A Plymouth School Committee meeting being held on Zoom was cut short Monday night after a hacker took over the screen, replacing it with a grainy picture of a man engaged in a sex act, according to screenshots shared with the Independent. Swastikas could be seen on two corners of the screen, and at the […]
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Suspect with lengthy criminal record accused of Harborwalk thefts
Even before she pleaded guilty last year to pandemic relief fraud, Katherine Quigley had been charged more than 100 times for similar crimes, such as larceny and identity theft, according to police reports. In June 2024, the 45-year-old Plymouth woman admitted stealing, or conspiring to steal, $51,735 in Covid-related unemployment checks, hatching the plan with […]
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Police say ebike complaints are down sharply
Plymouth police say they received a flurry of complaints about ebikes after the Independent reported in June that teenagers were illegally riding the electric vehicles all over town, terrifying pedestrians, endangering themselves, and harassing motorists. On May 30, two teens — one 14, the other 15 — got into a head-on crash along the Plymouth […]
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Serial thief pleads guilty to multiple charges
Sunny McDonough, the serial thief who swiped packages from mailrooms in Plymouth and more than a dozen other Massachusetts communities, pled guilty Wednesday to multiple felonies. She was sentenced in Plymouth District Court to six months in jail, a term that will start after she wraps up a 15-month sentence for a probation violation in […]
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Serial cyberstalker gets nine-year sentence
He expressed deep regret for his actions, but James Florence, a Plymouth man described by prosecutors as a serial cyberstalker, could not persuade a judge to show him leniency. Florence, 37, an information technology professional who once held US Department of Defense “secret clearance” status, was sentenced Wednesday to nine years in prison followed by […]
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Man faces charges after brandishing knife in bar
In recent years, Main Street Sports Bar & Grill has been the frequent scene of assaults, brawls, and drunken encounters. Last week was no different. Plymouth police swarmed the bar after a customer who was kicked out returned brandishing a knife and threatening to stab the bouncer who banished him, police say. The bar this […]
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Faced with more jail time, alleged serial thief withdraws guilty plea
She was supposed to plead guilty last Wednesday for pilfering packages from the Redbrook mailhouse in South Plymouth last summer. But Sunny McDonough, the former hair designer and a self-described “dreamer,” changed her mind when she realized the judge wasn’t going along with her lawyer’s sentence recommendation — one month in jail in exchange for […]
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Where you can’t park over the July Fourth holiday
The Fourth of July holiday is reason to celebrate our freedom (while we still can?). In Plymouth, it also means dealing with plenty of parking and road restrictions. The police department has released the details of where you can’t park on July 3 and 4. It says that “no parking” areas will be marked with […]
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‘Someone is going to get killed on one of those’
It was a cool evening in late May as two women were driving along the Plymouth waterfront, minding their own business. Then, seemingly out of nowhere, an electric bike with two teenagers riding tandem plowed headlong into their Jeep. The teens — one 14, the other 15 — were traveling north on Water Street when […]
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Plymouth man gravely wounded after vaping dispute leads to stabbing
It started as an argument over a vaping device. It turned into a bloody knife fight, with one victim stabbed multiple times and a second man threatened with death, Plymouth police said. Now, a 20-year-old Plymouth man and a 19-year-old Wilbraham woman are being held without bail, facing multiple felony charges related to the attack. […]