UPDATE – 9/19/2022 @ 6:30PM: HN just got off the phone with Howie Carr after speaking with him on his afternoon radio show, and according to Howie, he spoke with the people at Flashback, a downtown “retro arcade bar & grill” in downtown Hyannis, and the initial details provided by Enrique...
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MEET ENRIQUE: Venezuelan migrant winds up lost, without money on streets of Hyannis…
The man told HN his name was Enrique and that he was 37-years-old. He had been one of the 50 migrants that landed on Martha’s Vineyard last week. Enrique was currently being sheltered with other Venezuelans at Joint Base Cape Cod (JBCC). Sometime yesterday – Sunday, September 18, 2022 – earlier in the day, Enrique and some of the other migrants being sheltered at JBCC arrived in Hyannis by bus. Enrique held up one of two cellphones to show me a video and some photos of him doing a little sightseeing of the Hyannis area.
But unfortunately, as the afternoon wore on, Enrique found himself separated from the group and lost in downtown Hyannis. In short, he missed the bus ride back to JBCC.
Now lost, Enrique decided to visit a downtown bar where he played video games and had a couple of beers while trying to decide what to do next.
What happens next is still a little confusing and is still being looked into by the Barnstable Police Department. Enrique told HN that about an hour or so before calling police, he had been playing an arcade video game when the man in charge of the place began speaking to him in English, which he did not understand.
At some point, according to Enrique, he was forcefully kicked out of the bar onto Main Street. And according to Enrique, his pre-loaded debit card, his only form of money, was still inside the bar somewhere, possibly in the custody of the establishment. Enrique said he had also left his eyeglasses inside the bar. Without his eyeglasses and any form of money, Enrique began walking the downtown area looking for assistance. He finally found a man on Winter Street who was kind enough to notify police.
Our sympathetic Barnstable Police Officers instantly took a liking to Enrique, eventually giving him a ride back to their headquarters until they could figure out a way to get him back to JBCC. From headquarters, a patrolman eventually drove Enrique up to the highway where a Massachusetts State Trooper kindly gave him a ride the rest of the way back to his “temporary” shelter at Joint Base Cape Cod.