Police/Court
Erik G. Blake, chief of police for Oak Bluffs, has been elected to serve as the president of the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association.
Mr. Blake is the first Vineyard chief to lead the Grafton-based organization. He will be sworn in on Dec. 12 in Falmouth, and will serve for one year.
After more than a year of discussion, Oak Bluffs is poised to modernize its fire department by creating a new command structure.
A caravan-style car drove off the end of the Steamship Authority dock and was trapped underwater with four passengers inside.
This was the premise of a training scenario staged Sunday morning for the Oak Bluffs dive and rescue team.
“An elderly person had a medical event and they gunned it down the terminal,” said Oak Bluffs fire department acting chief John Rose, who conducted the dive team’s first car rescue drill.
A West Tisbury school bus driver has been charged with indecent assault and battery on a child.
Mark A. Bergeron, 47, of Edgartown, was arraigned Nov. 7 on charges of assault and battery, enticing a child under the age of 16, and two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of 14.
According to documents filed in court, Mr. Bergeron allegedly assaulted young girls in West Tisbury in 2009 and 2010. He allegedly knew the mother of one of the girls.
An Island man will go to jail for 18 months after pleading guilty to charges that include indecent assault and battery on a child.
Andrew R. Bradshaw, 49, pleaded guilty in Edgartown district court Friday to open and gross lewdness, indecent assault and battery on a child younger than 14 (amended from rape of a child with force) and two counts of enticing a child younger than 16.
Edgartown police are searching for a car involved in a hit and run accident on Tuesday.