B&E SUSPECT AT LARGE: K-9 Rocky sprayed by skunk for second time in about a week… YPD K-9 takes over track… [Video plus other news briefs]
Top photo: Patrolman Sean Roycroft and Rocky return to their cruiser after skunk interfered with their track…
HYANNIS – A woman woke up from sleeping on her living room couch and found a strange man in her kitchen last night.
Last night at about 10:35pm Police rushed to an address on Captain Ellis Lane after a woman reported an intruder in her kitchen.
The intruder had been grabbing some juice boxes before he fled out the back door after being spotted by the woman.
Police put out a description and set up a perimeter. The suspect was described as a white man in his 30s.
Patrolman Sean Roycroft and Police Dog Rocky, a Belgian Malinois, arrived and hit the ground tracking.
Rocky appeared to be onto something when suddenly he found himself the target of skunk spray. Roycroft radioed that Rocky had, indeed, been sprayed by a skunk. Rocky was no longer able to track. A Yarmouth K-9 was immediately called in to salvage the track where Rocky had left off.
[Note: Police sources report that Rocky was also sprayed by a skunk last week while tracking in the Hyannisport area. Poor Rocky and Roycroft!]
The following video shows Roycroft and Rocky returning to their cruiser. You could smell Rocky from about a block away.
Roycroft and Rocky persisted while suffering the strong odor inside the cruiser as they took the Yarmouth K-9 team back to were they had left off.
As of 2am, police sources reported they were unable to locate the Breaking and Entering suspect. Rocky was not reported injured but did need to be washed.
Both the intruder and his skunk accomplice remain at large this morning. The incident is actively being investigated by the Barnstable Police Department.
The following video highlights the changing of the K-9s… [Press play]
In other news:
A bicyclist was hurt after she was struck by a car yesterday evening.
Hyannis Rescue and Barnstable Police responded to an accident on West Main Street. A young woman was riding her bike when another woman struck her with her car while making a turn into a parking lot in the area of the Melody Tent.
The car dragged the bike from the street into the lot.
The young woman's injuries were not considered life threatening and she was transported to CCH.
In other news:
A troubled man became violent at Cape Cod Hospital last evening.
Police responded after being called by hospital security. A man dressed in a white robe was arrested for Assault and Battery, as well as Intimidation of a Witness. He was transported back to BPD Headquarters for booking. [The man is known to police and hospital staff... and HN is withholding the suspect's identity for the time being...]
8/20/2014
Robert Bastille
rjbastille@yahoo.com
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