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The latest local police and fire newsThief cheats death in stolen taxi; Domestic suspect crashes car; Cumby's robbed in Falmouth; Text messaging blamed in Dennis crash; Armed invasion in Yarmouth; Rescuers respond to fall at Hyannis produce store
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Top story: Thief cheats death in stolen taxi
A man allegedly stole this cab and narrowly escaped death when a fence impaled it.
HYANNIS - A man is facing stolen vehicle charges but should consider himself lucky to be alive. Just minutes after 2008 was rung in, the suspect allegedly stole a Town Taxi at the Cape Cod Inn on Main Street in Hyannis. Moments later police discovered the taxi crashed off West Main Street at Jack Ellis Foreign Auto Repair. The cab had sheared a fence and the support pole for the fence impaled the entire cab missing the driver by inches.
The suspect 48-year old David Letsch was taken to Cape Cod Hospital with minor injuries. He's expected to be arraigned on Wednesday on charges of larceny of a motor vehicle, operating under the influence of alcohol, and operating to endanger.
(Photos by Frank Paparo/CWN)

Domestic suspect found crashed
A man wanted for a domestic dispute was found by police after his car struck a tree.
BARNSTABLE - Barnstable Police didn't have to look far for a suspect wanted in connection with a domestic disturbance. The duty sergeant found the suspect's Chevy Malibu after the suspect apparently lost control, spun around and struck a tree on Shoot Flying Hill Road by the Cape Cod Chamber of Commerce shortly before 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, just minutes after the "be on the lookout" broadcast was aired.
The suspect 20-year old Seth Broemmer of Bourne was not injured. He was arrested at the scene for operating under the influence of alcohol, operating to endanger and minor transporting alcohol. It could not immediately be confirmed if he will face additional charges in connection with the domestic dispute.
(Photos by Frank Paparo/CWN).
Cumby's robbed in Falmouth
FALMOUTH - A juvenile is under arrest for a reported armed robbery at knifepoint in Falmouth. The Cumberland Farms on Waquoit Highway (Route 28) was robbed shortly after 10 p.m. Police quickly caught up with a suspect at the corner of Carriage Shop Road and Altons Lane. The juvenile was charged with armed robbery while masked, assault with a dangerous weapon (knife), disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and malicious desctruction of property.
Text messaging blamed for Dennis crash
The driver of this Chevy Tahoe reportedly took her eyes of the road to retrieve a text message.
WEST DENNIS - Around 9:45 p.m. on New Years Eve, a woman reportedly retrieving a text message from her cell phone took her eyes off Trotting Park Road in West Dennis and glanced off a utility pole, severely damaging the right front end of her Chevy Tahoe. Alone in the vehicle, she was not injured in the crash. Dennis police responded to the scene of the accident and notified NSTAR to check the condition of the pole. It was not immediately confirmed if the woman will be cited.
(Story and photo by Kevin Morley/CWN).
Armed invasion reported at Yarmouth motel
YARMOUTH - Yarmouth Police and State police were on the scene of a reported armed invasion at the West Yarmouth Resort on Route 28 sometime after 8 p.m. Monday evening.
A police K-9 dog was requested to track two suspects who reportedly brandished a shotgun and made off with a safe.
We'll bring you further details as we get them from Yarmouth Police.
(Photo by R. Copley/CWN)
2008 arrives with a snowstorm in tow
Cape Cod spared
CAPE COD - The new year will be greeted by a fresh blanket of snow across parts of Massachusetts. The National Weather Service has issued a heavy snow warning for portions of Berkshire County, where 5-10 inches may fall on New Year's Day. Forecasters says the snow will develop Tuesday morning and become heavier through the afternoon. ... WHDH TV
COMM Rescue response to fall at Lambert's Fruit Co. in Hyannis
HYANNIS - At 4 p.m. Monday the Barnstable Police Department and Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills (COMM) Fire responded to a call of a man inside Lambert's Fruit Co. who had fallen and unconscious. Even though Lambert's is on West Main Street in Hyannis, just before Route 28, it is in COMM's coverage area.
When the rescue arrived they found that the male was not was alert but seriously injured from striking his head on the cement ground inside the store. COMM rescue packaged the male and transported him to Cape Cod Hospital.
(Story and photos and story by Frank Paparo/CWN)
Child injured in fall in Centerville
CENTERVILLE - At 6:30 p.m. Monday, Centerville, Osterville, Marstons Mills (COMM) rescue and Barnstable Police got a call of a small child with a head injury in the 270 block of Skunknet Road in Centerville. The child was worked on by several EMTs and then rushed to Cape Cod Hospital. It was not clear how the injury was sustained. Further details were not immediately available.
(Story and photos by Frank Paparo/CWN).
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Good one, but what with the "fruit" set up, but I was hoping for something a wee more edgier!
Keep up the good work, you Buzz with controlling the uncontrollable (we both know who I'm talking about, **cough**crusader**cough) and good work to you Tim, I know the citizens, PD and FD dig the site.
Tim, I respect how your blog INFORMS and doesn't exploit--kudos to you, the photographers, the writers, the citizens and most importantly the dispatchers, officers, firefighters, EMTs and anybody else I'm leaving out.
From Chatham? Every day to New Hampshire?
"No, not that UNH, he replied. "The one off the mid-Cape, near Burger King. You know -- the University of Northern Hyannis."
... a/k/a 4 C's
Thanks for the map.
What is Buzz, a gate-keeper to keep people from the truth?
Just like tawanda(*cough*)and her other million alias's?
Just what the hell are you all so afraid of?
It's how you try to shut people up and divert from the issues;
Though this comment was somewhat offhand, and not something one would really take to court as a threat of assault, it shows Tsarion’s (substitute you, Buzz, etc.) mindset. By degrading Chris (crusader, me) with Ad Hominem attacks, Tsarion(you)claims that he has no obligation to respond to any of the facts he brought up.
See!! That's exactly what you do! You never answer direct (and easy)questions asked of you, yet demand responses from those you don't agree with.
It's either pretty wimpy debating tactics, you just don't have any answers, or you just think you're too good to have to respond.
Happy New Year! January 10th cannot come soon enough. What is going to take to see the magnitude of corruption, hate crimes that are entrenched on that island? Jessica will find out soon enough. Hasn't anyone told her that most men in their 50's on the Cape don't like to date women over 35? Unless of course the men are 75. But if she flaunts her $$$ she will be the next gravy train for some smooth operator no doubt. What do we care? Buzz should stop changing his name. It's so obvious. They think they can fool the readers, Ha...they've caught on long ago. I posted very early because I was up so late, notice how a guy who has such a happy life, married 24+ years can't seem to stay away from the damn keyboard long enough to see if I posted. Like it's anyone's business where I am on the first, not out boozing it up, like the majority & on the island & the first is just another day of the many for them. My mom turned 80 today & we were busy preparing for her celebration. It's more important to for me to be with family and make today special for my mother.
Female translation: I'm done reading Playboy on the toilet.
Where's the spray?
And rapunzal, what did I say that was so bad? Why are you lumping me in with tawanda and wethepeople?
Was I offensive? Did I insult them with foul language? Did I make horrible insults about their mothers? NO. So why don't you save your recriminations for those foul-mouths that deserve it? It would sure be about time. You all seem to have no problem beating up on crusader, but you let these deranged liars (or one deranged liar)off the hook every time. lol is hardly "putting them in their place".
Well, I'll tell you one thing--it's a new year! The year of the Rat...so all you blow-hards with your hate-filled comments can go back under your rocks.
We rats are taking over!
Yes, as long as you have a small group of genuine friends, you are fine. Just don't work for the A**HOLES and don't ever speak your opinions about what happened to a woman who moved to Truro hoping to live out the rest of her years in peaceful splendor. No, she ran up against the wrong crowd and had to pay with her life. Why not leave the outsiders alone for a change? Don't you have enough of your own people to screw with?
I don't care what Buzz writes...he goes by more than one name, like a few others who have nothing better to do than try their hardest to discredit me. But you and I know it's only a matter time for the truth to get out. I feel bad for those three jurors. I'm sure they've been through hell, as others have, who dared to speak out. Too freakin' bad. Time to suck it up and pay the piper....I too believe in astrology & the tides are changing.
Hopefully, the right killers will be behind bars this time next year and Chris M. will be set free. Then maybe Christa can rest in peace, but not until that time. Those who have wronged her know who they are and they should be very worried indeed.
And now it's Buzz we have the hots for?
Hmmm, may be something subliminal going on here??? Maybe you'd better check yourself instead.
No hots for anyone, just a burning desire for justice.
Why not give it a rest,capemom/aka/?? whoever you are, yeah, we all want Buzz, who's been married 24+ yrs to a woman from lower cape who is probably just as closed minded as he is, please, why not sign up for another bookclub, maybe take the kids on a ski trip or go get a facelift or something....
bitter & I don't have to lower ourselves to a level of the Buzz types. neither of us have problems getting a REAL MAN, we would never settle for the ignorant drunken bums you got, they are an evil scurge to the women who become bitter old sea hags before too long,it's Jerry Springer Show by the seaside. Don't miss any of it! Most normal people wouldn't even step one foot on that island full-time. I was crazy to think I would be happy there, you don't want newcomers because you've got to keep your secrets in check. That's why so many have fled to FL, Maine & other states, because the Cape has got SO much to offer. Yeah, okay...keep telling it to the unsuspecting newcomer so you can continue to drain their bank accts, while your's increases. boatyard owner-"lawyer rip off elderly".
Looks like that evil "blt" is back under another name. Yeah, why not remind "blt"....that they cannot us the F word...and their lame threats won't do a thing after Jan. 10th....they will all have to pack up the chevy's in no time.
A great deal of your women who live on the island are ABUSED & don't even know it. They are not granted the same opportunties as the one's on the mainland & that's why they get stuck with most of your drunken, doped up deadbeat cheaters. I've lived on lower Cape long enough to see & hear it first hand by a woman I knew from Orleans. She said that two couples moved into together & soon one of the wives was sleeping with the other's husband, all under the same roof! Both have kids. Then the story of the schoolyard kids telling each other "my daddy slept with your mommy & we are sisters"....what? And there are other stories, but why disgust your readers, you all know it's true, why not admit what you have on the island? Or are you afraid?
Outsiders are not welcome. That is why you have resorts & gated communities, so the rich don't have to mingle with the bad elements. They know they exist, but they will take a chance because they think the aesthetics of the island are so appealing it's worth the risk.
Go read a book called, "G(racepoint)" by one of your locals. Claim is it's all fiction, but I'm sure when you finish the book, you will soon realize it's all based on true events. A man who worked in Ptown for many years told me, and after I read it, I understood what he meant. Keep your island freakshow. I hope the normal people don't get tainted by those bad elements, but the boy who was stabbed in Brewster, wonder how safe he feels these days.
Maybe an overdose, and Tim and his team will be called in to resusitate you.
Viper.
This is not your fire. Why not be a good fireman, run along and assist in the lastest overwhelming arson investigation in Ptown. It seems they are up to 13 arson cases that can't be solved. And the worst part, the chief of police & fire chief cannot get the paperwork completed or addresses right for the inspection team. Maybe you could find that other fireman who needs a place to live, since he's been given free housing by the chief (let him live in the firehouse) & now been kicked out. It seems you could be doing a lot of good for your community and if you are on the taxpayer tab, I suggest you try and make each dollar count.
Maybe you know the story of Mr. Carbone who was shot in the face by a fireman? What do you think of that story? Just curious. Shouldn't Harrington have to do sometime in jail for shooting an unarmed man in a dark parking lot over a genuine piece of filth? Sounds like another love triangle gone bad. And she covered for the fireman.
I don't doubt what you say about yourself is true. Classic beauty is hard to match.
You are neither intelligent or worthy.
Just bitter and cruddy.
He/She/It loves you.
But all of a sudden--this whole thing is so funny! It reminds me of when I had trouble with one of my kid's friends. And it says on a police report "mother has boyfriend who sleeps in tent in the backyard, and walks around in woman's underwear".(totally untrue!)
Now I keep picturing myself as this big fat guy with a thong, riding a Harley.
God, that's funny!
Thank you for the laugh!!!
Bugs-bunniesh. Hope I didn't offend anyone.
I am probably what you may think is a lil trampy looking. Love love loveee it!!!
I said: I don't doubt what you say about yourself is true.(if you wish to describe yourself as looking like a slut, who am I to stop you?)
(my)Classic beauty is hard to match.
I could care less what some of you malcontent's say. I don't need your approval. A lawyer I recently met from work said she was from Plymouth & knows what "goes on" on the Cape. She loves the city & would never move to the island. I'm sure having been raised in Plymouth got her an earful growing up.
You've done a great job so far keeping your secrets buried. Let's see what the new year brings, shall we? I have a feeling some cases of the past will be coming back to haunting.
So let me get this straight: The island's been plagued by drug trafficking by "a mob of some type" for decades. Christa found things out-got "hit", made to look like a robbery, rape by the black trashman L. S. was a "hit", not by DSS dad as did S.Reine "a hit", you allow it, & just who is the crazy one? You must like this lifestyle.
I am probably what you may think is a lil trampy looking. Love love loveee it!!!
I said: I don't doubt what you say about yourself is true.(if you wish to describe yourself as looking like a slut, who am I to stop you?)
(my)Classic beauty is hard to match.
I could care less what some of you malcontent's say. I don't need your approval. A lawyer I recently met from work said she was from Plymouth & knows what "goes on" on the Cape. She loves the city & would never move to the island. I'm sure having been raised in Plymouth got her an earful growing up.
You've done a great job so far keeping your secrets buried. Let's see what the new year brings, shall we? I have a feeling some cases of the past will be coming back to haunting.
So let me get this straight: The island's been plagued by drug trafficking by "a mob of some type" for decades. Christa found things out-got "hit", made to look like a robbery, rape by the black trashman L. S. was a "hit", not by DSS dad as did S.Reine "a hit", you allow it, & just who is the crazy one? You must like this lifestyle.
Thanks,
Elle
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