Press Release  JOVANNE MONTEIRO PLEADS GUILTY

Cape and Islands District — JOVANNE MONTEIRO PLEADS GUILTY to Home Invasion, Assault to Maim, Mayhem, and other related charges.

Jovanne Monteiro, 31, was sentenced in Barnstable Superior Court on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 to 6-12 years state prison, with 5 years probation from and after his committed prison sentence. Monteiro plead guilty to Home Invasion, Armed Burglary & Assault, Assault to Maim, Assault to Murder, Mayhem, Aggravated Assault & Battery with Dangerous Weapon and six counts of Conspiracy. His Co-Defendant, Alexa Fencher, plead guilty to almost identical offenses on December 2, 2021 and was sentenced to 8-10 state prison, with 3 years probation from and after her committed prison sentence. Co-Defendant Bryan Carlander is expected to plead guilty to similar offenses and be sentenced later in April. 

On September 23, 2016 co-defendants Alexa Fencher, Jovanne Monteiro and Bryan Carlander planned and executed an extremely violent attack on Fencher’s uncle, who was staying at his house in Centerville.  At approximately 4:00am the uncle, who had taken a restraining order out against Fencher, was sleeping in his bed.  Fencher had unlocked the side door of the home, allowing the co-defendants inside.  While Fencher’s uncle was sleeping in his bed, he was bludgeoned by Monteiro with a crowbar to his head, and was then pulled from his bed and further beaten about his head and body by both Monteiro and Carlander, all while Fencher was parked outside and waiting in her car.  The three defendants then proceeded off-Cape to Duxbury Beach where they burned incriminating bloody clothing in a burn pit. The victim sustained horrific life-threatening injuries and was med-flighted to Mass. General Hospital, where he underwent numerous surgeries due to fractures to his skull and orbital socket.   Other injuries included the permanent loss of sight in one eye, seven fractured ribs, a lacerated liver, broken bones in his hand and puncture wounds to his back, as well as several other injuries. 

This serious and violent crime was prosecuted by the Cape & Island’s District Attorney’s Office.  The District Attorney’s office whishes to thank the Barnstable Police Department Detective Division for its thorough and methodical investigation, which included countless interviews and the collection of numerous surveillance videos, and utilizing the most current technology in Cell Site Location Information to map out the positions of all three defendants that fateful evening. We would also like to show our appreciation to the Massachusetts State Police CPAC Unit for their diligence in executing numerous search warrants in this case, and our Massachusetts State Police Crime Lab and Barnstable Bureau of Criminal Investigations for their examination and analysis of the substantial amount of evidence collected in this case, including utilizing footwear impression analysis, fingerprint analysis and DNA technology used to identify the victim’s DNA on the exterior and interior of Fencher’s car and on the charred bloody clothing from the Duxbury burn pit.

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