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Westport Eastbayri.Com THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2014 VOL ShorelinesShorelinesWestport eastbayri.com THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2014 VOL. 20, NO. 40 $.75 Board of Main Road arsenal Health running out of money Perhaps town needs Dept. of Public Works, selectman says Money was so tight for the Board of Health at one point this year that consideration was giv- en to a temporary closure of the town transfer station. It didn’t come to that, BOH Chairman John Coletti and Agent Jim Walsh told Selectmen last Monday but that’s how dire things have become. The two attended the Select- men’s meeting to alert the board that they fear that the BOH will run out of money by sometime in February and may need to ask Town Meeting voters to approve a budget supplement for the cast-strapped board. Selectmen congratulated the BOH representatives on averting a transfer station shutdown but were cool to suggestions of pro- viding more money. Selectmen instead said that A weapons wall full of high-powered guns in the Main Road house. The weapons here are only a small fraction of what police found. the situation suggests that per- haps the time has come for West- port to explore new ways to han- dle Board of Health responsibili- ties. ‘Valentines’ search leads to still more guns Maybe, Selectman Craig Dutra said, the town should consider a BY BRUCE BURDETT magazines. valentines search that led them to town department of public [email protected] After the search, officers arrest- this latest house. works model, one that would They have yet to find the miss- ed homeowner Wayne Cinquini, The search for the artwork had encompass the duties of several ing Sailors’ Valentine seashell art- 49, and charged him with posses- taken detectives on September 9 departments — among them the work pieces stolen from a West- sion of a covert weapon, two to a house on Old County Road. BOH. port Restaurant weeks ago, but counts of possession of a short The Sailors’ Valentines weren’t And Selectman Richard Spirlet that expanding search has led to barrel rifle, possession of high there but police did find guns, a suggested that the town might other arrests and the seizure of capacity law enforcement number of illegal high-capacity look into privatizing some of the high-powered and illegal restricted gun magazines, trans- magazines and drugs. Two people work now handled by the BOH. weapons. ferring /selling illegal high capac- were arrested there. The two BOH representatives Most recently, police obtained a ity gun magazines, and four The police effort to find the said their department was beset warrant to search a house at 230 counts of having an unsecured source of those magazines led by several problems that made Main Road in Westport, just over a firearm (one loaded). He was them on Sept. 17 to the Cinquani an already tight budget situation half mile south of Westport. High arraigned at Fall River District house at 230 Middle Road. worse this fiscal year. School. There they found nearly Court and posted $5,000 dollar Here they found an arsenal of Two transfer station workers 300 rifles, pistols and shotguns, cash bail. weaponry. were out on sick leave for some of them illegal, as well as Westport Detective Sergeant many illegal high capacity gun Antonio Cestodio said it was the See GUNS Page 4 Wayne Cinquini See HEALTH Page 5 Page 2 Westport Shorelines October 2, 2014 Off-duty firefighter sounds alarm as house stripped of pipes Firefighter Mark Brisk was off duty Friday afternoon when he saw something that struck him as odd. At around 2 p.m., he watched as a woman driving a blue Honda CRV dropped off two men, one with a backpack, in the driveway of 628 Sanford Road, a house that had been listed for sale and was vacant. The men split up, one walking along each side of the house toward the back. Firefighter Brisk called police and off-duty reserve officer Brian Souza, who was nearby, heard the call and stopped by to check it out. When he arrived at the house he encountered the two men who fled over a fence and into Clifford Howard Jr. Michael Mills Jr. the woods, said Westport Detec- tive Tony Cestodio. “When approached by police. Road detail officer Sergeant Clifford was making kissing Chris Dunn and off duty sounds and explained he was Sergeant Gary Cambra arrived to looking for his pet dog ‘Buddy,’” help other officers, and together Det. Cestodio said. they caught both men in the All of the suspects were trans- woods. ported to the police station A third suspect, (the woman where they were booked. driver of vehicle) was stopped All three, including driver nearby on Briggs Road. Nicole Couture, 33, same Police said that their investiga- address, were charged with tion revealed that one of the two breaking and entering in the day- men, Michael Mills Jr., 23, of 341 time (a felony), wantonly injur- East Main St., Fall River, “had ing property, conspiracy to com- entered the house with pipe cut- mit a crime, and possession of ters and cut a copper pipe from burglary tools. the furnace which caused the Mr. Mills had a default warrant cellar to flood.” from. New Jersey for fraudulent The other man, Clifford use of a credit card, third degree, Howard Jr., same address, “acting and was additionally charged as as lookout alerted Michael and a fugitive from justice. Arraign- both fled the property when ments were held on Monday, police arrived. Sept. 29. 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Acting on an anonymous tip, officers John Bell and Bryan McCarthy hiked in from Jiggs Street and Pine Street off Route 6, following a path through the woods. About a quarter mile in from the road, the aroma strength- ened and they spotted a pile of cut branches with leaves. They pushed the heap aside and found a smaller hidden path. And down that path was the marijuana. There were “approximately 30 marijuana plants, most of which were fully grown” and up to 8 feet tall, said Detective Jeff Majewski. The plants’ value was estimated at $45,000. “The plants were very well cared for,” the detective said. A gas powered pump was used to bring water in through a hose from Bread and Cheese Brook, about 30 feet away. Police also seized a power inverter, grow chemicals and PH test strips. The plants were all growing in large pots and had name tags with what Det. Majewski said appear to be marijuana strain names — ‘Vortex, ‘Candy Apple,’ Sour Bubble,’ etc. WESTPORT POLICE PHOTO They staked the place out for Some of the well-tended marijuana plants grow in containers in the woods near Bread and Cheese Brook.. awhile in hopes of catching the grower(s) but nobody showed location to be at the edge of pri- The Southeastern Massachu- bers to assist with the removal Anyone with information up. vate property and town-owned setts Law Enforcement Search and transport of the plants from about the pot farm is asked to A satellite aerial map shows the land. and Rescue Team sent four mem- the woods. contact the Westport Police. Town appeals state’s Beach Avenue order Westport has appealed a Sept. 8 state issued in 2009 and later renewed. order that it cease all grading and gravel “It is the town’s position that the Highway work on Beach Avenue. Department has adhered to the require- The appeal of the Department on Envi- ments of the valid OC and has not under- ronmental Protection (DEP) enforcement taken work that exceeds” the order. The order by the town’s attorney was approved order specified that there should be “no by the Board of Selectmen last Monday expansion in length or width of Beach evening. Avenue (and) no addition of a turn- In response to complaints, a DEP official around/turnabout area.” checked Beach Avenue work out to the If the enforcement order allegation is that Knubble in late August and concluded that the town has exceeded those requirements, the town had overreached its bounds and the order “lacks any specifics as to the was doing work well in excess of the road- nature or extent of the violation. This leaves way’s routine maintenance work that had the town to guess as to what the violation is, been permitted. and what activity is required to cease in The appeal, prepared by attorney John J. order to comply.” Goldroson for the law firm Kopelman and Nor does the order, he said, specify how Paige, argues that work done did not violate the town violated the Wetlands Protection terms of an Order of Conditions (OC) Act.
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