Contractor discovers handgun nobody knew about… plus extra news briefs… including a rare Hyannis News poem…
Hyannis – Yesterday at about 2:45pm, police were called after a contractor working at 64 Murphy Road found a handgun nobody knew about…
A BPD patrolman, sergeant, and photographer from the Barnstable County Bureau of Criminal Investigation responded…
The handgun was taken back to Barnstable Police Headquarters…
Further details were unavailable at the time of this news brief…
Hyannis News will provide more information as it becomes available…
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In other news:
One arrested after yesterday’s early morning foot pursuit…
The following is the actual BPD press release:
On Thursday May 8, 2014 at approximately 7:37 a.m. Barnstable Police Officers John O’Hare and Nathan St. Onge responded to 212 Harbor Hills Road in Centerville for a domestic disturbance. A female caller from that residence had called the police requesting help as an unwanted party was at the home banging on doors and trying to get in. The unwanted party, Nicholas Estrella, age 30, was a former resident of that address. Estrella was wanted out of Barnstable District Court on two warrants for larceny over $250.00, assault & battery, receiving stolen property and operating with a suspended license.
When officers arrived on scene Estrella fled from the rear of the home. Officer St. Onge pursued Estrella through neighboring yards and over fences while several other Barnstable Officers closed in and set up on the perimeter to assist. Estrella was able to get out of sight for just a moment and he attempted to hide. Officers St. Onge and Kevin Fullam found Estrella hiding in an outdoor shower enclosure and placed him into custody. Estrella was booked at the Barnstable Police Facility and then transported to Barnstable District Court. In addition to the two warrants Estrella was charged with resisting arrest.
The above press release was prepared by Sergeant Mark Cabral of the Barnstable Police midnight watch…
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In other news:
Marstons Mills – Late last night Barnstable Patrol units were dispatched to the intersection of Route 149 and Osterville/West Barnstable Road after a hit and run accident…
According to the victim, her car was suddenly struck by a young female driving what was initially described as a ‘light colored sedan’ which had some front end damage from the collision.
The victim said the female driver fled the scene heading in a northerly direction…
Unfortunately the victim could not provide many details and police initially had little to go on…
The victim’s vehicle had minor damage and she was not injured…
The incident remains under investigation by the BPD.
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In other news, a brief Hyannis News look at spring and its poetry:
In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin’s breast;
In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest;
In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish’d dove;
In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.
~ Excerpt from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem entitled “Locksley Hall”
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I doubt I’ll ever rise to Tennyson’s level of refinement… but my heart is in the right place… so here goes…
The following is an excerpt from a Hyannis News poem entitled “HyTown in Spring:”
Springtime is a time of abounding beginnings and returns…
… it’s a time of new growth and flower blossoms…
… a time of sharper colors and contrasting greens…
… a time when the harbor moored shed the winter plastic…
… a time when parents watch their darlin’ little layabouts spellbound by video games,
fondly remembering the days they happily got off their arses and played outdoors…
… along with bobwhites and colorful finches
returning to backyard feeders and baths.
It’s welcomed beginnings, returns, and memories…
… BUT alas and woefully least…
… it’s again that time when the drunks begin their annual migration back to the village green…
… coming to rest on sidewalks and benches after their long meandering journey from the local packy…
… or drug den.
Ah the village green, with it’s fresh mulch lightly feathered amongst the fine shrubbery…
… the occasional comatose booze-bag passed out between the daffodils…
… a lovely sight for the early tourists humming ‘Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye…’
… on their way past, toward the sea.
(Okay, so I’ll never be a Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during the 19th century… perhaps the following photo better highlights the scene…)
Above photo: Police made their presence known on the Town Hall Village Green this week after several complaints about unruly drunkards harassing the sensible sober people who would also like to share and enjoy the otherwise lovely downtown park.
5/9/2014
Robert Bastille,
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