Catherine Tobin, 66, was arraigned Edgartown District Court Friday morning on a charge of failing to report the loss of a firearm. Tobin pleaded not guilty during her arraignment, but almost immediately changed her plea. Within minutes of her not guilty plea, Tobin, who attended the proceeding virtually, pleaded to sufficient facts in the case. […]
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 […]
The Boathouse & Field Club, an exclusive members-only recreational club in Edgartown, is being charged with corporate involuntary manslaughter in the 2021 drowning death of a 3-year-old boy, Henry Bowman Backer. The case was scheduled to go before a judge in Dukes County Superior Court on Friday morning, but thus far has not been called. […]