Commonwealth v. Cimino

A complaint in the Lawrence District Court charged the defendant Ignatius Cimino in seventeen counts with the wilful and malicious destruction or injury of seventeen respective items of property, each having a value exceeding $250. See G. L. c. 266, § 127, as amended through St. 1987, c. 468, § 5, set out in the margin.1

Upon bench trial, Anthony Simone, a Methuen police officer, testified thus. At 5:29 a.m., October 6, 1990, Simone, on cruiser patrol, responding to a radio call, observed an Eldorado automobile parked on Oakside Ave*926nue which had evidently been struck through one of its windows…