SWAT team surrounds home in Wareham as convicted murderer Gino Gaillardetz, wanted for recent crime in Boston, hid in attic
Updated Dec 24, 2020;
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Multiple law enforcement agencies surrounded a home in Wareham on Tuesday night as a convicted murderer - wanted in connection with a recent incident in Boston - hid from police in an attic, authorities said.
The local and state police along with Southeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council SWAT team, the Plymouth County Sheriff’s Department, and a command unit from the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council secured a home where Gino Gaillardetz, 56, of Chelsea hid in an attic, police said.
Wareham Police Apprehend Convicted Murderer Hiding in Home
WAREHAM Wareham Police teamed with other law enforcement to apprehend a convicted murderer wanted on a parole violation who was hiding out in the attic of an Onset home Tuesday night.
On December 22 at about 8:40 p.m., Massachusetts parole officers Nathan Mendes, Robert Mello, Timothy White and Mychal Grady developed information that a wanted individual was staying at a house on Mason Street Extension in Onset. The parole officers requested the assistance of the Wareham Police Department to serve the warrant. The wanted individual was on parole for murder, and currently under investigation for a recent crime in the Boston area. In addition, information was received that the suspect had commented he was not going to be taken back to jail.
Dec 23, 2020
A man under investigation for a recent crime in the Boston area and who was on parole after being previously convicted of murder was arrested by Wareham police after hiding in an attic and attempting to escape through a vent.
At about 8:40 p.m. on Dec. 22, police officers learned the man, Gino Gaillardetz, 56, of Chelsea, was staying at a house on Mason Street Ext.
He had allegedly commented that he was “not going back to jail.”
Gaillardetz was on parole for a murder he was convicted of committing in 1986. According to publicly available parole board records, Gaillardetz was drinking and doing cocaine in Hyannis when he planned to rob Francis Gray at knifepoint. Gray grabbed at him and Gaillardetz stabbed him in the chest three times.