Saturday, March 23, 2013
This puffy-jacket-wearing perp grabbed an entire display of 30 Banana Republic neckties worth almost $60 each, Braintree police say.
Braintree police are looking for a man who stole approximately $1,785 worth of ties from Banana Republic at the South Shore Plaza. The man placed an entire display of 30 ties worth $59.50 each in a bag and fled the store on March 13, according to the law enforcement website MassMostWanted.com. The suspect was wearing a black puffy jacket and baseball hat. Anyone with information is encouraged to contact Braintree Det. Steve Wallace at 781-794-8729 ext. 8729. For more police news on and off the Vineyard, please see our Police & Fire section, available in the News tab above or by clicking here. Stay Patched in! Follow Martha's Vineyard Patch on Twitter | Like Martha's Vineyard Patch on Facebook | Sign up for the daily email with links to the…
Wednesday, February 27, 2013
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…
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Christopher James Koch is back in hot water with Barnstable police, who say they arrested him twice Monday and once on Feb. 1 when they issued him a summons for credit card larceny and arrested him for shoplifting eight hours later.
From the log of the Barnstable Police Department for Feb. 11, 2013. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction: Police arrested Christine D. Hurley, 22 of Hyannis, and Christopher James Koch, 34 of Martha’s Vineyard while responding to a report of larceny at Verizon Wireless on Iyannough Rd. at 1:48 p.m. Hurley was charged with larceny of property over $250. Koch was charged with larceny of property over $250. Police arrested Christine D. Hurley, 22 of Hyannis, and Christopher James Koch, 34 of Martha’s Vineyard while responding to a report of a suspicious person at CVS on North St. at 11:42 p.m. Hurley was charged with shoplifting by concealing merchandise. Koch was charged with trespassing on land, dwelling…
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 ›