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Private Group Trying To Raise Money for Shark Detector Buoys on Cape Cod; Red Tape Likely

Matthew McDonald

A Wellfleet resident has raised $40,000 toward a goal of $200,000 on a GoFundMe web site to lease two buoys that are designed to warn swimmers about the presence of a shark.

The Arthur Clever Buoy Pilot, as founder Heather Doyle calls it, is named for Arthur Medici, a Brazil native and Revere resident who was attacked and killed by a great white shark off a beach in Wellfleet on September 15, 2018.

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Cops Are Recording License Plates of All Cars That Cross Cape Cod Canal

Matthew McDonald

A New Bedford man charged with drug trafficking is challenging a Superior Court judge's ruling that automatic license plate readers recording all cars that go over the Bourne Bridge and Sagamore Bridge to or from Cape Cod are constitutional.

Jason McCarthy's car was on a Hit List generated by police investigating him in connection with drug dealing, and when they got an alert from the system on February 22, police pulled over McCarthy, eventually leading to his arrest, according to The Cape Cod Times.

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