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One taken to hospital after Wellfleet two-car crash Wednesday

Both cars reportedly totaled in crash

WELLFLEET - One person was transported to Cape Cod Hospital late Wednesday morning after a two-car crash on Route 6. According to a Wellfleet police release, Wellfleet officers and firefighters responded to the crash near Dale Ave. just before 11:30 a.m.

Two vehicles were involved in the crash, a 2007 Toyota Rav 4 and a 1995 Honda.  The driver of the Toyota, Kathie Pavia, 65, of Wellfleet, was transported to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis. The driver of the Honda, Constantine Phipps, 47, of Orleans, was examined at the scene by Eastham EMTs, but was not taken to the hospital.

Both cars appeared to be totaled and were towed from the season, according to police.

Police did not indicate if either drivers faces any charges.

Two men arrested after Harwich breaking and entering

One being held pending outcome of dangerousness hearing

   Left to right: Randall Newell and Sean Garcia. HPD booking photos.

HARWICH - Harwich police officers were called to a duplex on Guilford Drive in Harwich Center early Tuesday morning for a reported breaking and entering in progress. Upon arrival at the home around midnight, officers found the door to the upper level apartment of a duplex kicked in.

According to police and court reports, the officers heard a loud conversation between two males at a nearby apartment.  There they located two men suspected in the breaking and entering of the first apartment, Sean Garcia, 31, of Harwich, and Randall Newell, 24, of Yarmouth.

Garcia was arrested and taken into custody on four outstanding warrants. Newell, who is no stranger to local law enforcement, was arrested and charged with two counts of possession of a large capacity firearm without a permit, defacing a serial number on a firearm, breaking and entering, possession of ammunition without a permit and malicious destruction of property.

The two were transported to the Harwich Police Station, booked and held until their arraignment on Tuesday, police said.

Randall Newell is currently being held pending a dangerousness hearing scheduled for March 2. Newell has been convicted in the past on both illegal firearms and drug trafficking charges, according to police.

A Barnstable County Sheriff's Office K9 Unit assisted with the arrest, police said.

Masked man armed with syringe robs Wareham 7-Eleven

Store clerk not harmed during robbery

WAREHAM - Wareham police are searching for a suspect wanted after robbing the 7-Eleven on Cranberry Highway early Tuesday. At 3 a.m. a masked man brandishing a syringe entered the store and demanded money from the female clerk on duty, according to Wareham Lt. Kevin Walsh.

The woman handed over an undisclosed quantity of cash and the masked man fled the scene. The clerk was not harmed during the incident, police said.

Although the suspect's face was covered, the clerk described him to police as a thin, white man in his early 20s, about 5'7" tall.

Photos or security video is not available at this time, police said.

Anyone with information about the suspect or the incident is asked to contact the Wareham Detective Division at 508-295-1206. Or text the information to 274637 (CRIMES), beginning your text with "warehampd".

Yarmouth police seek assault charges against Christy Mihos

Police complete investigation into alleged domestic disturbance last July

Local police continue to work with the Martin County Sheriff's Department

Christy Mihos in the 2010 campaign for Governor interviewed by Greg O'Brien.YARMOUTH - Last week it was reported that two police departments, one here on Cape Cod and the other in Florida, were investigating allegations of domestic abuse against Christy P. Mihos, 62, of West Yarmouth.  The incidents were reported to have happened in West Yarmouth on July 7, 2011 and in Stuart, Florida on Monday, February 20. Both complaints were reported to the Yarmouth police on Tuesday night at 10 p.m. by Mihos' wife, Andrea.

According to Yarmouth Police Deputy Chief Steven Xiarhos, his department has completed their investigation into the July 2011 matter and are seeking a complaint for misdemeanor assault and battery against Mihos. The case was submitted to the Barnstable District Court for further action, said Deputy Chief Xiarhos.

Monday, Yarmouth police confirmed that the Barnstable District Court reviewed the case against Mihos and scheduled a March hearing on the July 2011 West Yarmouth incident.

Last week, Yarmouth police suspended Christy Mihos' license to carry firearms and seized a handgun that he owned.

Yarmouth police continue to work with the Martin County Sheriff's Department in Florida. The investigation into the alleged attack on Monday in Stuart, FL is active and ongoing, according to Deputy Chief Xiarhos.

Mihos sought the Massachusetts Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2010, losing to Republican Charlie Baker who went on to be defeated by incumbent Democrat Deval Patrick.

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Christy Mihos under investigation for domestic abuse

What's in the Kool-Ade at Alliance parties anyway?

Alliance co-founder Bill Koch had Christy Mihos' problem in 2000

On December 4, 2000, a charge of domestic assault and battery was filed against billionaire yachtsman Bill Koch, future co-chairman of the anti-wind farm Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound, was dismissed, according to a story the following day in the Cape Cod Times.
   "Koch's estranged wife, Angela, had notified the district attorney's office that she would assert her marital privilege and not testify against Koch," according to the Times. "A note in the Koch file, signed by First Assistant District Attorney Michael O'Keefe, noted that without Mrs. Koch's testimony, the state had no evidence against her husband."
    "In July," the Times reported, "Angela Koch called the Barnstable police to the couple's Oyster Harbor home, claiming her husband had punched her in the stomach and threatened to hurt his 14-year-old son from a previous marriage."

 The Boston Globe reports that Yarmouth Police said they are working with the Martin County Sheriff’s Department in Florida to investigate two alleged incidents that occurred in the last year.

The first, police said, allegedly occurred July 7 in West Yarmouth, where the 62-year-old Mihos lives in a gated home on Great Island with his wife, Andrea. The second incident allegedly occurred Monday in Stuart, Florida.

Andrea Mihos reported both incidents at the Yarmouth police station on Tuesday evening, said Deputy Chief Steven Xiarhos.

Mihos whose home is at 51 Smith’s Point Road on Great Island in Yarmouth, has not been arrested in either state, Xiarhos said, but the Yarmouth police have suspended Mihos’ license to carry firearms and seized the handgun that he owns.

Mihos associate at Alliance has a similar record

This is the second shocking story this week about the founders of the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound.

On Wednesday Bill Koch of Osterville, another founder and major funder of this anti-wind farm group, was fined over a half million dollars by the United States Department of Justice for rigging non-compete contracts to avoids payments to the government.

Christy Mihos and Bill Koch are co-founders of the Alliance, and now also share the similar police record with Florida and Cape Cod police.

Some local observers are asking what's in the Kool-Ade at the Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound parties.

RFK's son arrested after he kicked nurse in the crotch

Douglas Kennedy as a baby being held by his father Robert F. Kennedy and mothel Ethel Kennedy.The Daily Mail reports that the son of Robert F. Kennedy has been arrested for allegedly attacking two nurses who tried to stop him from removing his newborn baby from the hospital.

Douglas Kennedy, a journalist, is charged with harassment and endangering the welfare of a child following the altercation, which happened last month.

He is alleged to have twisted the arm of one nurse and kicked another in the crotch as they tried to make sure his two-day-old son Boru was not being treated roughly.

The nurse in charge of the unit, Anna Margaret Lane, said in a deposition that Kennedy wanted to take the child "to get fresh air" that evening. As he tried to leave, he was accompanied by a doctor from the hospital's emergency room, identified in court papers as "Dr. Haydock," later determined to be Dr. Timothy Haydock, a longtime family friend.

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Third arrest made in Hyannis parking lot pot bust

Follow-up investigation leads to third illegal drug arrest

Two arrested during a North Street pot bust earlier in the month

HYANNIS - A third man has been arrested and faces charges stemming from a pot bust made earlier this month. On Friday, February 17, Yarmouth Detective Scott Lundegren and Barnstable County Deputy Sheriff Kim Saladino, both members of the Barnstable Street Crime Unit (SCU), busted two men in a North Street parking lot around 11 p.m. The men, 27-year-old Robert Daluze of Harwich and Johnadam P. Bonicoro, 28, of East Strousdberg, PA, according to a Barnstable police release, were found to be in possession of a half pound of marijuana, a digital scale and a suboxone pill.

SCU caught up with Wesley Rose and arrested him a week after a Hyannis pot bust. BPD photo.The owner of the pickup truck the two men were in, Wesley Rose, 31, of West Yarmouth, was in a Hyannis downtown club at the time of the arrest. SCU located Rose in the club and he admitted giving Daluze and Bonicoro a ride, but denied any involvement with the drugs, police said.

The marijuana was found under the front seat of Rose's pickup truck in a white plastic shopping bag. Inside the bag, police found a register receipt from a Falmouth store dated 2/17/2012, 5:14 p.m., six and a half hours before Daluze and Bonicoro were arrested in Hyannis.

During a follow-up investigation, Detective Lundegren and Deputy Sheriff Saladino obtained surveillance video from the Falmouth store in which Rose is shown making a purchase and carrying the white plastic bag found in the truck out of the store.

Based on the new evidence uncovered during the investigation, police obtained a warrant for Rose's arrest and he was taken into custody by Yarmouth police officers Saturday at his West Yarmouth home.  Rose was transported to the Barnstable Police Department where he was booked and charged with possession of a Class D drug (marijuana) with intent to distribute, possession of a Class B drug (suboxone) and conspiracy to violate narcotics laws. He is being held on $5,000 cash bail, according to police, and will be arraigned Monday.

No stranger to local and federal law enforcement, Wesley Rose was released from federal prison in December 2011, where he was doing time for robbing a St. Johnsbury, VT jewelry store in January 2007. During the robbery, Rose and an accomplice bound a female employee's hands and feet with flex ties and locked her in a backroom while they made off with diamonds and other precious stones, police said. The two were apprehended in Attleboro later that day by the Massachusetts State Police.

Barnstable police have notified federal probation about the new charges against Wesley Rose.

Dennis police bag 20-year-old heroin peddler armed with a switchblade

Arrest the result of a "suspicious activity" call to police

   Cash, heroin and a switchblade were confiscated during an arrest Thursday. DPD photo.

DENNISPORT - A 20-year-old Dennisport man faces drug and weapon charges after being arrested by Dennis police Thursday.  Around 3:30 p.m., Patrolman Richard Provencher and Sergeant John Brady responded to a report of suspicious activity at a Dennisport business. According to a Dennis police release, upon arrival, the officers encountered two men in a black Lincoln sedan.

One of the men, Agapito Canela, 20, of Dennisport, was arrested after the officers recovered several baggies of heroin and a switchblade knife.  Canela was transported to the Dennis Police Station where he was booked and charged with possession of a dangerous weapon (switchblade) and possession of a Class A drug (heroin) with intent to distribute.

Canela was bailed, according to police, and arraigned in Orleans District Court Friday.

Four arrested during Hyannis pot bust, one an escaped prisoner from New Jersey

Escaped prisoner told police he was selling pot "to make a little money"

Left to right, top: Corey A. Gomez, Ollie J. Barboza; left to right, bottom: Angelique Laypool, Kyleah L. Hague. BPD booking photos.

HYANNIS - Members of the Barnstable Street Crime Unit (SCU) arrested four people Thursday during an undercover patrol in the West Main Street area of Hyannis. Around 3:30 p.m., Barnstable Officers Peter Ginnetty and Scott Wright observed what appeared to be an illegal drug transaction between a man in a car and another on foot in the parking lot of Sav-On Gas at 326 West Main Street, according to a Barnstable police release.

As the officers approached, the driver of the car, Cory A. Gomez, 26, of New Jersey, tried to exit the lot as did the man on foot, identified as Ollie J. Barboza, 21, of Hyannis. Both men were detained along with two female passengers in the car, Angelique  Laypool, 22, of Hyannis and Kyleah L. Hague, 22, of South Yarmouth.

During a follow-up search, officers confiscated two bags of marijuana from Barboza and nineteen bags from Gomez.  Gomez told police we was only selling pot to "make a little money".

The four were arrested and transported to the Barnstable Police Department were they were booked. Barboza was charged with possession of a Class D drug (marijuana) and conspiracy to violate narcotics laws. The other three were charged with possession of a Class D drug (marijuana) with intent to distribute and conspiracy to violate narcotics laws, according to police.

While searching Gomez's background, police discovered that he is an escaped prisoner from the New Jersey Department of Corrections. Gomez, according to police, walked away from the Kintock Halfway House in Newark where he was finishing off a ten-year sentence for robbery. In addition to the drug-related charges, Gomez was charged as a fugitive from justice.

Barboza's background revealed a criminal past as well. When placed under arrested Thursday, he was wearing a GPS monitoring bracelet issued by Middlesex Superior Court where he is under indictment for attempted murder, assault with intent to murder, assault and batter with serious injury and intimidation of a witness. In July 2010, Barboza was arrested by Natick police after reportedly attacking a woman in a local motel room, police said. The victim was treated in the intensive care unit of a local hospital following that attack.

Two busted by Barnstable police and ICE officials during Hyannis raid

Narcotics investigation leads to arrest of two illegal aliens Tuesday

   Left to right: Thiago M. DePaula, Claudinei Paula DeSouza. BPD booking photos.

HYANNIS - A week-long investigation into the sale of illegal narcotics has landed two in custody--one with the Barnstable police, the other with ICE.  Tuesday, around 2:45 p.m., Barnstable detectives accompanied by Department of Homeland Security ICE agents executed a search warrant at 43 Spring Street in Hyannis. The target of the investigation, 25-year-old Thiago M. DePaula was located in the home during the raid,  according to Barnstable Det. Lt. John Murphy. In addition to being a drug dealer, DePaula is a suspected illegal alien wanted in Brazil, police said.

During the raid, police confiscated two grams of cocaine, a digital scale, drug packaging materials and $2,574 in cash.  Police also had information that DePaula was suspected in a robbery in which an Apple iPad was stolen. The stolen tablet was also recovered from the home.

DePaula was placed under arrest and charged with possession of a Class B drug (cocaine) with intent to distribute and receiving stolen property. He was transported to the Barnstable Police Station where he was booked and held overnight until his arraignment on Wednesday.

A second man, Claudinei Paula DeSouza, 36, was also in the home at the time of the raid. DeSouza, an illegal alien, had already been deported back to Brazil, according to police. DeSouza was arrested and booked at the Barnstable Police Station on an ICE warrant. He was then turned over to ICE agents on suspicion of illegally reentering the United States.

Wareham police issue Level 3 sex offender notice

Convicted on child rape charges in 1984 and 2006

Individual is not wanted by the authorities

Joseph W. Lunnin Jr., Level 3 sex offender registered in Wareham. WPD photo.

WAREHAM  - The Wareham Police Department has issued a Level 3 sex offender community notice for an individual now living at 7 Mattapoisett Road in Wareham. Joseph W. Lunnin Jr., 67, was convicted of multiple counts of  rape and abusive of a child in 1984 and 2006:

• 03/20/2006: indecent assault and battery on a person aged 14 or older
• 03/20/2006: three counts rape of a child with force
• 03/20/2006: three counts posing or exhibiting a child in state of nudity or sexual conduct
• 07/26/1984: posing or exhibiting a child in state of nudity of sexual conduct
• 07/26/1984: three counts rape and abuse of a child

Lunnin is a white male, 5'11", 185 lbs with hazel eyes and gray or partially gray hair.

There is no work address available on Lunnin.

Joseph W. Lunnin Jr.  has been designated a Level 3 sex offender by the Sex Offender Registry Board (SORB). The Board has determined that this individual is at a high risk to re-offend and that the degree of dangerousness posed to the public is such that a substantial public safety interest is served by active community notification.

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Two-alarm fire on Main Street in Falmouth destroys laundromat and Thai restaurant

FALMOUTH - Falmouth firefighters responded to a two-alarm blaze at 807-809 Main Street Tuesday afternoon. The fire destroyed two businesses in one building, Town Laundry and the adjacent Bangkok Cuisine Thai Restaurant.

Mashpee and Bourne firefighters also responded to the scene, Bourne with their ladder truck to help extinguish the fire which broke out in the laundromat.

A section of Main Street was closed while the fire was knocked down. Firefighters contained the blaze in the building which is next to a Cumberland Farms mini mart and gas station.

The state fire marshal was on scene. The cause of the fire has not officially been announced.

Video by David G. Curran.