Sheriff’s Cadet Charged In Stabbing

HARWICH – A 26-year-old cadet who is in the current training academy class for the county sheriff’s office has been charged in connection with a stabbing victim discovered on the side of Route 6 in Harwich Sunday evening.

Tatiana Jacobs of Hyannis is being held pending a dangerousness hearing after her arrest Sunday evening by state troopers who had been called to the area of Exit 82 to investigate a report of a person who had fallen out of a vehicle. Police arrived to find a man laying on his back in a pool of what appeared to be blood; he was seen to be suffering from multiple injuries to his upper body. 

The man, a 33-year old whose identity has not been released, was rushed to nearby Cape Cod Tech to be airlifted to a Boston hospital for treatment. His condition is unknown.

A news release from the Cape and Islands District Attorney’s Office indicates that the incident appears connected with a reported disturbance between a man and a woman in a town parking lot in Barnstable about 20 minutes earlier.

 “Upon arrival officers spoke to witnesses that reported that the two individuals who were fighting had left the scene,” the release reads. “Officers observed a vehicle in the parking lot that had a smashed windshield and all four tires flattened. The tires appeared to have been flattened due to slice or puncture marks in the tires with a sharp object. The vandalized vehicle belongs to the victim found in Harwich.”

Jacobs pleaded not guilty to a single charge of armed assault to murder at her arraignment Monday in Orleans District Court. She was ordered held at the county house of correction pending the outcome of a dangerousness hearing and is due back in court for a pretrial conference Friday.

Less than an hour after the district attorney’s office released details of the incident, the Barnstable County Sheriff’s Office issued its own statement confirming that Jacobs, a provisional employee while in training, had been placed on unpaid administrative leave. The sheriff’s office had no additional comment, citing the ongoing investigation.