Welcome to idyllic Cape Cod! Not quite a resort island, but certainly a Perverse Peninsula Paradise! Not so sure you want to let yourself go? Go figure!Mary Clements
241D Stevens Street
Hyannis, MA 02601
April 26, 2004
District Attorney Michael O’Keefe
Barnstable County Office of the District Attorney
PO Box 455
Barnstable, MA 02630
Dear Mr. O’Keefe,
Please note the correspondence to several public officials and attorneys with interests in regard to Dana’s Fields and NOAH. In addition I have enclosed documentation of campaign contributions made to you from Community Action Committee and Housing Assistance Corporation. During your tenure on the Barnstable Human Service Needs Committee a decision was made to dismantle the makeshift camps. The police action executed per the directive of Town Manager John Klimm was a clean maneuver that obviously required sound legal skill and judgment. The evidence that law enforcement collected demonstrated a compelling case requiring the necessary action to protect public health and safety. Moreover the legal expertise met all legal precedents preempting challenge by opposing parties. This was an exciting time for those following the controversial politics of the local human service establishment and its ardent supporters. For a short time it seemed that common sense might prevail in Hyannis.
Unfortunately there must have been sufficient pressure on you to accommodate the “homeless industry” in the downtown area. As the organizations involved lobbied for your support local law enforcement provided increased support to problem crack houses and wooded areas around the shelter. There was a concentrated effort to provide assistance to the homeless in downtown Hyannis. Police, fire and rescue personnel were used as human service workers while Rick Presbrey of Housing Assistance Corporation pursued his $11.5 million dollar farm project in Sandwich. The majority of applicants would be precluded from applying to the project because of significant criminal backgrounds.
The intent of the organization was to warehouse serious offenders at Mildred’s and return failed clients to Hyannis according to a guarantee provided to the residents of Sandwich. As I have explained, the majority of these clients that may potentially fail at rehabilitation and be transported to Barnstable will not originate from NOAH. This means an expansion of the industry and attraction of more homeless clients to an already saturated market. Because of the negligent operation of HAC/Duffy the community and local law enforcement have perpetual offenders running circles around them. After the killing of Jonathan Wessner, there was an increased effort to notify the public of sex offenders living and working in the area despite the organizations efforts to protect the privacy of recidivist offenders. This occurred shortly after Chief John Finnegan directed his public relations agent to sign off on the Mildred’s Chowder House Project. Police and rescue personnel continued to respond to “human service calls” while Alan Burt pressured the Council of Churches to resist the “slick and deceptive action” of law enforcement.
Please review all documents that pertain to criminal activity in Barnstable County and in particular offenses against children. I am particularly concerned in regard to a known child molester accosting an innocent child in Way’s News and the rape and murder of Jonathan Wessner. Past clients who remember him from several years ago have traced Paul Nolin to the shelter. This was confirmed by a uniformed police officer. Both men performed handy work for local organizations. I indeed cashed a payroll check drawn on The Duffy Clinic for Mr. Leon Quick. You will note him continuing to leer at women in front of The Hooters Restaurant in the photographs provided. He frequently imbibes at Hooters and The Duck Inn Pub adjacent to the Sturgis Charter School despite state mandated alcohol rehabilitation counseling. Bob Lindsay of the Duffy Clinic provided transportation to Lowell for his treatment.
You may recall Rick Presbrey publicly referred to me as irresponsible for stating that there are a significant number of criminal offenders residing at NOAH and surrounding properties. He did not respond to my suggestion that most parolees are homeless when released from incarceration.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Sincerely,
Mary Clements
cc. William Henchy, Esq.
Jason Talerman, Esq.
Paul Niedzwicki, Esq.
Mary Clements
241D Stevens Street
Hyannis, MA 02601
August 2, 2004
Kathleen Hinckley
The Barnstable Police Department
PO Box B
1200 Phinney’s Lane
Hyannis, MA 02601
Dear Ms. Hinckley,
Please note a change of address for sex offender Perry Bell. Perry Bell was last listed as a resident of the recently razed Pilot House. Previous to that he frequented 72 North Street and was often seen freebasing in the backyard. Please refer to the photographs of him using narcotics on the premises of my former apartment complex. Mr. Bell has been observed on three occasions at or about the following address.
Perry Bell
362 Bearse’s Way
Hyannis, MA. 02601
Mr. Bell appears to live at the corner of Bearse’s Way and Fresh Holes Road and has been seen crossing into neighboring houses and backyards. I noted a large group of young adolescents hanging out in the front yard and several young children playing and riding on their bicycles in the area. Please be aware that there are a number of known narcotics offenders associated with NOAH frequenting his home. There are also a number of bicyclists with cellular telephones seen making stops at his new address and I last saw Mr. Bell in his front yard explaining to one of his known narcotics contacts where he was to make a delivery.
I understand that Marjorie Watson states that Chief Finnegan knows nothing of criminal offenders being associated with NOAH and referred me to Mr. Presbrey if I had questions in regard to convicted felons being associated with NOAH. You will recall that Mr. Presbrey referred to me as “irresponsible” during the Mildred’s Chowder House effort sponsored by Royden Richardson. It was shortly after this effort that chief Finnegan negotiated a lucrative new six-year contract with the Barnstable Town Council.
District Attorney Michael O’Keefe requested “deference” to the advocates and clients of the NOAH Shelter. A State Trooper working with the District Attorney also confirmed that law enforcement cannot keep track of felons when they are released. This was when I was inquiring in regard to the 1998 murder of Melissa Gosule by former NOAH client Michael Gentile.
Please let me know if you need any further assistance tracking sex offenders and felons in the Hyannis area. I have also forwarded recent photographs of Mr. Larry Marston lurking in front of Sturgis Charter School and Mr. Leon Quick loitering and stalking women out in front of The Hooter’s Restaurant. I have also forwarded a photograph of known narcotics offenders monopolizing the park benches on the Barnstable Town Green. There is a letter to Paul Niedzwicki enclosed.
Sincerely.
Mary Clements
Mary Clements
241D Stevens Street
Hyannis, MA 02601
March 29, 2004
Gary Brown, President
Barnstable Town Council
The Barnstable Town Hall
367 Main Street
Hyannis, MA 02601
Dear Mr. Brown,
Research from the Office of Campaign and Political Finance demonstrates sizable campaign contributions that may present a conflict of interest in regard to public safety in downtown Hyannis. As you can see donations contributed by the human service organization Housing Assistance Corporation and Community Action Committee of Cape Cod and Islands may have influenced policy in regard to recent developments with services provided to the indigent and homeless.
Mr. Michael Princi, Esq. Representing Housing Assistance Corporation at the Sandwich Zoning Board of Appeals in regard to Dana’s Fields increased the size of his campaign contributions to The Committee to Elect Michael O’Keefe during HAC’s effort to acquire a comprehensive permit to build the experimental farm project off Victory Drive in Sandwich. The effort to pass the Mildred’s Chowder House coincided with this effort. As you are aware, Mr. O’Keefe supported the effort to move the NOAH Shelter to the property at Barnstable Airport/Mildred’s Chowder House. Mr. Princi indeed bragged and boasted in a fit of rage at the Zoning Board of Appeals meeting that he had made a sizable contribution to an influential elected official and suggested that the Dana’s Field Project would definitely be pushed through whether I “liked it or not!”
Mr. Princi was angry because I suggested that HAC/NOAH/Duffy did not rehabilitate the criminal offenders in downtown Hyannis. He was not aware that I recognized him from election night where he was a late arrival to Michael O’Keefe’s Victory Party at the Cape Codder. I attended the function with my sister and her friend Keith McManus, Esq. Keith once worked in the internship program at the District Attorney’s Office. This particular attorney who donated heavily to Mr. O’Keefe’s Campaign had provided me with legal advice in regard to NOAH. He is indeed the local attorney who suggested that the conditions at NOAH and the threat it presents to the community warranted a court injunction. He offered to file the motion in Barnstable Court roughly three weeks before I met Mr. O’Keefe and the decision to dismantle the camps was virtually made.
As you know, I have suggested and maintained that the Mildred’s Chowder House is a necessary component of the expansion project proposed by Housing Assistance Corporation. Mildred’s was intended to be used to warehouse clients that cannot meet the stringent applications process supervised by Chief John Miller in Sandwich. Mr. Princi promised the residents of Sandwich that clients that failed at rehabilitation at the experimental farm would be driven promptly back to the NOAH Shelter/Mildred’s in Hyannis. He also stated that Housing Assistance Corporation maintains a good working relationship with the Barnstable Police Department. Several of the uniformed officers that responded to frequent calls at 72 North Street were upset by this suggestion.
Mr. Presbrey has also stated that the Barnstable Police Department would verify that there were no more dangerous sex offenders living at NOAH than in any other sect of the community. He stated that I was “irresponsible” for suggesting otherwise. I have enclosed the SORI of pedophiles and rapists that have been traced to NOAH. Five of the sex offenders are known to the NOAH campus. Two pedophiles have been reincarcerated and are not available for publication, and Jose Correira who has assaulted me offended prior to 1989. Once again, these clients are only a sampling of recidivist offenders that live at or about NOAH and do not include offenders that were incarcerated before Megan’s Law was enacted.
Senator O’Leary maintains an unwavering commitment to NOAH and is aware of the public safety issues presented by this negligent and substandard organization. I have forwarded a copy of this to Nancy Paccia whose daughter was accosted in Ways News and Philip Tracy, Esq. who represents Julie Donahue, the mother of Jonathan Wessner.
The shelter staff has informed me that they have no record of Leon Quick living or working at the shelter. I have requested a copy of a check paid to him by The Duffy Clinic and cashed by me on a local bank account. They also say they don’t remember Paul Nolin. There is a credible source that remembers him well and identified him from a picture. She remembers him mainly from the Salvation Army Outreach Ministry Program. A woman named Rita who served on The Duffy Clinic Client Advisory Board stated Jean Bauer was recently seen shredding and burning documents. Arlene Crosby stated that this was “normal” as the clinic often shreds and burns “old records”.
I realize that the Barnstable Police Department works in collaboration with the District Attorney and that Chief Finnegan may have been instructed to sign off on the shelter initiative accordingly. I am unsure whether the Chief’s intent was to reassure an unsuspecting public that the clientele at the shelter was indeed “safe”. The uniformed police officers that attended to narcotics problems at 72 North Street appeared fully cognizant of the recidivist sexual predators living at NOAH.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Sincerely,
Mary Clements
cc. Chief John Finnegan
Minutes from the Barnstable Airport Commission.
(Click on to enlarge).
(Rick Presbrey of Housing Assistance Corporation clearly indicates that there are no sex offenders or violent criminals associated with the NOAH Shelter. Refers to client as "irresponsible" for suggesting felons are harbored at the shelter during a meeting to address an expansion project in 2003)
Mary Clements
PO Box 134
Marion, MA 01738
August 18, 2003
Mr. Michael O’Keefe, Esq.
Office of the District Attorney
Rt. 6A
Barnstable, MA
Dear Mr. O’Keefe,
Please read and observe some of the documentation I have provided. I can’t say that I am particularly pleased in regard to your comments suggesting “deference” to the sovereign rights of the offenders in downtown Hyannis. I have even less appreciation for the arrogance of the agency and organization that protects and enables uncivil behavior. I suppose it may be a “litmus test” for coming elections. Support for this initiative may be caustic. I’m hoping for the best.
Sincerely,
Mary Clements
