FALMOUTH — A 40-year-old East Falmouth man pleaded not guilty Monday in Falmouth District Court to assaulting a woman Sunday afternoon inside a Falmouth home.Police were called to the home where they were told that Michael Melvin had argued with the victim, knocked her down on the bed, threw her phone at her, choked her and destroyed her phone, according to a police report. Friends were at the house and witnessed some of the alleged attack, the report says.Melvin [...]
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East Falmouth man charged with assault
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Harwich Port man charged with OUI after head-on crash
ORLEANS – A 49-year-old Harwich Port man pleaded not guilty to drunk driving and other motor vehicle charges after he allegedly drove on the wrong side of the road and hit another vehicle head-on Aug. 20 on Depot Street near Center Street.James Craig was flown to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston with serious injuries after the crash, which occurred at about 2:25 p.m., according to a police report. Craig was still under probation for a June 2017 drunk driving [...]
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Woman pleads not guilty to kicking police officer outside Hyannis bar
BARNSTABLE — A Kingston woman pleaded not guilty Monday in Barnstable District Court to kicking a police officer outside a bar on Main Street in Hyannis on Friday night, according to court documents.Angela Licciardi , 46, pleaded not guilty to assault and battery on a police officer, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct, according to documents.Barnstable police arrested Licciardi at around 11:20 p.m. Friday after she was causing a [...]
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Eastham woman charged with OUI, damaging cruiser
BARNSTABLE — An Eastham woman pleaded not guilty Monday in Barnstable District Court to multiple charges after allegedly breaking free of her handcuffs and causing damage to the back of a police cruiser during an arrest for alleged drunk driving on Sunday, according to court documents.Anna Orcutt , 38, pleaded not guilty to wanton destruction of property of more than $250, disorderly conduct, operating under the influence of liquor, negligent operation of a motor [...]
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Centerville man pleads not guilty to OUI after allegedly crashing into cruiser
BARNSTABLE — A 27-year-old Centerville man pleaded not guilty Monday in Barnstable District Court to operating under the influence of liquor, second offense, after crashing his car into a police cruiser Saturday night, according to court documents and police.Martin Lannan also pleaded not guilty to negligent operation of a motor vehicle and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, the documents say.Shortly after 9 p.m., Lannan rear-ended a police cruiser parked at a [...]
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Provincetown woman charged with assaulting police officer
Woman charged with assaulting police officerORLEANS – A 66-year-old Provincetown woman pleaded not guilty Monday in Orleans District Court to drunk driving, assault and battery on a police officer and other charges after her neighbors allegedly reported her driving erratically.Leslie Parsons had to be pepper-sprayed after allegedly resisting arrest, according to a police report.At 7:15 Sunday night, police responded to a call of a woman driving erratically and [...]
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Mashpee woman gets probation in drug ring
BOSTON — A Mashpee woman was sentenced to five years of probation Monday in connection with her involvement in a drug distribution and money laundering ring, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice.Diane Johnson, 51, a former procurement officer for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, will serve the first six months of her probation in home detention, according to the statement. She had pleaded guilty in May in U.S. District Court to one count of money [...]
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Crash closes Route 134 in South Dennis
SOUTH DENNIS — Route 134 was closed Monday night near the Dennis Police Department headquarters and traffic was being diverted to Old Bass River Road via Bob Crowell Road and Old Chatham Road after a car crashed into a pole in front of Agway of Cape Cod, according to the Dennis Police Department Facebook page.No further information about the crash was immediately available, according to a police department dispatcher. The road remained closed as of 8:45 p.m.One [...]
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Driver charged after allegedly fleeing from West Barnstable crash
WEST BARNSTABLE — A driver was arrested after allegedly fleeing the scene of a crash Monday afternoon, according to Barnstable police Lt. John Murphy.Tiffany Ferrier, 32, of West Barnstable, was charged with leaving the scene of a motor vehicle accident with property damage, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, Murphy said. The passenger of the car was put in protective custody for being intoxicated, he said.Ferrier's car went off the road and struck a [...]
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Hyannis woman charged with assaulting police officer
BARNSTABLE — A Hyannis woman pleaded not guilty Tuesday in Barnstable District Court to a charge of assault and battery on a police officer.Amy Grass, 45, also pleaded not guilty to resisting arrest, according to court documents.On Monday at 9:35 p.m., police responded to Grass's residence for a medical call, according to a police report. When they arrived, Grass was highly intoxicated, and officers placed her in protective custody believing she posed a danger to [...]
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Falmouth judge sets $100K bail in heroin case
New Bedford woman ordered held on trafficking charge.
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Hyannis man arrested on drug trafficking charges
YARMOUTH — Yarmouth police seized nearly 90 grams of heroin and cocaine Monday night after arresting a suspected drug trafficker in a supermarket parking lot, according to a statement from the Police Department.Officers Sean Geary and Christopher Van Ness saw Gilver Jimenez, 29, of Hyannis, drop a bag of tan powder on the ground while running from the parking lot of Stop & Shop on Long Pond Drive in South Yarmouth at around 10:40 p.m., according to the statement. [...]
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Founder of former Falmouth mortgage company pleads guilty to fraud
Robert Pena conspired to divert about $2.5M from government agency.
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Housepainter charged in Sagamore Beach theft
BARNSTABLE — An Abington man pleaded not guilty Thursday to a charge he stole $4,600 worth of camera equipment while working as a housepainter in August.Ryan White, 35, was arraigned in Barnstable District Court on a charge of larceny from a building.A Sagamore Beach resident discovered the equipment missing after Nelson Painting of Plymouth finished a three-day interior painting job, during which time the work crew was left alone in the house, according to a police [...]
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Falmouth man admits to lewd conduct
FALMOUTH — An East Falmouth man who was chased down by a woman with a BB gun because he was allegedly masturbating on her porch admitted to sufficient facts Thursday in Falmouth District Court on a charge of open and gross lewdness.Darryl Weathers, 22, was ordered to be under administrative probation supervision until April 2019.A woman called police in November saying a man was masturbating in front of her daughter from their back porch near Martin Road, according to a [...]
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Woman admits to hiding $3.5M in income from 'exorcisms'
BOSTON — A South Florida woman pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to impeding the Internal Revenue Service by hiding more than $3.5 million of income she was paid by an elderly Martha’s Vineyard woman to “rid the woman of demons through repeated exorcisms.”Sally Ann Johnson, 41, pleaded guilty to attempting to interfere with the administration of the Internal Revenue Service laws and is scheduled to be sentenced in January.Johnson [...]
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Woman admits hiding $3.5M of income from 'exorcisms' for Vineyard resident
BOSTON — A South Florida woman pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to impeding the Internal Revenue Service by hiding more than $3.5 million of income she was paid by an elderly Martha’s Vineyard woman to "rid the woman of demons through repeated exorcisms."Sally Ann Johnson, 41, pleaded guilty to attempting to interfere with the administration of the Internal Revenue Service laws and is scheduled to be sentenced in January.Johnson owned [...]
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Lynn man arrested after Harwich police chase
ORLEANS — A 25-year-old man from Lynn allegedly led police on a high-speed chase through Harwich neighborhoods Thursday night.Harwich police Officer Brendan Brickley ended the chase by pulling out his gun and ordering the driver, Tristan Murray, and his passenger to lie on the ground, according to Brickley's report.Murray was charged with reckless operation of a motor vehicle, possession of Suboxone, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, speeding and failure to stop [...]
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Expert testimony comes at a price
Adrian Loya murder trial in Barnstable Superior Court recent example of how witnesses drive up cost of complex case.
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2 teens arrested in Dennis armed robbery
DENNIS — A 19-year-old Dennis man and a 15-year-old boy from Yarmouth were arrested Monday afternoon by Dennis police for allegedly robbing someone at knifepoint at the Johnny Kelley Recreation Area, according to a statement from the Dennis Police Department.The victim came to the Dennis police station at 12:50 p.m. and reported that two men, one of whom had brandished a knife, had stolen an item he previously had agreed to sell to them at the Bob Crowell Road park in [...]
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