Police/Court
Edgartown police are searching for a car involved in a hit and run accident on Tuesday.
Three Island men were arrested Thursday following a raid at an Oak Bluffs home that turned up more than $50,000 in drugs and cash.
Police arrested Ryan Dunbar, 20, and William Rogers, 20, both residents of 7 Sea Glen Road, where Oak Bluffs officers executed a search warrant.
A Oak Bluffs man charged with allegedly injuring his infant daughter was indicted Monday by a Dukes County grand jury.
Shaun A. Sicsico, 19, was indicted on charges of assault and battery on a child with substantial injury and permitting substantial injury to a child.
A West Tisbury man was killed Monday when the car he was driving collided with a tree on Old County Road, according to the West Tisbury police.
David S. Campbell, 25, was traveling northeast on Old County Road in a green 2004 Honda Accord when the car went across the roadway near Skiffs Lane and hit a tree, according to a press release by the West Tisbury police department. The incident happened at about 3:15 p.m.
A Framingham man found dead near Lake Tashmoo last week either jumped or fell from a Steamship Authority ferry, police said.
Francis G. Elms, 74, of Framingham, was found fully clothed in the ocean west of the Lake Tashmoo opening by a caretaker on the morning of Sept. 25, according to state police Sgt. Jeffrey Stone. A state medical examiner has determined that the cause of death was drowning, Sergeant Stone said.
The fall sitting of the Dukes County superior court begins next Monday at the Edgartown courthouse.
The Hon. Cornelius J. Moriarty 2nd, an associate justice of the superior court, will preside over the session. A new grand jury convenes on Monday.
Several civil trials are on the schedule. The schedule is light on criminal matters, with jury trials scheduled for the end of the month for Darryl B. Baptiste and Patrece L. Petersen.