FALMOUTH — A Falmouth Marine and Environmental Services officer suffered a concussion after allegedly being beaten while working a police detail Friday night in Woods Hole. Chuck Martinsen was working a paid detail at Landfall Restaurant on Luscombe Avenue when, at about 11 p.m., he was approached by a woman he knew who was in distress. The woman said she saw a man, Elijah Smith, whom she said she had a restraining order against, according to a police report. [...]
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Falmouth officer diagnosed with concussion after alleged beating
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Deal reached in Mashpee country club case
MASHPEE — New Seabury members and the management of the tony Mashpee country club have reached an agreement to end some of the legal wrangling over proposed changes to the club's membership structures.In April, four residents in the New Seabury neighborhood filed a motion to reopen a 1997 bankruptcy case in an attempt to stop changes being made to membership packages, which residents say would would increase their costs and reduce access to the facilities. The resolution of the [...]
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Hyannis man charged with night of domestic abuse
Charges include attempted murder, strangulation, kidnapping and mayhem.
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Falmouth judge placed on leave
Michael Creedon subject of complaint filed with Commission on Judicial Conduct.
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Hyannis woman charged in July attack
BARNSTABLE — A Hyannis woman has been arrested in connection with an attack that injured a man on July 26.Leah Sylvia, 21, is charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. She pleaded not guilty at Barnstable District Court on Tuesday.Sylvia and an unidentified male allegedly approached the victim at the corner of Washington Avenue and Louis Street in Hyannis, where the male knocked him to the ground and Sylvia struck the victim three times with a bat or [...]
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Marstons Mills man sentenced in OUI arrest
BARNSTABLE — A Marstons Mills man has been sentenced to six months in the Barnstable County Correctional Facility, suspended for two years, in connection with a third drunken driving arrest in February.Brian Chouinard, 59, pleaded guilty to the charge during a pretrial hearing at Barnstable District Court on Tuesday. The charge was subsequently amended to operating under the influence, second offense. In addition to the two-year probation period, Chouinard [...]
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Homeless man found with stolen $8K bicycle
BARNSTABLE — A homeless Hyannis man was arrested Tuesday after he was found in possession of a stolen Trek bicycle valued at approximately $8,300, a stolen wallet with a Home Depot credit card and a small quantity of heroin.Gregory McGuire, 32, pleaded not guilty to two charges of receiving stolen property, possession of a class A substance and credit card fraud during his arraignment at Barnstable District Court on Wednesday.A Barnstable Police detective apprehended [...]
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Update: Missing Alzheimer's patient in Dennis found
DENNIS — Police have found a man with Alzheimer's disease who was reported missing the morning. The man has been located, is safe and has been reunited with his family, Dennis police wrote in a statement issued at 2 p.m. William White, 82, had been missing since about 8:15 a.m.On Wednesday Dennis police launched an extensive search for a woman with Alzheimer's who was reported missing. She was found safe in Hyannis, according to police.
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Island woman pleads guilty to child endangerment
BARNSTABLE — A 27-year-old Nantucket woman pleaded guilty in Barnstable District Court on Thursday to a charge that she endangered her 3-month-old child by shaking and yelling profanities at the infant while they were on a Hy-Line ferry in December, according to court documents.Tammy Otts pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment of a child and was placed on two years of supervised probation. A charge of assault and battery on a family or household member was dropped during the [...]
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Larceny charges dropped against Falmouth man
FALMOUTH — The state will no longer prosecute a 40-year-old Falmouth man who was accused of stealing a gun and a toolbox in August 2015, according to Falmouth District Court documents.Shawn Oller was arrested after he allegedly broke into a truck in Falmouth and took the toolbox before going to the truck owner’s Norfolk home to take the gun. The victim owns homes in Norfolk and Falmouth, according to court records.“There is insufficient evidence to [...]
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Mashpee man sentenced in drug case
FALMOUTH — A 26-year-old Mashpee man pleaded guilty Friday in Falmouth District Court to a drug charge.William E. Branch, of 195 Falmouth Road, Apt. 19D, was sentenced to one year in jail, concurrent with a five-year state prison sentence imposed in June by a Barnstable Superior Court judge for an unrelated drug charge. Branch had also pleaded guilty in connection with his role in a 2014 stabbing at the Quarterdeck Lounge in Hyannis, for which he received probation to take [...]
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2 men plead guilty in attack, attempted robbery in Hyannis
BARNSTABLE — Two men pleaded guilty Friday in Barnstable District Court to attacking and attempting to rob another man on Main Street in Hyannis in March.Tyler Kennedy, 21, faced a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, for kicking the victim. He was sentenced to 18 months in the Barnstable County Correctional Facility, with six months to serve. Kennedy was given credit for 77 days served, according to the court clerk’s office. After his sentence is [...]
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Gay Yarmouth Port couple sue to have marriage recognized
Federal court action challenges Venezuela law.
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Cape police practice life-and-death decisions
Simulators help prepare for real-world dangers
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Falmouth family awarded $2.5M in near-drowning death
Jury finds owners of Econo Lodge in West Yarmouth responsible for conditions at pool that delayed rescue.
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4 face drug charges after Falmouth traffic stop
FALMOUTH — Three people pleaded not guilty to drug-related charges Monday in Falmouth District Court and a fourth man was scheduled to be arraigned in connection with the same traffic stop.On Sunday at 6:48 p.m., Bourne police stopped a car driving erratically on MacArthur Boulevard. The officer noticed two passengers moving suspiciously in the back seat, according to court records. Owen Y. Beaufils, 23, of East Falmouth, stuffed a bag of heroin in his buttocks, the [...]
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Driver charged with hitting two cruisers pleads not guilty
WELLFLEET — A West Roxbury woman charged with operating under the influence had five children in her car when she was pulled over by police Saturday night on Route 6.All of them avoided injury when another car crashed into two police cruisers at the scene.Kelley Tripp, 46, was pulled over just before midnight Saturday night because a Wellfleet police officer saw her Toyota Sienna cross the white fog line. Tripp told police she and her husband were returning from the [...]
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West Yarmouth man charged with 4th OUI
HYANNIS — A West Yarmouth man was charged with his fourth offense of drunken driving after a Massachusetts State Police trooper stopped him on Hinckley Road Thursday night.John Brady, 55, pleaded not guilty in Barnstable District Court Friday to one charge of OUI fourth or greater offense and OUI with a license suspended for OUI, according to court documents. On Thursday at 7:07 p.m., Brady, who was driving a gray pickup truck, passed a state police [...]
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Two men plead not guilty to multiple drug charges
HYANNIS — Two men pleaded not guilty to multiple drug charges Monday after Yarmouth police officers arrested them Friday for allegedly attempting to sell marijuana, according to Barnstable District Court Documents. Vanilson Monteiro, 21, of Boston, pleaded not guilty Monday to distribution of a class D drug, conspiracy to violate drug law and fugitive from justice on a court warrant, according to documents. Samael Mathieu, 19, of Brockton, pleaded not guilty to [...]
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Falmouth man charged in two assaults
FALMOUTH — An 18-year-old Falmouth man pleaded not guilty Monday in Falmouth District Court to assault charges in two different cases.Chad J. Geggatt was held in lieu of $1,000 cash bail in each of the two cases. He was arraigned on assault and battery with a dangerous weapon in one case and suffocation and assault and battery in the other case.On Saturday at 8 p.m., Geggatt was arrested after he struck a man with a metal or wooden object, records say. It was [...]
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