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Handcuffs key to peculiar Hyannis arrest
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Handcuffs key to peculiar Hyannis arrest
Cape Cod Times
By Karen Jeffrey
February 11, 2009
HYANNIS — It was a good news-bad news sort of day for Allahmanamjad Barbel when he showed up at the Barnstable police station at 2 p.m. yesterday with police-issue handcuffs dangling from one wrist.
The 21-year-old told police that he had just come from a child's birthday party in Hyannis, where his younger sister sneaked up behind him and slipped the cuffs onto one wrist. Then they discovered no one in the house had a key to the cuffs, and no amount of pulling, pushing or trying to cut through the Smith and Wesson police-issue handcuffs was going to free him, Barnstable police Sgt. Sean Sweeney said.
So Barbel stopped by the police station and asked for a key. There he encountered suspicious police officers.
"We said, 'Come right through this door, young man,' " Sweeney said. "'Step right this way and we'll look at this in a better light.'"
Barbel obliged and followed Sweeney and Officer Chris Challies into the booking area at the station.
Sweeney and Challies examined the cuffs, questioned Barbel about the circumstances, checked out his story about the party, and ran his name through the state warrant system.
The good news for Barbel was police had a key that unlocked what did turn out to be police-issue cuffs. Police never did confirm where they came from.
The bad news for Barbel was they put a new set on him as they arrested him on warrants issued out of Falmouth District Court on charges of driving with a suspended license, leaving the scene of an accident, threatening to commit a crime, and making annoying phone calls.
"He asked if we used the cuffs he'd come in with, but no, we got a brand new set for him," Sweeney said.
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Handcuffs key to peculiar Hyannis arrest
Cape Cod Times
By Karen Jeffrey
February 11, 2009
HYANNIS — It was a good news-bad news sort of day for Allahmanamjad Barbel when he showed up at the Barnstable police station at 2 p.m. yesterday with police-issue handcuffs dangling from one wrist.
The 21-year-old told police that he had just come from a child's birthday party in Hyannis, where his younger sister sneaked up behind him and slipped the cuffs onto one wrist. Then they discovered no one in the house had a key to the cuffs, and no amount of pulling, pushing or trying to cut through the Smith and Wesson police-issue handcuffs was going to free him, Barnstable police Sgt. Sean Sweeney said.
So Barbel stopped by the police station and asked for a key. There he encountered suspicious police officers.
"We said, 'Come right through this door, young man,' " Sweeney said. "'Step right this way and we'll look at this in a better light.'"
Barbel obliged and followed Sweeney and Officer Chris Challies into the booking area at the station.
Sweeney and Challies examined the cuffs, questioned Barbel about the circumstances, checked out his story about the party, and ran his name through the state warrant system.
The good news for Barbel was police had a key that unlocked what did turn out to be police-issue cuffs. Police never did confirm where they came from.
The bad news for Barbel was they put a new set on him as they arrested him on warrants issued out of Falmouth District Court on charges of driving with a suspended license, leaving the scene of an accident, threatening to commit a crime, and making annoying phone calls.
"He asked if we used the cuffs he'd come in with, but no, we got a brand new set for him," Sweeney said.