Category: Police & Fire

An 18-year-old Plymouth man was killed and two others injured in a head-on crash on State Road Friday morning. The accident, on a notoriously dangerous stretch of road, took place just before 8:30 a.m., according to Plymouth police. When officers and firefighters arrived at the scene, at 129 State Road, they found a gray 2020 […]

You may have seen him flipping off drivers at Colony Place, Market Basket, or other Plymouth shopping destinations. Jeremy Smith has become well-known in town — but not in a good way. When a driver earlier this month posted on the All Things Plymouth Facebook page that a man, believed to be Smith, shouted at […]

A Plymouth company has landed a contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to provide ICE agents with an app that can scan irises to tap into databases nationwide and identify people. BI2 Technologies, based in a one-floor building on State Road, signed a $4.6 million deal with ICE in September. The app […]

A police officer’s day is not easy. Like other departments, Plymouth Police deal with fatal traffic accidents, domestic violence, suicide, children’s deaths and other traumatic events – any of which can make it difficult to be emotionally and mentally prepared for the next challenge. “We have to be our best on everybody’s worst day,” said […]

David De Paula Souza, the Brazilian man pulled out of his car and taken away by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents in front of a school bus filled with middle school students Sept. 23, is being held at a detention facility in Louisiana, according to an ICE website.   “The bus driver initially described the […]

Plymouth public school bus #8 was stopped on Standish Avenue, at the intersection of Cherry Street, shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday when the middle school students aboard it got an eyewitness view of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ aggressive tactics. As the children looked on, they watched ICE officials pull a distraught man out […]

It was an incident that might have been dismissed as a silly prank had the prankster not posed as a well-known local official. A man accused of filing a phony complaint with Plymouth police inexplicably claimed to be Town Manager Derek Brindisi. The story gets stranger. The alleged impostor turned out to be a federal […]

This is the second installment of a two-part series on the Great Fire of 1900 and the prospects of such a blaze taking place today. In August, local fire officials kept an anxious eye on Hurricane Erin as it moved north along the East Coast. Most predictions had the storm staying steering clear of New […]