Category: Police & Fire

Two Massachusetts teachers have spent the past week marching the length of Cape Cod to Plymouth to protest conditions for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility. “It’s something we’ve been passionate about for a while,” said Connor May, 33.  He and Chris Tansey, 35, walked from Boston to Stockbridge […]

The Kingston man killed when his small plane crashed Thursday morning in Curlew Pond at Myles Standish State Forest was a skilled pilot who had just bought the aircraft three weeks ago, according to a friend at Plymouth Municipal Airport. Richard Carrara, 81, a frequent presence at the airport, took off at around 6:30 a.m. […]

An 81-year-old Kingson man was killed Thursday morning after his small plane crashed into a pond in Myles Standish State Forest, officials said. Plymouth police and firefighters arrived at Curlew Pond at around 7:45 a.m. and found the man – who was later identified as Richard Carrara, 81, of Kingston – trapped in the plane, […]

A former employee of the Boys & Girls Club of Plymouth who was out on bail awaiting trial on charges he touched and photographed a half-nude seven-year-old camper was arrested again Tuesday on unrelated child pornography charges. Bradley Collins, 21, of East Bridgewater, was ordered held without bail at the Plymouth County Correctional Facility after […]

(This report has been edited to correct the spelling of Jessica Kenny’s name.) A civil liberties group asked a Suffolk County judge on Tuesday to force Plymouth County Sheriff to turn over records detailing the medical treatment of federal immigration detainees at the jail. Sheriff Joseph McDonald has so far rejected a December public records […]

A federal jury has found a Plymouth businessman guilty of pocketing Covid relief funds he received after lying about a previous fraud conviction. Joseph Kerrissey, 49, who owned several construction companies in town, allegedly submitted three fraudulent paycheck protection loan applications for his businesses worth more than $43,000. He was convicted June 18 of three […]

Two Plymouth men are facing criminal charges after a video appeared on the Facebook page ‘All Things Plymouth’ showing them allegedly punching and shoving a woman who is mentally ill and has no home. The alleged attack took place on April 8, but it wasn’t until May 20, when a caller alerted police to the […]

He’s been accused of shooting at a neighbor’s dog, texting his ex-wife 436 times over 13 hours, and calling a tenant 700 times after she complained about the way he was boarding her horses. Before he and his Plymouth police officer wife were charged with raping their adopted son, Dan Forand had a long history […]

Human remains found along Route 3 in Plymouth have been identified as those of Sandra Crispo, a Hanson woman who was reported missing in August 2019. On March 6, 2025, a hunter searching the woods for deer antlers, found a human skull in a trail near the breakdown lane between exits 13 and 15 of […]