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Police nab Yarmouth double shooting suspect in Plymouth Friday

Cape Cod's own 'Bonnie & Clyde' in the slammer

Giampapa and girlfriend found hiding out in Gov. Bradford motel in  Plymouth

   Left to right: Cape Cod's Bonnie and Clyde, Michael Giampapa and Tiarah Geggatt. According to their Facebook pages (his/hers), the two were boyfriend and girlfriend, "Awee bae ; thas soo cunnin ' I luh yhu ;*" (translation not available).

YARMOUTH - The search for a suspect wanted for shooting two men in Yarmouth Monday is over. After the double shooting at the American Host Motel on Route 28 in West Yarmouth, Yarmouth police issued an arrest warrant for 20-year-old Michael Giampapa. Giampapa had been at large until he was spotted by a Massachusetts State Police trooper in the rear parking lot of the Governor Bradford Motel in Plymouth Friday evening, according to a Yarmouth police release.

Giampapa, 20, whose address was 55 Lakefield Drive, Yarmouth, is accused of shooting the two men during a confrontation in the motel parking lot just around 6 p.m. this past Monday.

The trooper positively identified Giampapa and placed him under arrest. Giampapa had been staying at the motel in Room 313 with his girlfriend, Tiarah Geggatt, police said. Geggatt was also wanted on an outstanding warrant for several felonies.

After 5 p.m. Friday, members of the State Police CPAC Unit, the Plymouth Police Department and the Yarmouth Police Department, located Geggatt in Room 313 and took her into custody.

The two were transported to the Plymouth Police Department where they were processed and transferred to the custody of the Yarmouth police. The pair were booked at the Yarmouth Police Station then transported to the Bourne County Correctional Facility, their new home until their arraignments in Barnstable District Court on Tuesday.

Giampapa was charged with two counts of felony assault with intent to murder, felony firearm armed convicted felon and felony carrying a firearm without a license. Geggatt faces charges of felony home invasion, felony assault and battery while armed with a dangerous weapon and felony intimidation of a government witness.

It is not known what, if any involvement Geggatt had in the double shooting last Monday.

Source: Yarmouth Police Department.