A couple of weeks ago, The Reporter’s George Field scanned a few of Mim’s photos to run for the upcoming issue. Little did we know that he was about to unearth a local scandal! We got many IDs of the truck that came in, which follow, and these IDs lead me to unearth a bit more about this mysterious truck.
The truth of the matter was quite scandalous in fact. It seems that one Ralph Junior Gilpin, an out of work fisherman from Rhode Island, hijacked the “Carter’s Seafood Co.” truck by kidnapping the driver at gun point. Gilpin then drove the truck through Massachusets where he tied the basically unharmed driver, John Ledsworth, to a tree. He then drove the truck to Brandon where he offloaded $46,000 worth of scallops—the equivelant of $178,000 in today’s money—then burried the truck in Goshen on the Dragon property.
If anyone has more detailed information about the “Great Scallop Heist,” we’d love to hear it!
