Police/Court
Edgartown police arrested two 12 year olds in connection with a breaking and entering at Sandpiper Realty.
The two boys, one an Edgartown resident and another who lives in West Tisbury, are not being identified by the police. They are scheduled to be arraigned in December in juvenile court on charges of breaking and entering in the nighttime, larceny from a building, and malicious destruction of property.
Three women were arraigned last week for allegedly delivering drugs to inmates at the Edgartown house of correction.
Penny J. Gazaille, 33, of Edgartown, and June Morrell, 23, of West Tisbury, were arraigned Nov. 19 on charges of delivering drugs to a prisoner.
According to documents filed in court, on August 14 Ms. Gazaille allegedly delivered three Suboxone pills to Alex Carlson, an inmate, who was outside the jail on work detail.
On August 22, Ms. Morrell allegedly delivered four Suboxone pills to Mr. Carlson, also while he was outside on work detail.
A Tisbury police officer has been placed on leave after she was involved in a one-car crash last week.
Officer Kelly Kershaw sustained minor injuries after she drove a police car into a tree on State Road on Nov. 20, according to state police.
According to state police Sgt. Thomas Medeiros, Ms. Kershaw said that she felt like she was going to pass out before she hit the tree. Ms. Kershaw was travelling west on State Road and struck the tree around Mayflower Lane.
The Martha’s Vineyard Police Chiefs Association hopes to offer on-Island training for part-time police officers beginning this winter, Aquinnah police chief Randhi Belain said this week.
One of the drivers involved in a fatal Fourth of July car crash is being charged with motor vehicle homicide.
Thomas C. Jones, 53, is scheduled to be arraigned at the Edgartown courthouse Friday, Nov. 30 on two counts of motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation and one count of negligent operation of a motor vehicle. The charges come from a car accident that led to the deaths of his son, Seth Jones, 26, and Seth’s girlfriend, Heather Laflamme, 21.
A Tisbury police officer sustained minor injuries Tuesday night after the police cruiser she was driving crashed into a tree on State Road.
According to state police Sgt. Thomas Medeiros, police officer Kelly Kershaw was taken to Martha’s Vineyard Hospital and later released after the police cruiser crashed a little after 7 p.m. Tuesday night near Mayflower Lane.