Crime & Safety
Police Roundup: Man Who Faces Middleboro Murder Charges Allegedly Assaulted Falmouth Cop
A weekly roundup of police, fire and court news from the South Shore, Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard.
Compiled by Patch Staff.
In Falmouth, a man who allegedly shot and killed a woman in Middleboro in early July had just finished serving a sentence for assaulting a Falmouth police officer in November.
Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe said Wednesday that he will not identify the man found dead in a pond behind the Cape Cod Mall "out of respect for the family”.
A drunken, "disorderly" man who allegedly vandalized the British Beer Company in Hyannis with ketchup was arrested July 7.On Martha’s Vineyard, an Oak Bluffs man was found dead and his roommate was charged this week with heroin trafficking.
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Police in Plymouth doing a well-being check on a 69-year-old woman who hadn't been seen in nearly two weeks met a gruesome sight Tuesday, when they discovered the woman's body in an advanced stage of decomposition at her Kennedy Parkway home.
Two Plymouth men face charges that they stole a $5,000 deposit from a McDonald's restaurant at the Exit 5 rest stop July 13.Old Colony Commuter Rail riders in South Weymouth may have experienced delays on Wednesday morning after a train struck and killed a 59-year-old man in Kingston.
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A syringe needle was found at a telephone pole at the corner of Bulow Road and Lincoln Street in Hingham Monday morning. Police subsequently issued a reminder to residents on the Dos and Don’ts of finding hypodermic needles.
A Hingham man was arrested twice in three days for driving under the influence of alcohol, according to Hingham police reports.Norfolk County District Attorney Michael said he lost consciousness because of fatigue, dehydration and extreme temperatures just before being involved in a car crash Tuesday evening on Centre Street in Milton.
In Braintree, a 21-year-old local man, who Boston police say fired at them in South Boston earlier in the week, was subsequently held in lieu of $2 million bail.
A 32-year-old Braintree man who was a contractor for the U.S. Postal Service was sentenced this week to four years in federal prison for stealing credit cards from a mail-sorting facility while on the job, and then using the credit cards to commit fraud.Get more local news delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for free Patch newsletters and alerts.