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| Cape Conversations | Buff Chace on Mashpee Commons, Zoning, Affordable Housing, and More! Wednesday June 17, 2026 |
| Cape Conversations | Buff Chace on Mashpee Commons, Zoning, Affordable Housing, and More! |
| Surveillance Video Leads Grand Jury to Indict West Yarmouth Man on Manslaughter Charges in Double Overdose Deaths Wednesday June 17, 2026 |
| YARMOUTH, MASSACHUSETTS ? A Barnstable County grand jury has indicted a 29-year-old West Yarmouth man on two counts of manslaughter for his role in the fatal overdoses of two men at Englewood Beach last October.
Cape & Islands District Attorney Robert J. Galibois announced today that the grand jury returned the indictments on June 12, 2026, against Malik Franklin. The victims have been identified as Dean Monterio and Lucas Escabi.
On October 27, 2024, their bodies were discovered at Englewood Beach. Preliminary findings pointed to overdoses on illegal narcotics. Investigators with the Massachusetts State Police, working under Operation Last Call and assigned to the Cape & Islands DA's Office, examined the victims' phones and reviewed beach surveillance footage.
The video shows both men entering Franklin's vehicle. They consumed illegal narcotics in the backseat before exiting the car and collapsing to the ground. Franklin initially drove away but quickly returned, got out, walked over to each victim, and then left the scene again.
Phone records showed that Monterio's last three calls that night were to Franklin. Investigators determined the men had met Franklin earlier that evening in Hyannis before meeting him a second time at the beach.
Franklin was arraigned today in Barnstable Superior Court and ordered held on $100,000 bail. His next court date is July 17, 2026. No booking photo of the suspect was provided with today's press release. First Assistant District Attorney Jessica Elumba will prosecute the case.
The investigation was conducted by the Massachusetts State Police Detectives Unit assigned to the Cape & Islands DA's Office, the State Police STOP unit, the Yarmouth Police Department, and the Mashpee Police Department.
?Fatal overdose investigations are among the most difficult cases our prosecutors and law enforcement partners undertake,? District Attorney Galibois said. ?The outstanding work of the investigators and officers whose diligence, attention to detail, and unwavering commitment to public safety led to these indictments. Their efforts reflect our shared determination to combat the overdose crisis and provide some solace to the victims' loved ones.?
All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. |
| Ski-Masked Vandal Smashes Barnstable Flock Camera with 2×4 in Cotuit Wednesday June 17, 2026 |
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COTUIT, MASSACHUSETTS ? A ski-masked figure armed with a two-by-four launched a late-night attack on one of the Town of Barnstable's Flock surveillance cameras along Route 28 near the Santuit-Newtown Road intersection, damaging the solar-powered unit and prompting a police manhunt that came up empty.
Barnstable Police responded shortly before midnight Monday, June 15, 2026, after a passerby spotted the assault on the automated license plate reader (ALPR) camera mounted high on a pole overlooking Route 28 traffic. Officers found the camera and its solar panel damaged. The suspect had already fled.
The damaged camera is one of four Flock Safety units currently operated by Barnstable Police under contract with the Atlanta-based company. According to a March 18, 2026 report in the Provincetown Independent, three of the cameras are mounted on free-standing black poles equipped with solar panels ? including the one on Route 28 in front of Lujean Printing Company near the Mashpee border (in the Cotuit/Santuit area), which was the camera vandalized Monday night. The fourth camera is mounted overhead from a light pole on Main Street in downtown Hyannis. One additional known location is near the intersection of Main Street and Barnstable Road in Hyannis.
Flock Safety cameras are automated license plate readers (ALPRs) that capture still images of every passing vehicle. They record license plate numbers (including temporary and out-of-state tags), vehicle color, make and model, plus distinctive details such as roof racks, bumper stickers or visible damage ? all timestamped with exact location data. The information feeds into a searchable cloud database that Barnstable police and other agencies can query to help solve crimes.
The technology has drawn sharp criticism from privacy advocates. The ACLU of Massachusetts has warned that Flock's interconnected network enables ?indiscriminate surveillance? by creating detailed, warrantless travel profiles of ordinary drivers and sharing that data across a nationwide system used by thousands of law enforcement agencies. The group's ?Get The FLOCK Out? campaign calls for stronger state regulations, noting that at least 80 Massachusetts departments now use Flock systems.
Local police departments ? including agencies across the entire state ? counter that the cameras are a vital modern tool for quickly identifying suspects in fast-moving crimes, recovering stolen vehicles and removing dangerous drivers from Cape Cod roads, according to recent online news reports.
In a striking irony, while the targeted camera successfully logged routine traffic data from Route 28, it captured no clear immediate images of the masked attacker who struck it. According to police radio transmissions, officers only had a basic description of the suspect ? including clothing ? provided by the passerby who witnessed the attack.
A Barnstable Police K9 unit arrived and tracked the suspect north across Route 28 behind a house under construction. Officers discovered a pile of two-by-four lumber in the backyard but found no sign of the vandal. A member of the Barnstable County Sheriff's Office Bureau of Criminal Investigations responded to document the damaged camera and collect potential evidence from the scene.
The investigation remains active. Barnstable Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact the department. Based on the cost of the damage, the suspect could face felony vandalism charges if apprehended.
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| Cape Conversations | Buff Chase on Mashpee Commons, Zoning, Affordable Housing, and More! Wednesday June 17, 2026 |
| Cape Conversations | Buff Chase on Mashpee Commons, Zoning, Affordable Housing, and More! |
| Exterior fire quickly doused in Mashpee Tuesday June 16, 2026 |
| MASHPEE ? A fire on the exterior of a house in Mashpee was quickly doused. Firefighters responded to Simons Narrows Road near Spinnaker Drive shortly before 4 PM Tuesday. The fire appeared to have originated near an outdoor shower. Firefighters confirmed the fire was kept from spreading into the home. No injuries were reported. Further [?] |
| Near-drowning victim pulled from Wakeby Pond in Mashpee Monday June 15, 2026 |
| MASHPEE ? A man reportedly nearly drowned at Wakeby Pond off Lake Avenue shortly after 6 PM Monday. Rescue swimmers responded quickly to the report of a man having gone under and were able to locate him. CPR was being performed as the victim was carried to an ambulance and rushed to a hospital. Further [?] |
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