The thieves were no match for Steven Galandzi. The 28-year-old Plymouth Walmart employee, autistic and vulnerable, was leaving work in late August when three young men accosted him demanding money. At first, he resisted but was so scared he opened his wallet and ended up giving them everything —$150 he had saved from his weekly […]
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Plymouth Public House, Tavern on the Wharf hit with huge labor law fines
The owners of the Plymouth Public House and Tavern on the Wharf restaurants have been fined nearly half a million dollars for violating state labor laws. Peter Lucido and Paul Tupa have been ordered pay a total of $476,351 in civil penalties and in restitution for violating child labor, sick time, wage and hour compensation, […]
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A career marked by many complaints ends with a hefty payday
He left a motorist shaking and irate after stopping her for driving just under the speed limit in the Route 3 passing lane. He allegedly pepper sprayed a man who was already restrained in handcuffs. He ordered a subordinate to remove from a police report the name of a teenager stopped for alleged drunk driving, complaints […]
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Georgia man charged with human trafficking after arrest at Colony Place
A Georgia man faces human trafficking charges after two women said the semi-trailer truck driver assaulted them at the Colony Place shopping plaza on Saturday. Plymouth Police said Akeem Shabazz, 27, of Dakula, Georgia, fled the scene in his truck before being pulled over. The women, ages 19 and 20, told police Shabazz picked them […]
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Former Sandy’s owner sentenced for federal tax evasion
The former owner of Sandy’s, the popular seasonal restaurant and bar on Plymouth’s Long Beach, was sentenced Friday to two years of probation after pleading guilty to tax evasion. Rudolph Ferrucci, 66, of Plymouth, who owned the cash-only Sandy’s, was accused of concealing business income from the Internal Revenue Service – nearly $1.2 million between […]
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Ponds of Plymouth property defaced by ugly graffiti, including swastikas
Last weekend, residents of Lunn’s Way in the Ponds of Plymouth development woke up to alarming graffiti that included swastikas spray painted on fences, signs, and mailboxes, Plymouth police said. The graffiti, which appeared in the early morning of Dec. 9, also included racial epithets and drawings of male body parts, police said. “The department […]
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Traffic restrictions, road closures will be in place for trooper’s funeral services on Thursday
Funeral services for State Trooper Gregory Furtado, a Plymouth resident who died suddenly on Nov. 30, are expected to draw a large crowd of mourners to St. Peter’s Church on Court Street Thursday morning. Furtado, 41, was a detective assigned to the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s office. While expressing condolences during Tuesday’s select board […]
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In separate arrests, two facing cocaine, fentanyl charges
If he had just kept a key to his father’s house, Brian Vincenzi wouldn’t be facing felony drug charges. Vincenzi, 33, of Carver, was allegedly trying to break into his father’s home on Grabau Drive in Plymouth just before 5 p.m. on Dec. 1 when someone called the police. It was dark and rainy, and […]
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Plymouth residents stole a half million dollars in COVID benefits, prosecutors say
Aaron Fernandes was in jail on drug charges when he hatched a plan —over a recorded phone line — to collect COVID relief payments he wasn’t entitled to, prosecutors say. Fernandes, 42, of Plymouth, is accused of plotting with two women to pocket nearly $100,000 in relief payments meant for people struggling to survive financially during the […]