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. […]
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ICE arrests in Plymouth upend lives, raise concerns
Josiana Cruz Silva has been crying and praying since her husband was plucked off a Plymouth street by ICE agents last month. After being taken to Burlington, and then back to Plymouth, Daniel Nogueira Capuzzo, 39, was moved to Arizona. Now he’s being held in Colorado, where, Silva said, her husband is surrounded by criminals. […]
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How did he get away with it for so long?
As Plymouth schools’ food services manager sits at home, tethered to an electronic monitor while awaiting his next court appearance, people all over town are asking one key question: How was Patrick Van Cott allegedly able to steal food, equipment, and other goods for decades without getting caught? Van Cott, 62, who pleaded not guilty […]
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ICE agents capture man facing deportation in Miami
A man living in Plymouth but facing deportation proceedings in Florida was taken into custody by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents Friday morning after he was found hiding in Vine Hills Cemetery. When ICE agents approached him, the man fled by car into the cemetery off Summer Street where he struck multiple headstones, according […]
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School food services director faces theft charges, held on $50,000 bail
He’s been the Plymouth Public Schools’ food services director for more than 20 years. Police say he may have been stealing from the town for almost as long. Patrick Van Cott, 62, was arrested this week after Plymouth police, acting on a tip, discovered he could have been pilfering school equipment and food for decades, […]
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ICE agents cause a stir in North Plymouth
Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents descended on North Plymouth early Friday morning in a surprise visit that Police Chief Dana Flynn said raised safety concerns and Select Board Chair Kevin Canty called “unacceptable.” It is unclear what or who ICE was looking for, but Flynn said he was unaware of any arrests. In a […]
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Plymouth man charged in crash that killed his passenger
A 30-year-old Plymouth man has been charged with manslaughter and motor vehicle homicide, accused of causing a crash that killed a passenger in his car last summer. Anthony M. Bradley had been cited for multiple driving infractions — and had his license suspended — in the years leading up to the August 30 accident in […]