It’s going to be a really busy morning May 24 for Chuck Ardito, the clerk-magistrate of the Barnstable District Court.
So many questions for the Barnstable Police Department, if solely he’s prepared to truly ask them.
Clerk Ardito has scheduled a type of very, very uncommon open hearings at 11 a.m.
The Barnstable PD, a lot to their chagrin, might be in search of a legal criticism for improper storage of a firearm in opposition to Reid Mason, the 22-year-old son of the $267,210-a-year colonel of the Massachusetts State Police, Christopher Mason.
I hope Ardito asks a number of the questions that the cops have been stonewalling me on. So far, for my inquiries, I appear to have been blocked by the flack for the Barnstable Police Department, Lt. Mark Mellyn.
One of my questions for Lt. Mellyn on May 5 was whether or not he had ever purchased property from the long run Colonel in Centerville? (Spoiler alert: he did, in keeping with the Barnstable Registry of Deeds.)
First query I’d ask Ardito to ask the cops, as a result of they’ve refused to reply me for greater than per week now:
According to dependable sources, not one, however two incident reviews had been filed by the Barnstable PD after the incident within the early-morning hours of Feb. 28, when Reid Mason was apparently found sleeping in his automobile in a parking zone on the nook of South and Sea Streets in Hyannis.
The first report was filed, as they are saying, “contemporaneously.” The second one was filed in late April — after I and the blogger referred to as turtleboy started asking questions.
The second report, which like the primary the cops are refusing to launch, apparently has not less than one main distinction from the preliminary one. In the primary report, the BPD simply reported recovering 4 firearms from Mason’s automobile. In the later report the weapons had been reported to be unloaded, which might in fact relieve the colonel’s son of many authorized complications down the highway.
If I had been Clerk Ardito, I’d ask the cops, why did you are feeling the necessity to write two reviews on an incident which you apparently wished to verify by no means noticed the sunshine of day?
Why did you wait till the press began asking inquiries to file a second report?
And for the clerk: When can the media get copies of each reviews, so we are able to examine ‘n’ distinction?
Here are another questions I haven’t obtained solutions to from the Barnstable PD:
Has younger Mason’s license to hold (LTC) been suspended by the chief, whose son used to work with Reid Mason again in highschool?
Was there a fifth firearm that was later confiscated at Reid Mason’s home?
Another line of inquiry: The Barnstable police preserve a public log of recorded incidents. Everything is listed, or so it was believed. For occasion, on Dec. 18, a veteran detective named Colin Kelley was arrested and charged with OUI after being stopped in his truck exterior the police station.
It was early within the morning, across the identical time as Reid Mason was discovered, and Kelley’s automobile wasn’t shifting, identical to Mason’s, though it was turned on, not like Mason’s.
The level is, Kelley’s cease and arrest was splashed everywhere in the log, and the story of his downside was even reported by the lackluster native newspaper.
Fast ahead to Feb. 28. There is nothing — completely nothing — on that day’s log about Reid Mason, both the preliminary discovery of him in his automobile, or some other cease to select up his different firearm.
Clerk Ardito ought to ask the cops, why is the arrest of your individual brother officer so prominently displayed on the log, but there’s nothing about your interplay with the non-police son of the state’s highest law-enforcement officer?
When I discovered about this incident two weeks in the past, I did what I at all times do now once I get a tip. First I put it out on Twitter, after which I began speaking about it on my radio present.
Later after turtleboy wrote in regards to the case, I had him on the air to debate it. And listeners started texting us, why are you guys selecting on this child?
Is it simply because his father’s been gleefully firing trustworthy state troopers for not getting an ineffective, probably hazardous vaccine, whereas permitting crooked troopers who embezzled tens of hundreds of {dollars} to retire with no jail time and full pensions?
To which I responded, sure, that’s precisely the issue with Mason. He destroyed his personal trustworthy troopers’ lives for completely no motive, so we simply wish to make it possible for everyone seems to be being handled equally right here — wink wink nudge nudge.
Here’s one other query I formally requested the Barnstable PD on May 5:
“Have there been any communications between the Barnstable PD and MSP, including but not limited to Col. Christopher Mason, regarding this case involving his son?”
I additionally made the identical inquiry to the MSP Thursday, in addition to asking to see a log of his cellphone calls on Feb. 28, amongst different issues.
Before he nodded off, Reid Mason had been with different firefighters from a special division on the nineteenth Hole Tavern, which is well-liked with off-duty Barnstable cops. I requested the BPD if any of their cops had seen younger Mason earlier that night.
Again, no solutions from the Barnstable PD.
Clerk Ardito, you have got my telephone quantity and my e mail. If you want to extra ideas for questions in regards to the colonel’s son and that mysterious incident on Feb. 28, please name.
I stay, as at all times, A Concerned Citizen.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”