My investigation of the past four months of the Maynard Beacon-Villager (which also covers neighboring Stow) did not disappoint. Below are 23 of the best entries between January 1st and the most current issue of the newspaper. I’ve found that the style of writing has changed since the days when I used to follow along in print; back then, the sentences were written more fluidly, and names of those arrested were not withheld. But now the log seems to be published in the same shorthand that it was initially recorded in, which can make for some awkward and confusing sentences. I therefore cleaned up and edited where applicable. Also, specific officers are usually referred to as “S3″ or “S12″; I just changed the S to Officer to make it clearer.
Stow – Monday, Jan. 2, 1:41 p.m. Walk-in reporting that while on his deck New Year’s Eve, he observed a red and orange disc-like object which he could not identify fly over Stow towards Maynard. He was wondering if anyone reported seeing it. Officer 3 advised.
Stow – Thursday, Jan. 5, 1:57 a.m. Caller on No Name Road states there is a group of kids outside and one of them is her son. Officer 12 checked the house and surrounding area.
Maynard – Sunday, Jan. 8, 3:38 p.m. Acton Police reports they received call regarding kids doing bong hits in a motor vehicle, heading toward Maynard. Officers checking area.
Stow - Tuesday, Jan. 10, 8:43 p.m. Caller on No Name Road reports the neighbors are spying on her. Officer 10 advised son.
Maynard – Saturday. Jan. 14, 7:01 p.m. Caller on Roosevelt Street reports four orbs circling each other in the northeast sky. Car 36 responding to speak with caller. No orbs or UFOs, just high-powered lights, maybe from MCI Concord.
Stow – Friday, Jan. 20, 9:32 a.m. Caller reporting seeing a UFO last Saturday night. She is going to call the weather service to see if they received any reports. No reports of UFO sightings to police station for that night.
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A 48-year-old father of a teenager apparently jumped out of a first-floor window when police broke up an alleged underage drinking party last week at his home in Hudson.
After a short foot chase, police captured Tim Vinciullo in woods behind his home on Seneca Drive on Friday night in the Central Massachusetts town. He has been charged with delivering alcohol to minors.
Seems Vinciullo had a weakness for hosting teen drinking soirees at his abode, even as he risked his wife’s career as a high school track coach.
Then he ran from the house like a startled bird because the cops showed up!
It’s YOUR house, idiot! They already know where you live!
Hudson High School boys’ cross-country coach Kathy Vinciullo resigned yesterday, the same day her husband and son — a captain on her team — were accused in Marlboro District Court of throwing an underage drinking party at their home Friday night.
“She resigned for personal reasons,” Superintendent of Schools Stephen Dlott said yesterday. He did not comment further on the resignation.
Brian Vinciullo, a 17-year-old senior and track athlete at Hudson High School, is now subject to Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association procedures and disciplinary action based on the high school athletics program rules and regulations. Mr. Dlott declined to say whether Brian Vinciullo has already faced discipline based on his arrest Friday night.
The high school senior and his father, Tim Vinciullo, 48, were arrested Friday night at their home at 30 Seneca Drive, where police said six teenagers were drinking.
Tim Vinciullo jumped out a rear window of his house when he saw police coming to the door, according to Hudson Police Capt. David A. Stephens.
Police on patrol Friday night as part of a state alcohol enforcement grant were in the area of Seneca Drive, they reported, when they saw a teenage boy in the driveway area of 30 Seneca Drive.
According to Capt. Stephens, police had been to the same house within a week or so, warning the homeowners about underage drinking parties there.
“It appeared another party was going on,” Capt. Stephens said. “The homeowners had just been warned.”
Three plainclothes officers went back to the home and one of them saw Tim Vinciullo leave through a window, police said.
Police caught him in a wooded area not far from the home.
You might be inclined to mock Vinciullo’s belief that he could escape from the po-po on foot.
However, this is a guy married to a track coach, with a speedy son, and he himself is no slouch – a quick Google search reveals he tallied a respectable 19:33 5k in a recent Pilgrim Road Race!
It probably seemed like a good plan when he was climbing out the window with the Man hot on his trail, except for the fact that he’s pushing 50 and they already knew where he lived.
Meanwhile, his son’s Facebook picture looks (when magnified) like it was taken during the midst of a classic Vinciullo booze fest:
Let’s put this in perspective.
By comparison to the criminal sleaze who plied teenage cheerleaders with booze, a stripper pole and old man kisses in Bethehem, PA, Tim Vinciullo is practically an upstanding citizen.
However, when the Hudson cops’ “party patrol” has put a bullseye on your house as the epicenter of teen drinking in town, because you can’t put a lid on the cooler when your son and his posse are around – while your wife is employed in a position of responsibility with the same teens you let run wild – and when the moment of reckoning finally comes, you flee into the night…
Charles Clemens Jr. lived in an Overland Park, KS apartment complex with his wife of two decades.
Apparently life got a little dull or what have you, because he then wooed a second middle-aged lady and married her – without divorcing or even informing his first wife.
Clemens then stole his elderly father’s ID – since they have the same name and all – and used the old man’s social security number to obtain a second apartment in the same complex where his unwitting first wife still turned down the covers for him!
Apparently Clemens was all about living a double life, but only on the most convenient of terms.
This audacious scheme apparently worked for a few years…
Then the second wife came a knocking on the first wife’s door!
The KANSAS CITY STAR has the startling details:
Authorities allege that a 61-year-old Overland Park man was married simultaneously to two women who lived in the same apartment complex.
Charles L. Clemens Jr. made his first court appearance Wednesday, charged with bigamy and other felonies.
The case began in November when police were called to the apartment of his first wife on a domestic dispute, authorities said. They found Clemens with both women after being called by the second wife.
“She went over to the apartment and confronted him and also found out that he is married to the other woman,” said Johnson County Sheriff’s Deputy Tom Erickson.
After a long inquiry, police arrested Clemens this week.
He was married to his first wife for 22 years, Erickson said. Court records say the second marriage occurred in January 2006. Both women are in their 50s.
Clemens also faces an identity theft charge. Erickson said he allegedly used his father’s Social Security number to lease one of the apartments near 141st Street and Metcalf Avenue.
Clemens also was charged with pawning some of his second wife’s jewelry without permission and with stealing at least $1,000 from her.
You really have to feel sorry for the first wife here. The second wife is obviously intelligent and resourceful enough to figure out this guy’s game in a few short years. Meanwhile, Bride #1 has been falling for this rat’s schemes since the 80s.
Fight Bigamy has duly noted its case in its dishonor roll of polyamorous pricks.
The 44-year-old playboy researched his targets diligently before approaching potential victims in luxury hotels, expensive spa retreats and chic ski resorts. His encounters with rich but lonely women in Germany, Austria and Switzerland generated a lucrative stream of earnings.
Letters written by Helg Sgarbi, which were leaked to the German press, revealed how he used a potent mixture of flattery and sexual allusions to earn their affections.
“Dearest, do you remember how we fused in lust on the beach and you groaned loudly with passion?” he wrote to one woman.
He told another “very special lady”: “You live for love, and you are right to do so, because that is what life is all about.”
He was disarmingly frank when he first came to the attention of Swiss police in 2001. “I live off money that women give me,” he told them.
Nicknamed ‘James Bond’ by some of his conquests for his smooth-talking charm, he boasted that he could read women “like a map”.
He spun several of his unsuspecting lovers the same terrifying tale to extract large sums of money. Sgarbi told his victims he had been involved in a car accident in the US in which he had injured the daughter of a mafia mobster.
Unless he could come up with several million dollars in ‘compensation’, the mob would kill him, he claimed.
It was a surprisingly successful ruse, netting him millions of pounds until police finally caught up with him last year after his latest victim, billionaire German heiress Susanne Klatten, refused to give in to any further blackmail.
As the preceding report from the TELEGRAPH descibes, Swiss gigolo Helg Scarbi scammed millions of Euros from women he tricked into sleeping with him and then helping him pay an imaginary debt.
However, his lil’ scheme evaporated when he tried to blackmail Germany’s richest woman for 49 million in E-money.
How did a no-account fraudster from the land of neutrality charm the underpants off of high society Euro dames?
Mrs Klatten told German police after Sgarbi was arrested: “He was charming, attentive and at the same time seemed very sad. That stirred a feeling in me that we had something in common.”
But the German public and press have been intrigued as to why a woman who had a famous name, a loving family and an unimaginably large fortune would risk everything for a fast-talking fraudster of no more than average good looks.
Zing!! We’re not such who got slammed harder there, the gigolo or his victim.
Klatten: Scammed by an ave-bo
What’s worse, it turns out that this mediocre-looking scam artist made secret sex tapes of himself and Klatten with help from a shady Italian hotelier!
Mrs Klatten is the daughter of BMW magnate Herbert Quandt and holds a 46-per cent stake in the company in conjunction with her mother and brother. She also owns a 88.3-per cent share of chemical company Altana.
At first the married mother-of-three spurned Sgarbi’s advances but began an affair when the smooth-talking Sgarbi turned up unexpectedly in the south of France where she was on holiday the following month.
Later in August 2007 they met in a Holiday Inn hotel in Munich – where Klatten believed she would not run the risk of bumping into any acquaintances – for an “intimate” encounter that Sgarbi secretly filmed, according to the charges.
In September they met at the same hotel and this time Sgarbi allegedly said that he needed 10 million euros because he had injured a little girl in a car crash in Florida – asking Klatten to lend him a cool seven million euros.
Klatten swallowed his story, handing over the sum in the underground garage of the Holiday Inn in a cardboard box containing 14 plastic folders each with a thousand 500-euro banknotes.
Sgarbi then told the 46-year-old to leave her husband and put into a trust fund 290 million euros to fund their new life together.
Klatten then ended the relationship.
But then Sgarbi turned nasty, according to prosecutors, threatening to send compromising video footage of the two together to the press and to her husband, among others.
This time he allegedly demanded 49 million euros, which he subsequently reduced to 14 million euros, and set a deadline of January 15 last year. But she had long since informed the police, and Sgarbi was arrested.
Let’s tryst at the Holiday Inn, I surely wouldn’t associate with anyone who would be seen at such a place!
The INDEPENDENT has a revenge-conspiracy angle that’s pretty juicy in a story entitled “The Gigolo, the German Heiress and a $6m Revenge For Her Nazi Legacy”:
And not only because of the stratospheric wealth of Ms Klatten, and the hole the affair has punched in the privacy of one of Germany’s most discreet business dynasties. But also because Helg Sgarbi – if leaks from the interrogation of his partner are to be believed – was much more than just a staggeringly effective extortioner. He is also said to be a man bent on exacting revenge for the crimes of BMW against his father, a Polish Jew and, during the war, a slave labourer in a BMW factory. The group made munitions, aero engines and batteries for U-boats and V2 rockets. If it is true, as alleged, that Mr Sgarbi bedded Ms Klatten in posh hotels in Monte Carlo, Munich and elsewhere, he was sleeping with the enemy, with a cruel vendetta in mind.
Mrs Klatten, 46, is the great grand-daughter of Gunther Quandt, the founder of BMW who died in 1954 and whose first wife, Magda, later married the Nazi propaganda chief, Joseph Goebbels. The heiress has a degree in marketing and management from the University of Buckingham and worked with with Dresdner Bank and McKinsey, the consultants, before she was appointed to the supervisory board of BMW in 1997.
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Mr Sgarbi’s original name, it appears, was Helg Russak, and while he describes himself as Italo-Swiss, his father (according to Mr Barretta) was a Polish Jew. During the Second World War this man was forced to work as a slave labourer in a BMW factory producing war materiel for the Third Reich. This personal history created the undying hatred of BMW, Mr Barretta claimed, which led his friend to seek an extraordinary type of revenge.
Claims that BMW, like many other still-prominent German firms, used slave labour during the war are well-established. The claims against BMW were most recently re-aired in a television documentary broadcast in Germany in October 2007. When Magda Quandt divorced BMW’s founder and married Goebbels, Gunther’s first son, Herbert – Mrs Klatten’s great-uncle – was brought up by Goebbels and his new wife and eventually took control of the company in 1959. The Goebbels connection brought the company close to the Nazis.
Meh. Seems like a stretch.
The story also includes some amusing details about Sgarbi’s accomplice, shady Italiano Ernano Barretta…
Not only is he a professional secret-sex-tape cameraman, he’s a mysteriously wealthy resort owner, an exploiter of laborers and a sketchy religious guru who nails his followers!
Mr Sgarbi is said to have met Mrs Klatten in 2006 and they became lovers. They met in Monte Carlo and elsewhere for sex, he said, but they were not alone. Every time they checked into a hotel room, Mr Barretta is said to have booked the room next door. When they walked on the street together, Mr Barretta was there with his video camera to record it. When they went to bed, he contrived to film those private moments, too.
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Mr Barretta was a poverty-stricken Abruzzo boy who made good. As lord of the Valle Grande manor, he has told visiting journalists his rags-to-riches story: how as a child he walked 10 kilometres to school, how he was apprenticed as a stone-mason but threw it up to emigrate, finding work in Germany and elsewhere, before returning to his roots laden with riches to build his fine hotel.
The journalists may have believed him but for the locals, at least the way they tell it now, there was always something fishy about Mr Barretta and his money. But many in the valley, we are told, were also in thrall to him. This was a man “of great intelligence”, said Gennaro Varone, the public prosecutor leading the investigation, “with the capacity to get many people to follow him, who were subsequently set to work on his estate” for poor wage.
Information gleaned from telephone bugs has also convinced investigators that he made a name locally as a religious guru, a man with the ability to “induce belief” and “to speak with the voice of God”. Exploiting these powers, he formed a sort of prayer group, composed mostly of women from the valley, with whom he enjoyed sexual relations in return putting them up for free in his hotel. Mr Barretta flatly denies all this.
Although this is little more than a wacky-news headline on this side of the Atlantic, this is a major story in Europe. Germans are shocked that their richest woman could get played like this. Italians are amazed and amused at the doings of shady Barretta. Everyone else is cracking up at the lurid tales of the money grubbing gigolo/con man.
The best thing we found while perusing European media for reactions is a giggle-inducing reconstruction of the Holiday Inn tryst.
A deep hat tip and bow from the waist for whoever produced this image, which we found on the Czech website BLICK:
Nazi-revenge conspiracists will be disappointed to hear that Sgarbi pled guilty, sparing Ms. Klatten the embarrassment of a trial in which she’d surely have had to testify:
A former Swiss investment banker was jailed for six years on Monday for trying to blackmail Germany’s wealthiest woman, heiress to the BMW car empire, with secret video of their lovemaking.
Helg Sgarbi admitted at the start of his trial that he had seduced heiress Susanne Klatten and three other wealthy women, persuading them to pay him almost 10 million euros (9.2 million pounds) under various false pretexts.
“I regret what I did,” Sgarbi, 44, told the Munich court, with little emotion. “I apologise to the women involved.”
Klatten, a member of the Quandt family — the leading shareholders in carmaker BMW — went public last year with the story of how her lover secretly shot intimate footage and later demanded tens of million of euros not to reveal it.
Sgarbi’s admission spares Klatten, who is rarely seen in public, a court appearance.
Seems like all these people turned out the loser in this situation.
Haha!! And we are the big winners because we get to mock them.
It’s a desolate place known mostly as the locale of Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort, an epic winter destination where the slopes are tasty and none of the employees are bearded.
Apart from Mammoth, there really isn’t that much going on in Mono County. They have about 13,000 residents, not even enough to have their own congressional district.
It’s a locale where a design for a new courthouse becomes the hot topic…because it’s too fruity and “Santa Monica” for the rugged Mono folks.
So it’s safe to say things are probably pretty damn relaxed in Mono County…an assumption that is only confirmed by a visit to the county Sheriff Department’s website.
Here you can find press releases on all the high crimes and misdemeanors that the law has to battle in those parts.
(That last one is particularly weird: “During a search of Mr. Kavanach’s vehicle, the Deputy discovered a loaded handgun that was hidden inside the vehicle’s multiple CD changer in the trunk, a ski mask with goggles, gas mask, wig and mustache, additional ammunition and photos and maps of bridges, commercial structures, and various locations in California including the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant.”)
So apparently while they wait around for evildoers to show up with costumes and potentially diabolical plans, or just drunken old men wandering around town, the Sheriff’s Department doesn’t fail to keep busy.
Here are the deputies getting their ride on – on steeds of flesh and of iron!
Undoubtedly the best part of the website is the pictures from “Taser Training”.
Watch the Mono County deputies tase the shit out each other!
The ladies were not spared…
Wait a minute – did they tase the same woman twice?
Either they’re sisters, or someone made the mistake of stealing the Sheriff/Coroner’s parking spot the week of Taser Training…
ANYWAY, other than our apparent obsession with Sheriffs this week, this fine outfit came to our attention via a link forwarded by Nils Coq au Vin.
Seems that when they aren’t yanking fish out of Mono Lake or shooting each other with Tasers, the Sheriff’s Department is tricking stupid Orange County residents into showing up in their jurisdiction loaded down with drugs.
Then they arrest them while wielding assault rifles!! Bad ass!
Over the past week, agents with the Mono Narcotic Enforcement Team (MONET) have operated an internet based sting operation. Officers report that agents posed as the sellers of vouchers for Mammoth Mountain. Rather than cash, officers say they clearly stated that the lift tickets were to be exchanged for narcotics.
MONET agents say they received numerous offers from prospective buyers. The deals were arranged for Friday in Mammoth. When the buyers arrived in Mammoth and gave the agents narcotics in exchange for vouchers, they were arrested.
With visible arrests in broad daylight Friday, the Town of Mammoth was abuzz with talk of the arrests. Friday afternoon, Police could be seen holding the suspects at gunpoint in a parking lot off Old Mammoth road. The suspects appeared to be dressed for a day on the slopes, but instead found themselves in front of officers pointing pistols and assault rifles at them.
There were a total of 6 suspects arrested and charged. Officers say that they seized about 1 pound of marijuana, ¼ ounce of cocaine, Ecstasy tablets, and a variety of prescription medications.
Officers arrested 22 year old Travis Jennings of San Luis Obispo, 28 year old Joshua Martin of Newport Beach, 30 year old Christopher Nichols of Newport Beach, 27 year old Molly Malloy of Huntington Beach, and 21 year old Jonathan Morrison of Highland Park.
All suspects were booked into the Mono County Jail on charges ranging from sales of controlled substance, possession of cocaine, sales and possession of more than 1 oz. of marijuana and conspiracy.
Local blog Sierra Wave has pictures of the bust, and they’re a delicious combo of ridiculous and awe-inspiring.
[UPDATE: The pictures have been buried. Tragic.]
A pound of weed, some coke, a little ecstasy…not a lot of dope on the table there, but what the hell, at least five O.C. deadbeats will think twice before bringing their doper asses to Mammoth again…
And sure, the assault rifles probably weren’t needed. But they look cool as hell, so who cares!
A story in the Orange County Register reveals that the method of the sting was deliciously simple…just a post on Craigslist saying “Lift tickets for 420, yo” and the drug fiends came sprinting right into the trap!
Four Orange County residents were arrested in Mammoth Lakesin a sting involving undercover police officers selling ski lift tickets for drugs, police officials confirmed today.
Mono County Sheriff’s Department officers advertised on Craigslist.com an offer to sell lift vouchers for Mammoth Lakes’ skiing area in exchange for narcotics. The buyers came to Mammoth Lakes, gave the agents the drugs, and were arrested Friday, Mono sheriff’s officials said.
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This was the first time this type of sting has been done by the department, Mono sheriff’s spokeswoman Shannon Kendall said.
But assuredly not the last, because in between all the snowmobiling, horseback riding, and fishing, you best BELIEVE the Mono County Sheriff’s Department is gonna bust some lowlifes.
Even if they have to import them!
And after a hard day’s work, it’s time to take on the local high school in a spirited game of b-ball…
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