Mattapoisett Police

UPDATE: The Plymouth County District Attorney's Office has identified the victim of the fatal crash as 45-year-old James Bardsley of Mattapoisett. MATTAPOISETT — The Mattapoisett Police Department is investigating a fatal crash that occurred on Friday night...

State police report that 32 Massachusetts schools received bomb threats today, and in most cases, students and faculty were ordered to remain in place while police searched the buildings. There were no reports of anything suspicious being found...

Mattapoisett Police, with help from several area departments, arrest two Wareham men Monday, one of whom is accused of selling drugs from his room at the Hillside Motel. Police Chief Mary Lyons says 35 year old Troy Jones sold drugs to multiple people, including sales to undercover police officers...

Two Fall River men were arrested Tuesday on charges of stealing cars on the Southcoast, on Cape Cod and in Rhode Island. Marion police say Marcus Junior Hierrezuelo and Ronnie Sulyma were taken into custody following a joint investigation which included the Mattapoisett, Plymouth, and Fall River Police Departments...

Mattapoisett Police and the town Harbormaster team up to pull a man from the water after his small boat sank. Police say the incident happened just after 4pm Monday afternoon, in waters between West Island and Mattapoisett. Police say the man was from New Bedford...

Saturday is Drug Take Back Day in several area communities, including New Bedford and Mattapoisett. Mattapoisett Police Chief Mary Lyons is urging local residents to turn in any outdated prescriptions. While many people think those prescriptions are safe in their medicine cabinet, Chief Lyons says that's not always the case...

An unidentified woman is being treated at St. Lukes hoswpital after the SUV she was driving crashed into a utility pole in the vicinity of 99 Brandt Island Road late Friday afternoon.  According to witnesses, the pole snapped and the vehicle ended up on its side...

A 26 year old woman told Police she was attacked and robbed Monday night in a parking lot at Fort Phoenix in Fairhaven.  According to Police, the woman said she was returning to her car after a jog, when she was approached by a man who grabbed her arm-band  Ipod and took it...

Over 100 people attended a National Night Out event at Old Rochester Regional High School Tuesday night.   The event was held jointly by the towns of Marion, Rochester, and Mattapoisett and featured police cruisers, ambulances, fire trucks, swat vechiles as well as a demonstration from a k-9 unit...