PEOPLE AND SLASHED CAR TIRES AT CHAPOQUOIT BEACH IN FALMOUTH LAST NIGHT. OUR DANAE BUCCI IS THERE LIVE WITH THE DETAILS. DANAE? DANAE: THAT MAN IS IN CUSTODY AFTER LEADING POLICE ON A LENGTHY CHASE, THEY SAY HE BECAME AGGRESSIVE AFTER BEING TURNED AWAY FROM THE PARKING LOT ON SUNDAY. THE LOT IS FOR RESIDENTS ONLY AND A STICKER IS NEEDED TO GET IN. HE FLED ON FOOT BEFORE POLICE ARRIVED AT 6:30 P.M. FALMOUTH POLICE SAID THEY DISPATCHED THE K-9 UNIT DEFINED THE SUSPECT AND HE WAS FOUND ON A BOAT IN THE WEST FALMOUTH HARBOR. BEACHGOERS SAID THEY NEVER EXPECTED SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO HAPPEN HERE. >> OBVIOUSLY IT’S OUTRAGEOUS. AND I THINK AGGRESSIVE. AND WHOEVER DID THAT NEEDS TO RELAX. IT’S A BEAUTIFUL PLACE AND I’M GLAD THE POLICE GOT HIM. >> KNOW, USUALLY THIS AREA IS, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, PRETTY TAME. THAT IS WHY WE STAY HERE EVERY YEAR BECAUSE IT IS JUST SO WHY IT. DANAE: THE MAN WAS ARRAIGNED ON FRIDAY AND FACES SEVER
Attleboro man accused of assault and battery, vandalism in rampage over Cape Cod beach sticker
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Updated: 4:11 PM EDT Jun 28, 2022
An Attleboro man faced several charges after he was accused of going on a violent and destructive rampage after learning he needed a parking sticker at a Cape Cod beach, according to police. Falmouth police responded to Chapoquoit Beach at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday for a report of a man, later identified as Augusto Darosa, assaulting people and slashing tires. The man fled on foot, but after a search with a K9 and the State Police Airwing, he was located hiding on a boat in West Falmouth Harbor. Darosa was arrested.Darosa, 45, was charged with two counts each of assault with a dangerous weapon, a knife, assault and battery, threatening to commit a crime, intimidation of a witness, vandalizing property and a single count each of disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and breaking and entering a vehicle or boat in the nighttime for felony, Falmouth police said. The incident reportedly stemmed from Darosa becoming very agitated and threatening a parking lot attendant upon learning he needed a parking sticker, police said. He returned later and slashed a vehicle’s tires, physically assaulted witnesses and threatened witnesses with a knife, police said. Darosa was held without bail after being arraigned on the 11 charges in Falmouth District Court.Video Below: 7 Cape Cod dolphins rescued after being stranded during low tide
FALMOUTH, Mass. — An Attleboro man faced several charges after he was accused of going on a violent and destructive rampage after learning he needed a parking sticker at a Cape Cod beach, according to police.
Falmouth police responded to Chapoquoit Beach at about 6:30 p.m. Sunday for a report of a man, later identified as Augusto Darosa, assaulting people and slashing tires. The man fled on foot, but after a search with a K9 and the State Police Airwing, he was located hiding on a boat in West Falmouth Harbor. Darosa was arrested.
Darosa, 45, was charged with two counts each of assault with a dangerous weapon, a knife, assault and battery, threatening to commit a crime, intimidation of a witness, vandalizing property and a single count each of disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and breaking and entering a vehicle or boat in the nighttime for felony, Falmouth police said.
The incident reportedly stemmed from Darosa becoming very agitated and threatening a parking lot attendant upon learning he needed a parking sticker, police said.
He returned later and slashed a vehicle’s tires, physically assaulted witnesses and threatened witnesses with a knife, police said.
Darosa was held without bail after being arraigned on the 11 charges in Falmouth District Court.
Video Below: 7 Cape Cod dolphins rescued after being stranded during low tide
