telling the truth.
More readers responded to my
call for examples from their own
lives. They include Frank , who in
1993 bought a used Harley
Davidson. He did not inform his
wife of this purchase. He kept the
motorcycle at work so he could
ride it on Saturdays.
If the missis happened to
show up at his place of
employment while he was
cruising on his secret bike,
Frank’s employees would text
him the code “666.”
This went on for three years.
“Then at a C hristmas party, a
friend spilled the beans and I
was left backstroking,” wrote
Frank, who lives in Annapolis.
Several years later, Frank
submitted this tale to a
Washington radio station and
won its contest for the best “Why
I Don’t Deserve My Loved One”
story.
Last June, Frank and his wife
celebrated their 42nd
anniversary — “ but she still
hasn’t totally forgiven me,” he
wrote.
Shari lives in D.C. Her
POSSLQ — t hat’s “person of the
opposite sex sharing living
Reader confessions: Caught — or not — in a white lie
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Kelly's
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“I rue the day that
he discovers my deep
dark secret.”
Shari, a D.C. resident who has been
tampering with the bedsheetsBY MARTIN WEIL
AND KATIE METTLERA 12-year-old Suitland boy was
shot and killed late Friday when a
gun went off in the downstairs
bedroom of a home in the Indian
Head area of Charles County.
The boy a nd a 13-year-old rela-
tive were playing with the gun
when it discharged, striking the
12-year-old, the county sheriff’s
office said.
About 11:15 p.m., officers were
called to a house in the 100 block
of Riverwatch Drive, a quiet
street that runs near the Potomac
River about 30 miles south of the
District. They found the 12-year-
old, who had been visiting the
home, suffering from a gunshot
wound.
The of ficers and family mem-
bers performed cardiopulmo-nary resuscitation until para-
medics arrived, but the boy died,
the sheriff’s of fice said.
Neither boy was identified.
Further details about the gun
and how the boys obtained it
were under investigation, along
with the circumstances of the
shooting and other aspects of the
matter, the sheriff’s of fice said.
“This is such a tragic situation
and a very sad reminder that it is
critically important for gun own-
ers to ensure their firearms are
always secured and out of reach
of children,” Sheriff Troy D. Berry
said. “Our thoughts and prayers
are with the families.”
After an investigation, the mat-
ter will be presented for review to
the county state’s attorney’s of-
fice, the sheriff’s of fice said.
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[email protected]MARYLANDGun goes o≠, kills boy
they’ve denied our requests for
that,” she said. “It looks like peo-
ple will lose their benefits.”
Those who can’t use the online
application, which Taylor-Lowe
says will be available by Septem-
ber, will need to come to a D.C.
service center in person to recer-
tify. Taylor-Lowe said the depart-
ment is working on figuring out
how to observe social distancing
processes in the offices as much
as possible.
The problem is even more im-
mediate in Maryland, where the
first recipients could lose their
benefits on Sept. 1, a month be-
fore D.C. and Virginia residents.
The USDA denied the waiver that
Maryland requested even for the
month of August, Maryland De-
partment of Human Services
spokeswoman Katherine Morris
said. D.C. did receive a waiver for
August.
More than 830,000 Maryland
residents receive SNAP benefits.
“The loss of any SNAP waiver
would adversely impact our abili-
ty to assist those Marylanders
who are particularly vulnerable
during this pandemic,” Morris
wrote in an email. “As a nation,
we must take every action within
our control to ensure this health
crisis does not become a food
security crisis.”
[email protected]Some states have long offered a
remote option for SNAP recipi-
ents to recertify; in Virginia, De-
partment of Social Services staff
member Cletisha Lovelace said
that recipients have been able to
apply through an online form
plus a telephone interview since
2012.
While 39,000 Virginians will
be required to recertify in Sep-
tember or lose their benefits,
Lovelace said, those residents
will have the option to apply
without going to a service center
in person, which could pose a
coronavirus risk. Virginia did not
request a waiver to continue past
August.
But the end of the USDA waiv-
ers appears to have caught D.C.
off guard. Taylor-Lowe said her
department has rushed to create
a mobile app and an online plat-
form that recipients can use in
place of the regular office visit.
Even if that effort is successful,
some people don’t have the tech-
nology needed to scan or photo-
graph documents, and Taylor-
Lowe said she worries that others
will simply assume that they
don’t have to recertify until the
pandemic is over — and will
inadvertently lose their benefits.
“We thought they would just
keep waiving the requirement
until the end of the pandemic, butshould have been enough time for
states to set up the process virtu-
ally a nd that it is important that
benefit recipients continue to
prove their income.“USDA provided this flexibility
at the beginning of the pandemic
to allow states to adjust to an
influx of new applications and
need to design new protocols to
support social distancing and
telework,” she wrote. “The recer-
tification process is vital to ensur-
ing SNAP families are still eligible
to receive SNAP and receive the
proper level of benefits. USDA is
working with states to return to a
new normal.”documents showing everything
about their financial life — pay
stubs, bank statements, leases,
utility bills and more — and bring
them to the waiting room at a
government service center.
There, a government interviewer
looks it all over to determine
whether the family will keep re-
ceiving SNAP benefits.
When the coronavirus pan-
demic began, the USDA halted
those visits and promised that
everyone who gets federal fund-
ing to pay for groceries would
keep receiving it during the crisis
without needing to recertify.
With that reprieve ending,
state governments are scram-
bling to figure out how to make
sure needy families keep getting
grocery money during an eco-
nomic downturn, without crowd-
ing them into waiting rooms
where they could catch the virus.
The D.C. Department of Hu-
man Services, which administers
the SNAP program in the District,
asked the USDA for a waiver to
keep putting off recertifications
and was told that there would be
no waivers past August.
A USDA spokeswoman said in
an email to The Washington Post
that the six months of waivers,
from March through August,
FOOD STAMPS FROM B1
O∞cials fear U.S. move may hurt SNAP recipients
“We thought they would
just keep waiving the
requirement until the
end of the pandemic,
but they’ve denied our
requests for that.”
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