HYANNIS – According to a source, this wasn’t the first time this mom allegedly stole things from Toys “R” Us at the Festival shopping plaza on Route 132.

Police were called last evening when store employees observed the alleged thefts in progress.

Two patrol cars responded and encountered what was described as a “very pregnant” young mother, her young child, and boyfriend in the parking lot in front of the popular toy store.

The young child was obviously upset and police chose not to arrest the mother in front of her daughter. The alleged thefts placed officers in a situation where they needed to also consider the little girl.

Officers exercised their discretion in handling this alleged crime. No further information was available at the time of this report.

HN NOTE: Shoplifting seems to occur more frequently in the fall months leading up to Christmas. We’re entering the Christmas shopping season. From past experience, HN considers this time to be one of the busiest for police and store detectives in Hyannis area.

Also, HN chose to obscure the identities of the mother, her daughter, and friend this one time. This was primarily done to protect the identity of the child. It probably will not be done again if this mother is ever caught allegedly shoplifting a second time…

In other news:

(Actual YPD press statement)

Yarmouth Police Patrol Officers and K9 Thor Arrest Two Involved in Heroin Transaction

On Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at approximately 12:15PM Yarmouth Police Department Patrol Officer Sean Geary observed two vehicles in the parking lot of Cape Cod Convenience at 50 Long Pond Drive in South Yarmouth. Inside the vehicles were people well known to Law Enforcement with numerous prior drug encounters. Within a few minutes Patrol Officer Geary conducted a vehicle stop of one of the vehicles for a having an expired safety inspection sticker on Alewife Circle. Yarmouth Police Drug Detection K9 Unit Patrol Officer Sean Gannon arrived with his partner Thor as well as Yarmouth Police Patrol Officer Diana Wells as back up. During the stop, Patrol Officer Geary observed Michael Daley drop on the ground a bundle of folded glassine envelopes commonly used as packaging for heroin by drug distributors. These envelopes were stamped “K.O.D.” Daley was placed under arrest for possession of heroin. Information was developed on the scene that Daley had just bought the heroin from Heather Bingle inside of the convenience store.

Officers returned to the store and located Bingle inside her vehicle still parked in the lot. Drug Detection K9 Thor conducted a sniff for the presence of narcotic odor on Bingle which was positive. Officer Geary went inside Cape Cod Convenience and spoke with the store manager and reviewed the surveillance footage from inside the store which showed the drug transaction between Bingle and Daley and Bingle was placed under arrest. Barnstable County Crime Scene Officer Molino was called to the scene and processed the video as evidence. Both Bingle and Daley were transported to Yarmouth Police Department and processed. Both were released by the Bail Commissioner upon payment of the standard $40 cash bail fee.

Bingle’s vehicle was towed to YPD where a more thorough search was completed. Officer Gannon and K9 Thor searched the vehicle again and K9 Thor indicated to the odor of narcotics in Bingle’s purse. Inside of Bingle’s purse was U.S. Currency used in the drug transaction. The money was seized and submitted into property. Upon further inspection of the seized heroin, there were 6 individual packages. Each package contained approximately .1 grams of heroin. The suspected heroin was field tested by Yarmouth Police Drug Enforcement Detective Christopher Kent with a positive result. The heroin was tagged and entered into property for further processing. Both Bingle and Daley are scheduled for arraignment in the Barnstable District Court today.

Arrest: MICHAEL JOSEPH DALEY Age: 45
Address: 1320 ALEWIFE CIRCLE S YARMOUTH, MA

Arrest: HEATHER ELIZABETH BINGLE Age: 24
Address: 78 CENTER ST Apt. #1-1 DENNISPORT, MA

Charges: POSSESS CLASS A HEROIN
CONSPIRACY TO VIOLATE THE MASSACHUSETTS DRUG LAWS

[This media release was prepared and distributed by Yarmouth Police Department Deputy Chief of Police Steven G. Xiarhos]

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