Editor's note: The following information has been provided by local police departments, courts and state agencies serving Patch towns. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, they do not indicate a conviction.
An Oak Bluffs man was jailed for operating under the influence of alcohol on his 30th birthday, after he was stopped while driving away and found to have a blood alcohol count nearly three times the legal limit.
Charges of breaking and entering were reduced from a felony to a misdemeanor and a charge of putting a person in fear was dropped from the case against a Vineyard Haven man.
A driver driver was arraigned on one count of leaving the scene of property damage after his battered Land Rover was found in a steep ravine along the Edgartown-Vineyard Haven Road.
A clue left on Facebook may have been the undoing of a Cape Cod construction worker suspected of breaking into a North Water Street home.
Following a two-month investigation, police arrested a Hyannis man for allegedly selling crack cocaine.
A pickup truck that was reported stolen was found partially submerged in the water on Menauhant Beach this week.
A jury found Illya Zinov not guilty on charges related to a 2009 shooting in Hyannis. Zinov faced multiple charges related to a shooting outside a duplex on Nautical Way in Hyannis in 2009.
Two Kingston residents face lewdness charges after they were arrested in separate incidents in Plymouth.
Repeat Oxycodone dealers were arrested in a Weymouth apartment drug bust this week. During the sweep of the Weymouth apartment, detectives recovered trafficking amounts of Oxycodone and several hundred dollars, and evidence of drugs dealing including several list of customers and amounts that the customers owed.
A Weymouth man was arrested for driving drunk for the fourth time.
Hingham Police this week said tragedy was avoided at a Memorial Day house party, at which 17 were arrested.
An Elderly driver told police that spilled coffee was what caused her to collide with a pole between Water Street and Winter Street in Hingham.
Milton police received a report of an unknown party found sleeping on a Central Avenue front porch.
A 38-year-old Brockton woman was arrested at the South Shore Plaza after allegedly stealing nearly $1,000 worth of handbags from Nordstrom.
Braintree police began investigating a break-in at a Dewey Road apartment that involved the theft of electronics and jewelry; among the items reported stolen were a Winne the Pooh pendant, DVD’s and jewelry.