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In 2006, Linda Manna helped a constable find her former husband – wanted for being one of the state’s worst deadbeat dads – at his mother’s wake.
But the same constable suspected that Manna was less than truthful this week when he called to ask the whereabouts of her boyfriend, an ex-con who owes child support, penalties and interest totaling nearly $100,000.
“I gave her the names of a couple of attorneys he could call to keep from getting arrested,” Jerry Loomis of All State Constables Inc. of Weymouth said. “I was doing her a favor. She kept insisting her boyfriend was looking for a job out of state and was nowhere around. I asked her several times if he was here and she continued to assure me that he was out of state and wouldn’t be back until July 3.”
Loomis found that unlikely because Manna’s boyfriend, Lawrence Robertson, had only recently been released from jail and was on 10 years of probation for crashing into a car driven by a pregnant Quincy woman in July of 2005. The woman’s baby died a month after the accident, which took place on Copeland Street in Quincy.
Loomis, who runs a constable business with his son Adam, decided to go to Manna’s Patten Avenue home on Thursday to check out her story.
It was there that the Loomises and Braintree police found the 46-year-old Robertson.
“I walked to the porch area and I could see him through the glass in the kitchen,” Loomis said. “When he saw me, he took off.”
Loomis said Manna first refused to allow a search of the home, but the constables had a civil arrest warrant from Norfolk County Probate and Family Court in Canton.
Manna continued to deny that Robertson was there, according to Loomis.
When the constables went to the basement, Manna stood in front of a door and refused to let them enter.

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WENDELL Sailor scored two tries and was later subjected to a drug test as he made a successful comeback to rugby league last night.
Sailor proved himself on the field with a starring performance in a Jim Beam Cup match for St George Illawarra’s feader team, the Shellharbour Marlins.
But the stigma of his two-year ban for testing positive to cocaine remains something the dual international will have to deal with.
After the triumph of scoring the final two tries to lead the Marlins to a come-from-behind win over the Erina Eagles, Sailor was given a reality check when he was subjected to a drug test after the match.
Minutes earlier, Sailor had been followed around Ron Costello Oval by adoring fans, chanting his name. He had scored the final two tries, the Marlins coming back from a 22-0 half-time deficit to win 30-22.
"I probably would have liked to score a hat-trick, but you can’t have everything you want," Sailor said cheekily.
"I just wanted to come out and play well for the kids here and also so people don’t think I’m washed up."
St George coach Nathan Brown knows his new recruit is not short on confidence.
"I’m sure ‘Dell’ will tell me on Monday, or tonight or tomorrow (how he went). We all know big Dell," Brown said.
"We’ve been reliably informed and I’m sure big Dell will reliably inform us of that at training. He’ll turn up with video and cut his own tape and show everyone."
Sailor scored the try that put the Marlins in front for the first time, the giant winger showing he hasn’t lost his athleticism, leaping high to take a cross-field kick then stepping inside two defenders to score.
Six minutes from full-time, he demonstrated his power to crash through the Eagles’ defence for the match-winner.

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