As part of Distracted Driving Awareness Month, Chief Marc Haslam announces that the Swansea Police Department is conducting heightened distracted driving patrols.
The Town of Swansea announces that Avian influenza has been detected in a sample of dead wild birds in town.
SWANSEA — Chief Marc Haslam reports that the Swansea Police Department arrested three men and one juvenile this past weekend on charges related to the misuse of a paintball gun.
COREY DECHAINE, AGE 18, OF MALBOROUGH; DEREK RAPOSO, AGE 19, OF FALL RIVER; AUSTIN HOBBS, AGE 21, OF FALL RIVER; and A 17-YEAR-OLD MALE JUVENILE were arrested and charged with:
On Saturday, April 15 at 1:21 a.m., Swansea Police received a report of shots fired at a motor vehicle on Route 6 in the area of Bushee Road. The caller stated that the suspect vehicle was a white Subaru WRX, traveling West on Route 6.
Swansea Police officers located the suspect vehicle in Seekonk a short while later and conducted a motor vehicle stop.
While searching the vehicle during the stop, officers located and seized several paintball guns. As a result of the search and subsequent investigation, DECHAINE, RAPOSO, HOBBS and the 17-YEAR-OLD MALE JUVENILE were arrested without incident.
DECHAINE, RAPOSO and HOBBS were transported to the Bristol County House of Correction’s Ash St. Jail in New Bedford. The 17-YEAR-OLD MALE JUVENILE was transported to a juvenile detention facility in Framingham.
DECHAINE, RAPOSO and HOBBS are scheduled to be arraigned today at the Fall River Justice Center, and the 17-YEAR-OLD MALE JUVENILE is scheduled to be arraigned today at Juvenile Court.
The victim of the shooting was not seriously injured and declined transportation to a hospital.
These are allegations. All suspects are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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Town Administrator Mallory Aronstein, Town Administrator Mark Ullucci and Swansea/Somerset Public Health Nurse Desiree Harding, on behalf of the towns of Somerset and Swansea, invite residents and members of the public to participate in the upcoming blood drive hosted with the American Red Cross on May 1.
