Pretrial Probation for Pharmacist Charged With Malicious Destruction to Property Under $1,200

Our client is a pharmacist. On January 15, 2020 he and the driver of another vehicle got into a verbal altercation over this person taking our client’s parking space. Infuriated, our client returned to the location where the victim parked and slashed her car tires. Unbeknownst to him, security cameras in the area captured the entire incident. Our client left the area and was summonsed to court for malicious destruction to property under $1,200, a violation of G.L. c. 266 section 127. He never received the summons and a warrant issued. Yesterday, he was pulled over for a moving violation and the officer alerted him to the outstanding warrant. Our client called our office to represent him. We went into court to remove the default. While doing so we prevailed on the assistant district attorney to agree to pretrial probation under G.L. c. 276 section 87. The case will be dismissed once our client makes restitution in the amount of $250.

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