A Vineyard Haven resident, who was a former Tisbury Select Board candidate, was sentenced to five years of probation for two counts of felony rape at the Edgartown Courthouse in October.
Macaleer B. Schilcher, 41, was sentenced at a Dukes County Superior Court hearing after he changed his plea to guilty for two of his four counts of felony rape. Schilcher’s two other counts of felony rape were dismissed.