Crime & Safety

Dad Allegedly Hits Girl With Flip-Flop, Teen Robbed of Sneakers at Gunpoint and Alleged Drunken Driver Asks to Go to Jail

Our weekly round-up of police and court news from the South Shore, Cape Cod and the Vineyard.

Editor's note: The following information is from police departments, courts and state agencies serving Patch towns. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.

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