Edgartown police were led on a car chase that snaked through Upper Main Street and ended in the town cemetery on Thursday morning with an arrest, a vehicle tow and a few toppled tombstones — but no injuries.
Bruce McNamee, a captain of the administration division of the Plymouth police department, has been named the new Edgartown police chief.
Three top police executives from off-Island are finalists in the search for a new Edgartown police chief. Robert DeFlaminis Jr., Bruce R. McNamee and Brian Lauzon, will be interviewed Monday by the Edgartown selectmen.
Deputy Edgartown harbor master Mike Hathaway is recovering at a Boston hospital after a boat fell on him in an accident at the town highway barn.
With a search now under way for a new police chief in Edgartown, tension inside the department has bubbled to the surface in a town that has long prided itself on having relatively few internal problems.
Edgartown is beginning its formal search for a new police chief, following the abrupt retirement of the former chief for medical reasons.
Edgartown police chief David Rossi is stepping down following a recent heart attack, becoming the third Island police chief to announce his departure in less than a month.
