COPPERS: Man with 79 priors and 6 active arrest warrants initially...

The following is the actual YPD press statement:

VEHICLE STOP FINDS LYING WANTED MAN ON SIX WARRANTS

On Saturday, March 31, 2018 at approximately 2:27AM, Yarmouth Police Department Midnight shift Patrol Officer Ryan Murphy observed a vehicle travelling without the rear license plate illuminated and conducted a motor vehicle stop of the white Hyundai Accent bearing Massachusetts registration 134VG7 on Route 28 near Long Pond Drive.

The female operator – identified as Beth Russell — advised Patrol Officer Murphy that she did not have a license with her. When she opened the glove compartment, Officer Murphy observed several boxes of Suboxone tablets in the glove box.

Fellow Yarmouth Police Department Patrol Officers Matt Mangano and Christopher Kent arrived on scene as back-up support.

The front seat male passenger did not have an ID and provided a name, date of birth, and social security number. A check of this found the information to be false.

A check of inside the vehicle revealed a crack pipe, scales, as well as the Suboxone boxes prescribed to the owner of the vehicle, who was not inside the vehicle.

The Yarmouth Police Emergency 911 Police Dispatch Center conducted an investigation that determined the true name of the passenger as Michael James who had six arrest warrants from several different courts.

Mr. James was placed under arrest, transported to the Yarmouth Police Department, and booked by Patrol Sergeant George Tsoukalas. During the booking process, Police Officers observed a clear plastic baggie sticking out of the bottom of his pant leg that was knotted multiple times and contained a light brown powdery substance believed to be heroin.

The packet of heroin was seized and sent to the Massachusetts Drug Lab for analysis.

A Medicare card belonging to someone else was also seized out of a wallet found in Mr. James’ pocket.

Additional charges may follow.

The suspect—who has 79 prior charges in Massachusetts—was held at Yarmouth Police Department Headquarters on no bail and transported to the Barnstable District Court this morning for processing.

Arrest: MICHAEL S. JAMES
Address: 90 KILKORE DR HYANNIS, MA
Age: 45
Charges:

Warrant Barnstable District Court
• Shoplifting, 3rd Offense
• Resisting Arrest

Warrant Barnstable District Court
• Shoplifting
• Larceny
• Receiving Stolen Property, Subsequent Offense

Warrant Barnstable District Court
• Possess Class B Cocaine

Warrant Wareham District Court
• Receiving Stolen Motor Vehicle

Warrant Wareham District Court
• Receiving Stolen Property

Warrant Fall River District Court
• Shoplifting, 3rd or more Offense

The Yarmouth Police Department continues to make significant violent crime and drug arrests and is committed to protecting our community and our citizens as we keep Yarmouth one of the safest communities in the region.

If you, or a loved one needs help, or you have information about drug distribution, violence, or any other crimes occurring in the Town of Yarmouth, please contact the Yarmouth Police Department Detective Division at 508.775.0445 extension 2134.

“Whereas it appeareth that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny; and it is believed that the most effectual means of preventing this would be, to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, ….whence it becomes expedient for promoting the publick happiness that those persons, whom nature hath endowed with genius and virtue, should be rendered by liberal education worthy to receive, and able to guard the sacred deposit of the rights and liberties of their fellow citizens, and that they should be called to that charge without regard to wealth, birth or accidental condition of circumstance.”

― Thomas Jefferson, Writings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

P.S. – Today’s Hytown Vignette is brought to you by Chet Baker… [CRANK IT ]