Cape & Islands News

Police raid, Oil spill, Student stabbed, School bus accident, Arrests in Pit Bull deaths

FRIDAY JUNE 2, 2006
PEDESTRIAN CRITICALLY INJURED IN DENNIS
DENNIS – A pedestrian was critically injured after being struck by a vehicle on Route 6A in Dennis. It happened around 9 PM near the intersection of Briarfield Road. The victim was rushed to Cape Cod Hospital. Dennis Police are investigating. Further details were not immediately available.

OIL SPILL REPORTED IN BOURNE
BOURNE – Crews from Bourne Fire and the Coast Guard are on the scene of an oil spill on the water in Bourne. Booms were deployed to contain the spill. The size and cause of the spill could not immediately be confirmed. We’ll bring you further details as they become available.

STUDENT STABBED INSIDE FALMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL
FALMOUTH – A 17 year old Falmouth High School student is under arrest charged with attempted murder after allegedly stabbing a 15-year old shortly before 11 AM. Falmouth Police tell Cape Wide News Erica Schouten, believed to be a junior allegedly stabbed a female freshman for unknown reasons. School resource officer Cheryl Atherton was at the school and responded immediately along with school officials. Police also say Schouten kicked a school official twice. No motive for the attack was given. Schouten was arrested for assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (knife), assault with intent to murder, and two counts of assault and battery on a public employee. The victim’s injuries are reportedly not life-threatening. Grief counselors are expected to be made available for students who knew the victim or suspect and/or may have witnessed the attack.

TWO INJURED IN SCHOOL BUS ACCIDENT
DENNIS – Two people in a truck were slightly injured when it was rear-ended by a school bus. Police say the truck stopped to let some students cross Bob Crowell Road near Old Bass River Road around 7 AM when the bus rear-ended them. The truck driver 36-year old Frederick Van Sickle of Yarmouthport and a passenger 19-year old Alex Anderson were taken to Cape Cod Hospital for evaluation. Two other passengers were treated at the scene. None of the students on the bus or the bus driver were injured. Dennis Police are investigating the crash.

FALMOUTH POLICE EXECUTE SEARCH WARRANT
FALMOUTH – Falmouth Police acting on a tip of stolen handguns from Florida and a suspect with outstanding warrants raided a home on Pinehurst Drive Friday morning. They didn’t find the guns but with the assistance of the Mass State Police STOP team arrested 40-year old Steven Gauthier on the warrants. Police also say they did recover stolen motor vehicle parts.

TWO CAPE MEN ARRESTED IN PIT BULL SHOOTINGS
Keith Tynock of Cotuit and Todd Souderberg of Forestdale have been accused in the shooting deaths of two pit bulls referenced below. Barnstable Police Sergeant Sean Sweeney says the two men, both 26, have been arrested.

The police said the men had taken the two pit bulls from a friend who was moving, but found that the dogs were not getting along with another pit bull he already owned. Tynock and Souderberg allegedly put the dogs in the trunk of a car and drove them to a wooded area in West Barnstable, where they were shot numerous times.

Keith Kynock said the dogs did not get along. Kynock became angry and asked a friend, Todd Soderberg, to help him get rid of them. The men shot the dogs 37 times with automatic weapons in the wooded area on right.  

THURSDAY JUNE 1st, 2006 - Second Pit Bull incidsent this week;
PIT BULL SHOT DURING WARRANT EXECUTION
COPS WERE LOOKING FOR SUSPECT IN SHOTS FIRED INCIDENT
CENTERVILLE – A specialized response team consisting of Barnstable and Yarmouth police officers shot a pit bull while executing a warrant at a home on Strawberry Hill Road early Thursday morning. It all started Wednesday night around 8 PM when police responded to a shots fired call on Pine Street in Hyannis. Based on information provided by witnesses that shots had been in fact fired, police obtained a no-knock warrant for the house on Strawberry Hill Road where the 16-year old suspect’s mother lived. Police say the dog lunged at them but the occupants of the home who were handcuffed during the search per protocol disagree with that account saying the dog was not aggressive. The suspect was not at the house and is still at large. It’s the second time shots have been fired in Hyannis in the last three weeks, fortunately no one has been hit in either incident.

DRIVER EXTRICATED AFTER ROLLOVER CRASH
FALMOUTH A driver had to be extricated from their vehicle after it rolled over at the intersection of McCallum Drive and Sippewisset Road around 10 PM. The victim was not seriously injured. Falmouth Police are investigating the crash.

APARTMENT COMPLEX EVACUATED BY GAS MAIN BREAK   
DENNIS – An apartment building was briefly evacuated after the gas service was torn from the building. It happened around 6 PM. Firefighters were able to shut off the gas until Keyspan could arrived and make repairs. Further details were not immediately available.

CAPE FIREFIGHTERS HELP QUELL ONSET BRUSH FIRES
INVESTIGATORS LOOK TO SEE IF BLAZES CONNECTED TO SERIES OF FIRES
ONSET – Firefighters from Bourne were among those called from several towns to help put out over a dozen brush fires along the Cranberry Highway early this morning. Crews set up a staging area behind the Walmart in the Onset section of Wareham. No homes were threatened and no one was injured. Investigators are trying to see if the fires are connected to a series of fires in the Bournehurst Drive area.

FIRST WHALE STOLEN, THEN OTHERS VANDALIZED
HYANNIS – Earlier this week thieves made off with a 400 pound fiberglass sculpture of a whale that was part of the Cape Cod Whale Trail* exhibition. A $1,000 reward has been offered and authorities say several men were seen by an eyewitness putting the whale into a red van possible a Dodge. To add insult to injury sometime Wednesday two other whales were vandalized. The whales are to be eventually auctioned off for charity.

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