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Rape suspect a fraud; Level three sex offender working for Wamps; CCBL players face further sanctions

Investors say rape suspect a fraud
Accused of bilking $3Million

A Bumper Film Crop on Cape Cod
The cranberry harvest is a few months off, so for now it is film festival season on Cape Cod. The Provincetown International Film Festival opens on Wednesday night with the first American screening of Madonna’s directorial debut, “Filth and Wisdom.” The film, about three young people sharing a house in London, received mixed reviews after its premiere at the Berlin Film Festival in February. At the other end of the Massachusetts cape, the Nantucket Film Festival begins on Thursday and features “Elegy,” an adaptation of the Philip Roth story “The Dying Animal” directed by Isabel Coixet. NY Times.A Plymouth man who was charged with rape and kidnapping after a cross-state manhunt is now being accused of defrauding investors of more than $3 million  Secretary of State William Galvin, whose office oversees the state's securities industry, said a number of investors called his office soon after news reports that Stephen F. Clifford, 56, had been arrested June 4 at Foxwoods Resort and Casino on charges he had raped and kidnapped a woman on Cape Cod.

Investors complained that, even before Clifford's arrest, he had refused to turn over money they had invested with his firm, Clifford Financial Associates, Galvin's office said in a complaint filed yesterday... Herald.
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Level three sex offender working In Mashpee
Employed at Wampanoag Tribal Council

Cape Tap Water almost FREE
Bottles Water costs $12 a gallon
When you buy single-serve bottles of water, your money is actually purchasing water regulated less than tap, plus advertising. For that, you'll pay more than three times for H2O what you pay for gasoline-$12 per gallon.
   Single-serving bottled water costs up to 4,000 times as much as tap. It's not only the cost, of course, that's the problem. Cities must filter and disinfect tap, which comes from surface water. No federal filtration or disinfection requirements exist for bottled water... Business Week.The Mashpee Police Department has issued a public notification regarding a registered level three sex offender working in town.  According to a notice issued Tuesday by the MPD, Stanley R. Dutra is now employed at 483 Great Neck Road South, the offices of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Council. His home address is listed as 26 Centennial Place in Framingham.

Mr. Dutra, a former mason from Falmouth, was convicted in 1981 on a charge of aggravated rape. As a level three sex offender, as classified by the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board, Mr. Dutra is considered at high risk of committing another offense.  Mr. Dutra is 47-years-old, six feet tall, 220 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. His ethnicity is listed as Native American/Alaskan Native... Falmouth Enterprise.
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 Upper Cape students restore 9/11 billboard

Cape Cod League players face further sanctions
The commissioner of the Cape Cod Baseball League says players involved in an incident that left one hospitalized with severe injuries and another facing drunken driving charges could face further sanctions.
   Ryan Woolley of Montclair, Va., was charged Monday, a day after the accident that left Barrett Dail, of Raleigh, N.C., in critical condition with head and leg injuries after he was pinned under a truck driven by Woolley.
   Police say Woolley claimed the accident occurred when he tried to move his truck and Dail jumped on the hood... Herald.
WAREHAM — Six students from Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical High School restored a damaged billboard that held a painting depicting heroism on Sept. 11.  Under the supervision of carpentry teacher Kevin McFadyen, the six students — Chris Pugh, Josh McLaughlin and Nicole Viera of Wareham and Travis Kiminecz, Jason Fisher and John Medeiros of Falmouth — repaired the billboard, which was knocked down from its spot along Cranberry Highway in wind and rain last February.

The billboard held the painting "We Must Never Forget," by Marion artist Alexander Byron, showing three firefighters raising an American flag at ground zero after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11...  Standard-Times.