A 21-year-old man is facing several criminal charges after police say he hit two women with a truck in the parking lot of a Hyannis restaurant Sunday afternoon, seriously wounding one of the women.
At around 1:50 p.m. Sunday, Barnstable police went to the parking area of the Tiki Port restaurant on Route 132 for reports of a hit-and-run involving multiple pedestrians, the department said in a statement. First responders treated two injured women at the scene.
One of the women was taken by ambulance to an airport and then brought to a Rhode Island Trauma Center by medical helicopter for treatment of severe injuries, police said. The other woman was taken to Cape Cod Hospital for treatment of minor injuries.
Officers identified the vehicle involved in the crash as a white pickup truck. They subsequently located and stopped the truck, police said.
The truck driver, Maxwell Dean, 21, of Yarmouthport, was arrested. He is charged with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and one count each of leaving the scene of an accident with personal injury, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, operating with a suspended license, operation of an unregistered motor vehicle, operation of an uninsured motor vehicle and attaching wrong motor vehicle plates to conceal identity.
Dean is being held on $20,000 bail at the Barnstable Police Department. He is set to be arraigned in Barnstable District Court on Monday.
