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Breaking And Entering

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Alleged Threats at Tenant's Window Land Vineyard Man in Court

“Putting a person in fear” is one of the charges against 31-year-old Jonathan Holden after a 25-year-old neighbor told police a stranger opened her bathroom window, threatened her and tried to get into the apartment, court documents say.

A 31-year-old Vineyard Haven man has been arraigned in Edgartown District Court on suspicion of breaking and entering in the daytime and putting a person in fear, according to court documents. Jonathan Holden was arrested April 24, the day after a 25-year-old woman told police a stranger had appeared at her window, tried to get in and made threatening remarks to her while preventing her from closing the window. The woman, a tenant in a basement apartment on Renear Street in Vineyard Haven owned by Jackie and Janice King, called police around 7:40 p.m. April 23 to report the frightening apparition of a man with his face obscured. The man pushed back his hat to speak to her, she said, revealing "quarter-inch red facial hair shaped in a …

Jon

8:22 pm on Friday, May 10, 2013

I wish someone who was to edit this article had gotten my side of the story; This article is biased and false in many ways. -Jonathan Holden   more ›

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Oak Bluffs Teenager Won't Do Time for Stealing Cash

Telling police he needed money for food and clothing after his parents died, a member of the MVRHS varsity basketball team admitted taking cash left in an unlocked home. Deshawn James, 18, was placed on probation until 2015.

An 18-year-old Oak Bluffs man charged with unarmed burglary, entering a building in the night time and larceny will not go to jail after admitting to sufficient facts in the case, according to court documents. Instead, Deshawn James, who plays on the varsity basketball team at Martha's Vineyard Regional High School, will be on probation for two years, perform 30 hours of community service and make restitution to his victims. In December, James admitted to police that he had taken cash on multiple occasions from an unlocked home on Grovedale Avenue in Oak Bluffs. According to the written report of Oak Bluffs Police Sgt. Michael Marchand, police were called to the home Dec. 5 to investigate “three separate incidents when different stashes of…

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Michael West

2:40 pm on Friday, March 1, 2013

I totally agree, and I regret the MVRHS principal chose to lean so hard on this. It is unrealistic to think kids wont experiment, especially with decriminalized substances, and it is equally unrealistic to think kids can entirely ignore peer pressure. The suspension is in my view draconian and inappropriate despite the ard line taken in the code of conduct. Does the principal think this will …   more ›

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