Police/Court
By JIM HICKEY
Edgartown police last week arrested a third man suspected in a string of recent break-ins.
Stephen Sullivan, 19, of Cat Boat Lane, West Tisbury, was arrested last Thursday and arraigned in Edgartown District Court on Friday. He was charged with multiple counts of breaking and entering, larceny from a building and malicious destruction of property. He was released on personal recognizance.
Two men, one with a long history of violent crime, were arraigned in Edgartown district court yesterday on multiple charges of larceny, destruction of property and felony breaking and entering, following a slew of Island break-ins over the past few weeks, including as many as eight in one day.
Tisbury police are investigating a nighttime burglary at the Green Room in downtown Vineyard Haven Sunday night in which someone broke through a side door on the basement level and stole money from a cash register and donations canister and several items of clothing.
Citizen Police Academy
The Oak Bluffs police department will host its second annual citizen’s police academy this year. The academy gives ordinary citizens the chance to observe the daily operations of the police department. It will include training sessions with officers, discussions and an optional ride in the cruiser, trip to the firearms range ad marine patrol operation.
Applicants must be at least 18 years of age. The academy runs for eight weeks and begins in March.
Less than a month after a new state law went into effect decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana, law enforcement leaders, both on Vineyard and around the commonwealth, are crying foul.
And already legislation has been proposed to toughen the statute.
Island police this week announced the new Martha’s Vineyard Tactical Response Team, an elite, highly trained group of officers that will assist the police departments during critical incidents such as hostage situations, searches for armed subjects and civic disorder.