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A plea agreement stemming from allegations William Scott Sanfilippo revved and brandished a chainsaw, and threatened officers with it, failed in Edgartown District Court on Friday. Sanfilippo faces charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and disorderly conduct from the Oak Bluffs Police Department. Following a summary of facts read into the record by Assistant […]
The Oak Bluffs select board has augmented five sets of executive session minutes following an Open Meeting Law (OML) complaint filed by the Martha’s Vineyard Times and a subsequent violation finding by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office. The minutes pertain to an Oak Bluffs Police Department rifle that disappeared and then reappeared months later after […]
There is a stench coming from the Oak Bluffs Police Station. Sgt. Michael Marchand has resigned, forced out after an internal investigation found that he violated department policy in the handling of an M-4 rifle that was issued to him when he was the school resource officer at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. Marchand insists […]
Updated 6:20 pm An Oak Bluffs Police Department investigation into a lost then found patrol rifle enmeshed many but blamed only one person, Michael Marchand, the department’s senior-most sergeant. Marchand has resigned, according to a press release from select board chair Brian Packish sent Wednesday evening. A “mutual separation and release agreement,” received by The […]