beat today i would just like to thank all the members of the public that showed up at meeting day and voted for the town budget and the resolution to have a committee started look at the public safety building issue for both police and fire since the last time we met the big news at a town has been the arm robbery that occurred at the cumberland farms that was back on march twenty fifth of this year at about eleven o three in the evening for those that haven't heard about it long gunman entered a store demanded money from the clerk got amount of money and fled the scene this is a description of this wilson p d in our own department we feel that these two robberies are probably done by the same sauce back for that matter the town of richmond is offering a five hundred dollar reward for any information that will lead to the arrest of this person and game stop is adding additional thousand dollars so if anybody has information if you see the photos which you know he is his face is covered but you may look at it and and recognize or think you might recognize who it may be give us a call with austin p d or detective sergeant walt smith of the middlesex state police barracks or even crime stoppers if you want to be anonymous and we'll follow up these leads were already getting some leads and eliminated several people as the prime suspects but we're working on this on a daily basis to try to solve this arm robbery arm or bridge in this county have become a scourge lately there you can't go a week now without one and there again most of our related back to the suspects most of all murdered are on heroin or some other form or drug and need money do to help with their fix so again if you have any information when you see the photos please give us a call you know thing i want to talk about today is one of the arrests since we last talked we've made eighteen arrests it's been about four or five weeks now other than the town meeting edition one of those arrests was kind of unique officer lance martell got called to a domestic assault in one of our residence in town we don't usually have domestic assaults were one attacker goes after the other attacker with a machete which is because lance was alone that night and that gentleman was taken to jail and lodged on a twenty five hundred dollars bail to be arraigned the next day in court and aggravated domestic assault and the weapon being a machete we've also like so we've made a total of eighteen arrest since we last talked one of those was on a warrant pretty simple although it was a local resident who decided not to show up in court the judge issued a warrant we want there was residence where he and corporal had to stop the car and process the mail operator local resident and it was this third offense so he was actually taken to jail doesn't get the normal citation that says you know you will appear in court in two weeks to answer this charge he went because it's a felony he went straight to death because he had jail he had two prior convictions we had six criminal d o uscis that's driving what you're like suspended those all required when it's criminal fact they all require court appearances and you have to go answer to the judge we had one possession of cocaine arrest minor amount of cocaine in a case that we were handling we had one we arrested would enter with access to emergency responses and basically what that is is it was an a domestic type situation where when the female victim try to call nine one one she actually was able to dial nine one one but the violator then took the phone away and actually threw it out the good thing is any time you dial nine one one one it goes into a dispatch center be it the state police and well as dinner one of the other three dispatch centers or shelburne p d it automatically tells us where that is and that's a good thing so became is a nine one one hang up call we responded turned out to be a good situation and corporal hansa wanted up arrest in the mail abuser for that charge which doesn't happen that often we had one arrest for false information and that's when you lie to police you try to accuse somebody else of something for your benefit and you get charged for that criminal offense we had to buy later the conditions or release and what these are and i think i've explained you know past when somebody is charged with a crime be it a dui or a domestic assault or a burglary or whatever happens the b when they're released when they have their hearing a lot of times they're released you know ninety five percent of these people don't go to jail they get released on what's called conditions the judge sets females the victim and media are male boyfriend or spouses the batterer there they can't go back at that residence and what happens is they violate those conditions of release and we get a call so and so is you know maybe at this local residents or be seen driving can be and or gets charged for another crime those people are then taken into custody and what violations or conditions of release of the court's not in session we automatically take in the jail if course in session we do the paperwork which takes anywhere from an hour have to two hours to complete it all and we take them in front of the court and have a judge here and the judge determines what happens and we also had three possession of stolen property charges and these all stem from when we talked several months ago about the search warrant we did for burglaries in town we ended up solving several other cases based on that one search warrant with two people involved and then it up with three additional charges of possession of stolen property which is it was everything from copper tubing to wiring the high expense of wiring that they use in commercial power lines and stuff like that hand tools power tools we've got so much stuff over a highway right now that we've confiscated we filled that pickup truck most of it we so far haven't been able to done it by the owners but in three of the cases we were able to dennet by victims victims came they were able to say yep this is mine this is mine and the people were charged with possession of stolen property we also because of that we also had additional charge of burglary filed which is also a felony brings the same penalty up it can bring up to fifteen years in jail  no get that but this particular one suspect he's currently out on conditions again he's got a total of twelve different criminal charges pending with overthe cases i should say twelve additional cases with over thirty charges pending all of them are mostly possession of stolen property burglaries or violations of conditions of release why they keep them out of jail i don't know we try to discuss that that's not something the state's attorneys do that's what a judge orders and we have to live with that the other thing what most people don't know here and this state and for anybody that wants one we have these in the office this is your rights this is a pamphlet and i will give the television station a copy of it so the thinking police officers in particular that the rights are you know seem to be more swayed to the suspect  accused than it is to the victims but you do have rights one thing you have the right to choose ok that means do you want to participate in that case for instance we saw a burglary case and we  some of your property in that case goes to court a lot of times if it goes to a trial the prosecutor likes to have the victims testify you know what this did to them you know you came home from work you you felt violated you got home your house was broken into property was taken sometimes it's it may not be a large monetary value a lot of times it's sentimental stuff and something that was handed down from grandma grand that worth a lot but to you it's worth a lot you can participate in those if you want and you don't have to but it's important but you don't have no an obligation to do that you also have the right to a state's attorney to advocate every state's attorney in this state has what they call a victim's advocate that's the person you'll generally deal with unless it's an actual court hearing and this person helps you with the process goes through this form step by step tells you how to seek reimbursement you know something a lot of times we saw these cases particularly if it's a burglary were money or jewelry things like that are easy to get rid of we never actually recover that product because it's gone you know goes to a pawn shop or sold some place they get their money they go buy their heroin get their fix and they go do it again the judge can order restitution most cases they do if the person is found guilty you have a right to get a percentage or that money back to you another thing victims have as a right to safety which is also on this form germany these are domestics or assaults that take place one thing you don't have to identify when we throw out a form the state's attorney will get your contact information but the  accused does not necessarily or is not going to get your information you have the right to keep it safe so when we send the paperwork in one of the forms we fill out as a witness form and it will have the police officer and his information  not have a right to have that information if for some reason you change an address and this happens quite frequently in domestic assaults the victim will go someplace outs you don't have to reveal that address to the violator a lot of times this is a case where it's a long term boyfriend girlfriend domestic partners or husband wife they don't have a right to have that you know if there's child custody issues normally the neutral location will be assigned and there are organizations that can help you with this including the victim's advocate at the state's attorney's office if a case has been processed and it's gone to the court system most people don't know that you also have a right to financial assistance most people don't know that either a lot of times we find and i've been doing this almost thirty seven years when we haven't so most again domestic assaults when the germ or the female victim does not want to pursue the case it's always over a financial considerations ninety nine percent of the time it's because they don't work or don't have an or do work at it maybe as low paying job and do not have the resources once that violators they can out of the house until their cases process which can take months and months they don't have that income coming in from the so called breadwinner and that's a real fear but here again the victim's advocate can assist her help you getting financial assistance if you're a victim of a crime and you need that kind of money to help with paying bills or whatever happens to be here again that would be through your local state's attorney's office and you have a right to be notified most people don't know this either when you're a victim of a crime you have a right to know when a the arraignments are b if when the trial is if there's going to be a trial see if there's a senate saying hearing or a same thing is going to take place if the person is going to jail or going to be released on conditions you have a right to know all of that or if say that you're a victim of domestic assault or some other kind of case of sexual assault and that person has gone to jail for whatever time limit and may be you also have a right to know when that person's going to be released from jail and where they're supposed to be housed this is all again is through the victim's assistance in the court system you also have a right to be heard and that means you've got to speak up if you want to tell a story you have to tell you can be heard there's also information for victims of both domestic and sexual assault as many organizations especially in this county that helps both financially spiritually emotionally mentally and even physically predict them so both domestic and sexual assaults and there are statewide resources for this it's not just the cheating county there are organizations that throughout the state that help people like that and here again like i said in the twenty four hours most of the time there are eight hundred toll free number all this information you can get hopefully when our new  town website which supposedly went online today one of the things that i will address is trying to get this form on to that web page when you click on the link to the police department one of the things you're going to see is complaints and comments and  to other things like the victims assistance forms that people should be aware of so it's been fairly busy with the weather picking up you know traffic work has gone back up in the last four or five weeks we've written for probably six weeks now we were at one hundred ninety two traffic tickets everything from speeding to vehicles not inspected to texting texting is becoming a problem we're stopping people now w what we think might be drunk the way they're driving and we find out that they're sitting there on their little whatever texting while they're one of my officers got one yesterday at eighty miles an hour and he was coming back from sheer  chevrolet on the interstate he had to go take a cruiser to get repaired and here's this car all over the road pulls up beside him to get a look at the operator he's sitting there he's eighteen years old doing eighty miles an hour with both fingers texting steering knee that's a five point two hundred twenty dollar ticket he was issued the ticket for that we also issued two hundred three warnings and twenty six parking tickets most of the parking tickets resulted from the winter parking ban and the town highway department calls us they can't yeld plowed a certain area because somebody has left their vehicle in the road we've actually had to have a couple of them  so that's pretty much in a nutshell what we've done that's been this is that time of year now we're today i'm trying to write some grants i got there's short timelines i just i went to a training last weekend and now i've got i have to have everything done and written and to the state police headquarters by april eighteenth we write these grants every year because that's how we get a lot of our equipment i've explained this before you know we just got a five thousand dollars quick grant i'm writing a five thousand dollar anytime overtime grant that is to assist us in accent reduction i'm writing another grant which we already have some which will expire in september and do you i enforcement and we just got one that i had plied for not too long ago for just under six thousand dollars to replace our portable radios because there are a thousand dollars apiece for a portable we're police radio and we don't have that money in the budget but we're going to be getting their barb in order we'll be getting six new ones here hopefully the next few weeks we have to pay the funds upfront get the cancelled check so to speak and then we file for reimbursement so the funding we always have to pay the funds upfront and then we get reimbursed through the state or through the federal government that's all we have today and we'll see you again in a few weeks