Barnstable County News

Just when you need a good road sign--as you approach the tricky Route 6A/Sandwich Road split in Sagamore, where final decisions are made about attempting to cross the construction-addled Sagamore Bridge--you encounter this indecipherable placard.

LUSTER, Michael, 21, 47 Truro Center Road, Truro; assault and battery and malicious destruction of property of a value less than $250, Oct.

Saint Patrick may have driven the snakes out of Ireland, but only you can drive the Greek Mafia out of Barnstable town hall on Tuesday.... An American, a Japanese and a Greek were sitting naked in the sauna.

The county retirement board will allow former Truro fire chief E. Thomas Prada, 66, to keep his pension although he pleaded guilty June 24 to grabbing a female police dispatcher's breasts while she worked.

BETHUNE, Ricky L., 42, Worcester County House of Correction; guilty plea to two counts violating a protective order, June 1 and Sept.

The Cape & Islands Youth Congress, an initiative of the Barnstable County Council for Children, Youth and Families, is currently seeking high-school-aged youth for the 2009-2010 Congress.

Eric Clapton has pulled out of this week's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame concert in New York after undergoing gallstone surgery.

A decade ago the Massachusetts General Court abolished county government, everywhere in the state, except in Barnstable.

Even as real estate sales volume rose statewide, the number of single-family homes sold on Cape Cod fell by 3.2 percent last month, according to numbers released yesterday by The Warren Group.

For most people, getting around Cape Cod is relatively straightforward if not always quick.

ANDREZEJEWSKI, David R., 50, 14 Central St., Provincetown; admitted sufficient facts to operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol , June 19 in Wellfleet, continued without a finding for one year, 45-day license loss, $1,597.22 costs and $50 fee.

A former financial broker from Hyannis was indicted by a Barnstable County Grand Jury yesterday in connection with the alleged theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars from his former clients.

BROWN, Robert K. Jr., 21, 172 N. Main St., Yarmouth; admitted sufficient facts to breaking and entering in the nighttime to commit a felony and malicious destruction of property of a value more than $250, Aug.

BOSTON "Blame, bully and delay." Hyannis, Mass., attorney David V. Lawler hammered home those three words in his closing argument to describe to jurors the conduct of a sophisticated real estate developer accused of swindling his elderly clients out of more than a half-million dollars.

GROSZ, Joseph R., 28, 116 Jamie Lane, East Falmouth; driving with license suspended, Sept.

His first arraignment took place in a Boston hospital, but today Caleb Greeson hobbled into a local courtroom to face his murder charge.

"Survivor" winner Richard Hatch is getting out of a Massachusetts jail after serving a 51-month sentence for evading taxes on the $1 million he won during the CBS reality show's first season.

The Cape and Islands district attorney is investigating whether criminal charges should be filed against former Mashpee Deputy Police Chief Albert Todino, who is alleged to have stolen a firearm from the department, officials from the district attorney's office said yesterday.

A charter review committee organized by Barnstable County officials met for the first time yesterday.

It is reported that two individuals were stabbed overnight at 143 Palmer Avenue in Falmouth.