Squibnocket Farm couple charged with assault and battery

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Squibnocket Farm resident and former Wall Street operator Damon Vickers was arrested on October 15 on charges of assault and battery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. — Courtesy Dukes County Sheriff's

Damon Vickers, 53, and Luiza Vickers, 38, both of Squibnocket Farm, were arrested Oct. 25 by Chilmark Police and a state trooper on charges of assault and battery, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.

Mr. Vickers was later released on $10,000 cash bail after surrendering his passport and being fitted with a GPS device. Ms. Vickers’ bail was set at $5,000. She also was required to surrender her passport and receive a GPS tracker. Court documents indicate the case against the Vickers may involve alleged child abuse.

The Vickers are represented by Falmouth attorney Drew Segadelli. Reached by telephone, Mr. Segadelli said he’s confident his clients will be vindicated. He said the charges are a mischaracterization of discipline of “wholly undisciplined adolescents,” and that “things were getting out of hand.” He also alleged the children mistreated their mother.

Chilmark Police Chief Jonathan Klaren declined to comment on the charges, citing the ongoing nature of the investigation.

Documents from the State of Washington Department of Financial Institutions and Securities Division indicate that Mr. Vickers got into serious legal trouble while acting as some type of broker there in 2015. He is accused of “dishonest and unethical practice,” and it is alleged he engaged “in an act, practice, or course of business which operated as a fraud or deceit upon his customers.”

Records indicate his ability to broker and financially consult may have been revoked in that state.

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  1. Your journalistic standards on the reporting of this story is very disappointing. I expect better from a paper I otherwise admire. First what relevance or public interest was served by the inclusion of unspecified and vague inference/innuendo of financial improprieties to a story of a family conflict? Not only is there the presumption of innocence but the inclusion of irrelevant material to a charge of alleged assault undermines chances at an Impartial jury pool. Don’t you have fact checkers in staff? Why rely on inference and suggestion? Oh publishing deadlines, I forgot. Further, what makes this alleged A and B anymore reportable than the dozens you dont bother to report on which go before the court everyday? You have underserved your readers and we deserve better.

  2. Mr Kozak. The times recorded the incident correctly and provided the defendant attorneys claim that this is a mischaracterization. Further research of public records showed some irregularities with the defendant. All of this is absolutely acceptable. Furthermore your presumption of innocence issue is a judicial concept intended for the courts. Ordinary citizens not sitting as judge or jury are not required to assume that everyone arrested is innocent. Indeed we would be fools if we thought so. I dont know what happened and neither do you and the Times reported appropriately. By the way is the Uzbek guy who ran down and killed people in NYC presumed innocent?

  3. When I read the headline, I initially though maybe someone had clocked that obnoxious mouthpiece for those rich guys who are so intent on hurting the town.

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