Police/Court
Jeffrey T. Moore, 43, was arraigned Monday morning in Edgartown district court on charges of trafficking in heroin following an investigation by the Martha's Vineyard Drug Task Force.
Despite previous warnings, an Oak Bluffs man will remain on probation after appearing in Superior Court Tuesday for allegedly violating his probation.
In October, Daniel A. Ben David, 50, pleaded guilty in Superior Court to charges of unarmed robbery and larceny more than $250 for his part in a 2011 theft of $85,000 from an Oak Bluffs man in his seventies.
A New York woman was sentenced to state prison Tuesday in Dukes County superior court on cocaine trafficking charges.
Mitefea Kelly, 18, pleaded guilty to trafficking in cocaine, 36 to 100 grams, and was sentenced to four to six years at Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Framingham, a medium-security prison for women, by the Hon. Robert C. Rufo, an associate justice of the superior court.
The charge was reduced from trafficking in cocaine, more than 200 grams.
A prominent Island businessman was sentenced to two years in the Dukes County house of correction Friday for child assault charges.
A Boylston man was arraigned last week on drug charges and for failing to register as a sex offender.
Matthew Paul Tucci, 30, was arraigned Jan. 18 in Edgartown district court on Jan. 17 charges in Oak Bluffs of failing to register as a sex offender, possessing a class A drug (heroin), possessing to distribute a class A drug (heroin), possessing to distribute a class B drug (Clonazepam), and false/misuse of a liquor ID card or license. Judge H. Gregory Williams set bail at $15,000.
Thanks to the generosity of a group of Edgartown residents, a new police and fire boat will be floating on Edgartown harbor this summer.
On Monday the Edgartown selectmen accepted a gift of more than $116,000 from the town patrolmen’s association toward outfitting and training for a police and fire boat.
The gift was a result of a fund-raising effort by Tony Chianese, the former owner of Edgartown Marine, and a $70,000 donation by Edgartown resident Ernie Boch Jr.