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Called a public menace a decade ago, Weymouth man arrested again
Created by Patriot Ledger - Lane Lambert on 3rd April 2010, 10:10 amCOHASSET - A Weymouth man who was called a “public menace” by prosecutors a decade ago after he was convicted of killing a woman in a car crash has been arrested again, this time for breaking and entering.
Cohasset police have charged Michael A. Subenko, 31, with breaking into a house in town last November, stealing jewelry and using a stolen credit card to buy $853 in merchandise at several Braintree stores.
Subenko was convicted in 1999 and sentenced to 12 to 15 years in prison for killing Mary Anderson of Weymouth when he struck her car in Hingham during a police chase in 1996.
Subenko had stolen a Mercedes-Benz in Marshfield and led police on a chase along Route 3. Anderson, 43, was killed when Subenko lost control of the stolen car and slammed into Anderson’s car. He also hit a van and injured the driver and a child.
At the time, prosecutors said Subenko had racked up 83 arraignments beginning when he was 12. When he was convicted in the 1999 homicide, Plymouth Superior Court Judge Charles Barrett said Subenko, “started a crime wave at age 12 and hasn’t changed.”
Barrett called Subenko “an incorrigible public nuisance” and said he was “not a fit candidate for rehabilitation.”
His latest arrest involves a break-in in Cohasset on Nov. 20.. Subenko was charged in Quincy District Court on March 24.
The eight charges against him also include larceny with a credit card and identity fraud. If convicted on all counts he could be sentenced to a total of nearly 50 years in prison.
