Created: June 16, 2021 05:37 PM
(ABC 6 News) - In May and early June every year, you may hear Click It or Ticket a lot. That s because of the national campaign on drivers not wearing their seatbelts.
112 Minnesotans died last year because they were not wearing their seatbelts. That s the highest number since 2012.
During the two-week Click It or Ticket campaign that just ended, law enforcement cited over 2,000 people across the state for not buckling up. We have to put a big asterisk beside not only 2020, but also 2021 because traffic patterns are not the same as they were before that. When I look at it proportionally, I think it s about what we would expect to see, Mike Hanson, director of the Department of Public Safety Office of Traffic Safety, said.
Wareham Police Chief John Walcek Retiring
WAREHAM The Wareham Police Department has announced the impending retirement of Chief John Walcek.
Walcek will officially retire on Saturday, April 17, ending a nearly 34-year association with the Wareham Police Department.
“I consider it an honor and privilege to have been afforded the opportunity to serve Wareham and its residents for so many years,” Chief Walcek said.
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Walcek has served as chief since February of 2020, after becoming acting chief in 2018 following the retirement of former Chief Kevin Walsh.
Walcek first began working for the Wareham Police Department in 1987, when at the age of 20 he was hired as a summer special officer. Prior to that, he had worked as a call firefighter at the West Wareham station in 1984 while still in high school. He also worked for the Municipal Maintenance Department during the summer throughout his teenage years.
Rochester man sentenced for robbing bank, gas station
Fosters Daily Democrat
CONCORD A Rochester man has been sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for robbing a Rochester gas station and a Dover bank on the same day while out on supervised release for a different bank robbery.
Thomas Hegarty, 26, of Rochester, was sentenced last week in U.S. District Court to a combined 82 months for the attempted robbery of a Rochester Circle K and the robbery of a Bank of America in Dover, each of which occurred on April 9, 2020.
At the time of the crimes, Hegarty was out on supervised release on a 3-year, 3-month sentence he received for robbing a Rochester bank in 2015. For violating the terms of that release, the court imposed a 12-month sentence to be served consecutively with the 82 months for the April 9, 2020, crimes.