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.
Madison Czopek Dec 21, 2020
A New Bedford man was arrested in Wareham and charged with larceny of a motor vehicle and receiving stolen property in excess of $1,200 after Wareham Police recovered car that had been reported stolen from a person’s driveway in Swifts Beach on Friday, Dec. 18.
On Friday morning at about 9:20 a.m., Wareham Police responded to a Swifts Beach address for a report of a vehicle that had been stolen from a person’s driveway, according to a police department press release.
Officer Malik Wilkes spoke to the person who reported the car stolen. The person said that they had their car on while it was unlocked and running so it could warm up in the driveway. However, within a few minutes of the person going back inside the house, they noticed the car had been stolen. A report about the stolen vehicle was filed and all officers were advised to be on the lookout for the vehicle, according to the press release.
Emergency responders at the scene of the crash. Photos courtesy: Wareham Police Department
Initial reports indicate one vehicle tried to pass another and then struck a vehicle in the opposite lane, causing the accident.
One individual involved in the crash was removed from a vehicle and transported to Tobey Hospital with unknown injuries.
Emergency responders closed Sandwich Road for about an hour as they responded to the crash.
A head-on crash on Sandwich Road sent one person to the hospital on Friday, Dec. 18, according to a press release from the Wareham Police Department.
The Wareham Police Department, Fire Department and EMS responded to the accident at 8:20 a.m. Emergency responders encountered two vehicles with severe damage at the scene. The vehicles were off in the brush on the side of the road.