ABOVE: Early-morning scene in a West Yarmouth condo complex parking lot: a dark Hyundai sedan sits stopped with several young adult occupants, surrounded by multiple Yarmouth Police patrolmen, appearing slightly annoyed…

WEST YARMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS — Shortly after 2 a.m. Wednesday, a tandem Yarmouth Police patrol unit radioed that they were trying to catch up to a dark-colored Hyundai sedan racing westbound on Route 28 at more than 60 mph.

Officers were attempting to get close enough to read the vehicle’s New Jersey registration when the car suddenly turned south onto Baxter Avenue — a thickly settled residential street — and continued at estimated speeds exceeding 60 mph. Fearing the driver was refusing to stop, additional Yarmouth patrol units raced to the area.

A witness reported the Hyundai eventually barreled into the parking lot of a quiet condo complex before finally coming to a stop for police. Radio traffic indicated the sedan was a rental from Wayne, New Jersey.

The driver, identified over the radio only as “Dave” with a last name that sounded like “Sajinski,” produced a valid New York license listing a Middle Village address in Queens, New York. His full name had not been officially released at the time of this report.

According to police sources, the man was issued a citation and faces criminal motor vehicle charges. Officers, sources noted, were less than thrilled about the high-speed intrusion into the residential neighborhood in the middle of the night — thankfully, nobody was hurt!

ABOVE: After dark at Keyes Beach on Sea Street in Hyannis, a Barnstable Police patrolman chats congenially with several gentlemen grilling dinner in the park’s picnic area. The friendly check was part of stepped-up nighttime beach patrols targeting unpermitted bonfires and other ordinance violations following recent reports of unruly behavior. (Officers later found and had firefighters extinguish an illegal pallet fire at the end of Bone Hill Road on Barnstable’s north side, sending a group of teens home after some of their parents were contacted, according to radio transmissions.)

ABOVE: Shortly before 3 a.m., Mashpee police officers respond to an automated crash notification and discover a vehicle that left the roadway and crashed into a wooded area along Great Neck Road North. Emergency lights illuminate the dark scene as officers investigate; the driver was not injured, and sources confirm no criminal charges were filed following the crash investigation.

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