Police/Court
A passel of pigs provided an adventurous Saturday evening in Aquinnah for police and residents of Lighthouse Road, who tried to corral the swine during a six-hour ordeal.
Eight people were taken to the Martha’s Vineyard Hospital with injuries after a second-story deck collapsed at a private home in Edgartown during a Fourth of July party Monday night.
A young girl suffered minor injuries and a dog was rescued after an unoccupied Volkswagen Golf rolled into Menemsha Creek on Saturday morning, police said.
Jake Sylvia, a veteran of the Edgartown fire department and emergency medical service, was appointed as Edgartown’s newest police officer Monday.
A Blackstone man faces six charges of rape and five charges of indecent assault and battery on a person who is disabled, following an investigation by Edgartown police.
Jennifer Pease has been appointed the new chief probation officer at Edgartown and Nantucket district courts.