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A Vineyard police sergeant’s alleged misconduct ruined his value as a witness, and may have damaged the reputations of the two departments where he worked. Following a credibility attack by Edgartown defense attorney Ryan Searle, Tisbury Police Sgt. Jeff Day was found to be unusable as a prosecution witness last winter, records recently obtained by […]

Following a public records request by the Martha’s Vineyard Times, Chilmark Police Chief Jonathan Klaren has unearthed previously unavailable records focused on Jeff Day, a former Chilmark Police officer and Tisbury Police sergeant. In response to earlier records requests by The Times, town officials, including Klaren, claimed the records could not be found.  The records […]

Executive session minutes from the Oak Bluffs select board have revealed information about a missing handgun. Until requested by the Martha’s Vineyard Times, the minutes hadn’t been released, and the details contained in those minutes about the missing handgun appear to have never previously been disclosed by the town. The minutes show a former Oak […]

Former Tisbury Police Sgt. Kinda Roman has settled with the Town of Tisbury, with former Tisbury Police Chief Mark Saloio, and with Tisbury Police Sgt. Max Sherman for a sum that’s yet to be disclosed.  The case was dismissed on June 17 by U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani in light of the settlement, court […]

A 2020 charge brought by former Tisbury Police Sgt. Jeff Day against Eugene Jemison, a local Black Lives Matter activist, was dismissed in Edgartown District Court Thursday morning. The charge stemmed from an incident outside the U.S. Post Office in Vineyard Haven where Sgt. Day allegedly told Jemison to move a vehicle despite knowledge Jemison […]

Sgt. Jeff Day has resigned from the Tisbury Police Department. Tisbury town administrator Jay Grande informed The Times of Day’s resignation on Tuesday and said the sergeant’s last day was May 6. “His resignation letter was accepted by myself, the town administrator, and the select board,” Tisbury Police Chief Chris Habekost said. Asked if Day […]

Following requests by the Martha’s Vineyard Times, the Tisbury select board released about 50 sets of executive session minutes, spanning 2009 to 2015. Releases were done in three stages between October and December, and required votes both to approve the minutes and to release them. The Times has waited several months to see if the […]

Updated at 3:40pm A federal lawsuit brought by former Boston Police Academy cadet Danielle Clermont against several Tisbury officials and a West Tisbury police officer has been dismissed in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts. Clermont sued Tisbury Police Sergeant Max Sherman, former Tisbury select board member James Rogers, former Tisbury Police Officer Jeremie Rogers […]

The Oak Bluffs police department has recovered the Bushmaster M-4 rifle that went missing in October, according to a press release. The matter is still being investigated. “As previously reported, on or about Oct. 25, 2021 it was determined that an Oak Bluffs Police Department M-4 patrol rifle appeared to be missing. Chief Erik Blake […]

Fellow officers were at hand across the Vineyard on the night of July 23 and the early morning of July 24, 2011, when two Tisbury Police officers searched for domestic battery and sexual assault suspect David Thrift, recently released Dukes County Communications Center audio records reveal. Executive session minutes show that following numerous and consequential […]