Police, Fire & Courts

Recent arrests for disturbances, motor vehicle offenses

Police have made many arrests, largely for disturbances and motor vehicle offenses, over the last several weeks. At 5:15 a.m. on September 5, Wareham Police Detectives arrested a male in Boston as part of a confidential investigation. Noah C...

Man arrested following road rage incident

Chad Dunfee, 41, of Wareham, was arrested at 12:27 a.m. on Sunday, September 15, following a road rage incident. Officers responded to 16 Shady Ln. regarding a past road rage incident. While officers were speaking with someone, police say Dunfee...
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Teen charged with threats sentenced to 2.5 years, probation

Domenic Albanese, the 19-year-old charged with multiple threats to fast food restaurants on Cranberry Highway in summer 2018, pled guilty to all charges and has been sentenced to two and a half years in the Dedham House of Corrections, followed by...

East Wareham man arrested for car break-in, resisting arrest

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Brendin Akusis, 24, of East Wareham was arrested on Saturday night for allegedly breaking into a car in the Master Mufflers parking lot on Cranberry Highway. According to police, at about 9:30 p.m. on September 7, Special Officer Malik Wilkes...

Recent arrests

Wareham Police have made a number of arrests in recent weeks, including several for outstanding warrants. On August 30, Michelle Hunter, 39, of Wareham, was arrested at 6:15 p.m. by Officer Aaron Pacheco and Reserve Officer Aaron Swartz at the Woods...

Police seek help in larceny case

The Wareham Police Department is looking for help identifying a man suspected of stealing 18 pairs of Apple AirPods — worth more than $3,000 — from Target at 10 a.m. on Friday, August 30. The car marked in the photo is the one police believe the...

Arrests for shoplifting, active warrants

Wareham Police have made a number of arrests, including several for shoplifting, over the last week. Nick Bassett, 31, of East Wareham, was arrested by Officers Calib Larue, Stephen Harrison, and Peter Silvia on Repose Lane at 2:49 a.m. on Friday,...

Stay out of the Canal

The Wareham Department of Natural Resources urged residents to abstain from entering or transiting the Cape Cod Canal on a kayak, jet skis, SUPs and other vessels. This activity is extremely dangerous due to the massive water flow. Rolling waves can...

Police and Fire Departments seek help in fire investigation

State and Onset Fire Departments are seeking help to solve the case of two suspicious in nature fires, with the most recent occurring on Tuesday, August 20. State Fire Marshal Peter J. Ostroskey, Onset Fire Chief Raymond Goodwin, and Wareham Acting...

Arrest follows theft from Mass Coastal Railway

An East Wareham man was arrested early on the morning of Monday, August 19, after an hours-long search. At about 1:10 a.m., Officer Ryan Turner and Juvenile Detective Karl Baptiste responded to the Mass Coastal Railroad office on Cranberry Highway...

Recent arrests

Over the course of a week, the Wareham Police made following arrests: Officers Christopher Corner and Joseph Cardoza arrested Matthew Mello, 36, of no certain address, for shoplifting at Stop and Shop on Tuesday. The next day, Officers Blaise Lalli...

Two summoned for selling alcohol to minors

The Wareham Police are summoning two people to court for selling alcohol to minors at two Wareham liquor stores. A Wareham Police detective saw a man he knew was not 21 years of age enter the Liquor Locker package store on Cranberry Highway on...

Couple flees after trespassing a boat in Onset

Wareham Police are searching for a man and woman after they boarded a boat at Onset Pier before fleeing when they realized the owners were on the boat. The Wareham Department of Natural Resources reported that at approximately 2:10 a.m. on August 15...

79-year-old arrested for trafficking cocaine

A 79-year-old Wareham man has been arrested for trafficking cocaine and other drug charges following a joint investigation by Wareham Police Department and the Taunton Police. On the morning of Tuesday, August 13, Wareham police raided the home at...

Wareham Police weekend roundup

Over a short period of two days, the Wareham Police Department made a series of arrests. On Saturday, August 10, Officer Calib Larue arrested a man after a motor vehicle stop on Cranberry Highway at around 1:40 a.m. He charged Colton Brown, 21, of...

Police make arrests for warrants, disturbance, shoplifting

The Wareham Police Department has made the following arrests since the beginning of the week. On Monday, August 5, Juvenile Detective Karl Baptiste and Officer Charles Pillsbury arrested Michael Carter, 26, of East Wareham, on Cranberry Highway for...

Wareham Police charged man with larceny

Wareham Police charged an East Bridgewater man with larceny after he had been reportedly trying to break into vehicles at Robertson’s GMC at 2680 Cranberry Highway early on Friday morning. At 2:11 a.m., Wareham Police Officers Calib Larue, Stephen...

Recent arrests

Wareham Police have had a busy week. Thomas Tavares, 61, of no certain address, was arrested by Officer Nate Aronson and Reserve Officer Eric Kanavos for disorderly conduct at 10:15 p.m. on Friday, July 26. The arrest was made following a...

Police arrest three sex offenders

A total of three people were arrested and charged with failing to register as sex offenders. The Wareham Police arrested them on Monday, August 5. At 1:45 p.m., John Candelora, 54, of no certain address, was arrested by Officer Susan Kucinski and a...

Police Association Golf Tournament

The Wareham Police Association will be hosting a golf tournament on September 14 at the Little Harbor Country Club, 1 Little Harbor Rd. Proceeds will be donated to Cops for Kids with Cancer. T-time will be at 8 a.m. The tournament will be a scramble...

Electrical fire at Brandy Hill Apartments quickly put out

An electrical fire in the wall of a unit at Brandy Hill Apartments was quickly extinguished by the Wareham Fire Department early in the afternoon of Monday, August 5. A neighbor called in to report the smell of smoke in building 2 of the complex,...

Wareham man arrested after found unconscious in running car

A Wareham man was arrested after he was found unconscious in his running car, located half in a construction zone and half in an active travel lane in Chelsea. State troopers found the man unconscious with his foot on the brake. They attempted to...

Recent police arrests

The Wareham Police are keeping up the hard work after successfully nabbing a suspect following a long search on Wednesday with a series of other arrests. After a two-hour search on Wednesday, July 24 at 11:45 a.m. officer Christopher Corner arrested...

Shoplifter spurs chase, two-hour search

What began as a shoplifting incident at the Rite-Aid in Wareham Plaza escalated to a car chase, a crash involving a cruiser, and a two hour search for the suspect on July 24. According to the Wareham Police: Officers responded to the pharmacy at 2:...

UPDATE: Man arrested for daytime break-in

A young woman on Swifts Beach Road was involved in a struggle at her doorway as a man tried to break in on Monday morning. Here is how Elana Brandt, 25, who prevented the man from entering, tells the story: Brandt was still asleep when she heard the...

Recent arrests

Wareham Police made a number of arrests over the past week. On Wednesday, July 17, Kyle Silva, 50, of New Bedford, was arrested at 4:05 p.m. by Officer Charles Pillsbury and Sergeant Kevin Reilly in Onset Center, following a scuffle in which...

Wareham Police weekend round up: Shoplifting, heroin possession, active warrants

On Wednesday, July 10, at 5 p.m., Yvonne Martin, 45, of Onset, arrested at Stop and Shop for shoplifting by Officer Charles Pillsbury. Later that night, at 8 p.m., Deshaun Webb, 25, of Onset, was arrested by a detective and Officer Christopher...

Fire Department extinguishes trash truck on I-195

The Wareham Fire Department started the workweek by knocking down a blazing fire in a trash truck just before exit 21 on I-195 East at about 7 a.m. on Monday morning. When crews arrived, the tractor was fully engulfed in flames, and all occupants...

Wareham teens arrested in Sandwich

Three young men from Wareham were arrested in Sandwich following an armed robbery early on Saturday morning. At about 12:35 a.m. on July 13, Sandwich police responded to Tarragon Drive for a report of “kids” causing a disturbance. Officers observed...

After a bike was stolen from a student, police officers bought her a new one

When a bike was stolen from a 20-year-old Dunkin Donuts worker in East Wareham, the Wareham Police Association did more than investigate the crime. They bought her a new bike. The call came in at around 10.30 a.m. on Thursday, July 11. The bike was...

Arrests on July 8, 9

The Wareham Police have made several arrests this week. On Monday, July 8, at 5:15 p.m. Officers Lorenzo Grosso and Christopher Corner arrested Michael Smith Jr., 28, of Middleboro, on Swifts Beach Road for three active warrants. On Tuesday,...

Wareham Police Officer Retiring After 32 Years

After 32 years of devoted and honorable service to the town, Officer Richard Robidoux is retiring from the Wareham Police Department. His final day of service was on Monday July 8, 2019. Officer Robidoux worked as summer special officer in 1985 and...

Police review activity over the first six months of the year

Over the first six months of this year, Wareham Police responded to a total of 3,810 emergency calls, for an average of about 21 calls to 911 each day, according to Acting Chief John Walcek. The department not only responded to police reports and...

Arrests from the July 4 weekend

Police made a number of arrests over the holiday weekend, including some that cannot be disclosed to the public. Shawna Costa, 29, of Onset, was arrested by Officer Robert McLain and Sergeant Daniel Henderson at 5:52 a.m. on Wednesday, July 3, for...

East Wareham man arrested for slamming another man’s head onto a car hood

Police say a Wareham man slammed another driver’s head into the hood of a car several times during a road rage dispute. It happened Wednesday, July 3 at 1:15 p.m. on Plymouth Avenue. Edward Robinson, 45, of East Wareham, was reported to have jumped...

Recent arrests

The Wareham Police Department has made a number of arrests since Monday, June 25. Other arrests were made but can not published because of privacy laws forbidding public disclosure. Raymond Sylvia III, 28, of Wareham, was arrested for an active...

Juvenile arrested after accosting woman with baby

Police have apprehended a juvenile who allegedly physically accosted a woman walking with her baby on 11th Street near Waban Avenue at about 10:15 a.m. on Sunday. During the course of her walk, she observed the male on East Boulevard. A few moments...

Man arrested for charges related to cocaine worth nearly $50,000

Following several weeks of investigation, Wareham Police detectives executed a search warrant and arrested a man who was in possession of drugs with an estimated street value of $47,000. At about 10 a.m. on Wednesday, June 26, a detective who was...

Monday arrests

Wareham Police arrested two men on Monday, June 24. At about 9:15 a.m., police responded to a report of a disturbance at the Speedway Gas on Main Street. Officers arrived to find a man, who seemed extremely agitated, yelling at someone. He had been...

Police make three arrests following a drug raid

Three people were arrested on drug charges following a raid in Wareham on Monday morning, Wareham Police Chef John Walcek said. While investigating citizen complaints about illegal drug activity at 67 Jefferson Shores Road, officers stopped a...

Recent arrests for drug, motor vehicle offenses

Wareham Police arrested a number of people this week for drug and motor vehicle offenses, alongside other charges. At 5:45 p.m. on Thursday, June 20, Hunter Detrani, 21, of Plymouth, was arrested by Officers Lorenzo Grosso and Christopher Corner on...