CAPTURED: Wanted Level 3 sex offender in custody after shooting flare gun at officer

YARMOUTHUpdate: Yarmouth Police report that at 11:44 AM Thursday morning, just minutes after releasing information about dangerous Level 3 Sex Offender Kevin F. Cahoon being wanted, a member of the Yarmouth Police Department Proactive Anti-Crime Unit spotted Cahoon riding a bicycle behind a building off of Long Pond Drive in South Yarmouth. 

Cahoon violently resisted arrest and during the attack–shot at the police officer with a flare gun and reached for a knife.

The Police Officer overcame the attack and Cahoon was placed in custody with the help of other off-duty Police Officers who were in the area by coincidence and came to his defense.

Cahoon is currently under heavy guard and being treated for non-life threatening injuries at Cape Cod Hospital.

The Police Officer involved suffered a minor injury and was evaluated at Cape Cod Hospital and released.

Cahoon will be held in custody at Yarmouth Police Department Headquarters overnight and scheduled for arraignment in the Barnstable District Court tomorrow on numerous new charges including the attack and shooting at a Police Officer as well as several break-ins and a pending rape case.

Previous story: The Yarmouth Police Department commends everyone who assisted in taking this dangerous felon in to custody and we are deeply grateful that the initial Police Officer and the off-duty Police Officers who came to his defense were not seriously injured.

Kevin F. Cahoon—a convicted Level 3 Sex Offender—is wanted by the Yarmouth Police Department on Felony Warrants for his involvement in recent break-ins in Yarmouth as well as failing to appear in court after being bailed for his May 2017 arrest for the Rape of a Mentally Retarded Adult in Yarmouth.

 

Cahoon is well-known to Cape Cod and Southeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement and has a long violent record of criminal charges throughout Massachusetts.

Cahoon had been incarcerated for over 20 years and Yarmouth Police have received information that he will try to obtain a firearm and shoot Police Officers when confronted as he does not want to go back to prison.

His current address or location is unknown. His last known addresses were Regional Avenue and Maple Street in South Yarmouth. He is believed to be homeless and living in wooded areas or abandoned homes in the mid-Cape area.

Cahoon is considered Armed and Dangerous.

Anyone with information is urged to immediately contact Yarmouth Police Department at 508.775.0445 extension 0 or Detective Division Commander Michael A. Bryant at 508.775.0445 extension 2122 or email us at [email protected]

WANTED PERSON

KEVIN F. CAHOON
Age: 53
Sex: M Race: W
Height: 5’09” Weight: 200
Eyes: Blue Hair: Brown

This release was prepared and distributed by the Command Staff of the Yarmouth Police Department. For further information please call the Office of the Chief of Police at 508-775-0445 extension 2115 or email us at [email protected]



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