Police/Court
A New York woman is facing a cocaine trafficking charge in what the Edgartown police chief said was one of the biggest drug busts in recent memory.
Mitefea Kelly, 18, was arraigned Friday morning in Edgartown district court after being arrested Thursday for allegedly carrying more than 270 grams of cocaine.
A federal magistrate has ruled that a man who sold his summer home but kept a nonbuildable lot in Aquinnah is not entitled to a parking permit to use Philbin Beach.
The decision sided with the town of Aquinnah in a case brought almost two years ago by John M. Callagy, who was denied a permit to the town beach off Moshup Trail after he sold his Aquinnah home in 2007. The beach was given to the town by J. Holladay Philbin in 1968 with a deed restriction that said the property was to be used “by all permanent and seasonal residents.”
An Edgartown woman was arrested on drunken driving charges Tuesday after she was involved in a two-car crash in West Tisbury that sent two to the hospital with minor injuries, police said.
Jennifer Brown, 33, of Edgartown was headed south on State Road Tuesday just after 4 p.m. when she rear-ended a car driven by Joseph Spinelli, 72, West Tisbury police Cpl. Garrison Vieira said.
A New York inmate has been charged for the 1991 murder of a former Martha’s Vineyard music teacher.
According to the Democrat and Chronicle newspaper of Rochester, N.Y., Edward Laraby, 59, pleaded not guilty this week in Erie County to the murder of Stephanie Kupchynsky.
Ms. Kupchynsky, a former Vineyard music teacher, disappeared in the summer of 1991 at the age of 27. The Democrat and Chronicle reported that her skeletal remains were found seven years later.
A grand jury Tuesday handed up an indictment for a Boston man on 13 counts for allegedly raping an Oak Bluffs woman on May 28 in Chilmark.
Bryant K. Brown, 33, of Boston, was indicted on three counts of rape, three counts of assault with intent to rape, one count of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14, five counts of assault and battery on a disabled person, and one count of threat to commit a crime.
Mr. Brown was arraigned in Edgartown District Court on May 29 for allegedly assaulting a 28-year-old disabled woman. Bail was set at $300,000.
State police are seeking charges against the driver of a Jeep involved in a fatal Fourth of July car accident.
Cape and Islands district attorney Laura Marshard said state police issued a complaint for two charges of motor vehicle homicide against Thomas C. Jones of Dummer, N.H., after a two-car crash on Barnes road between the Jeep Wrangler he was driving and a Volkswagen Tiguan driven by a 19-year-old New Hampshire man.