DEDHAM — Inmates playing cards in the Norfolk County jail will have the faces of wanted suspects, murder victims and missing people staring back at them.Decks of cards featuring the photos of Massachusetts people who are missing or are the suspects of crimes were released by Norfolk County Sheriff Jerry McDermott on Tuesday in an effort to mine information from the men sitting behind bars to help solve the cases. The cards, given to inmates for free, will now be the only cards [...]
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Sheriff deals playing cards to get inmates talking
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$5,000 bail for Braintree man charged with 8th-offense drunken driving
A 49-year-old Braintree man has been arraigned on an eighth-offense drunken driving charge.
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Randolph Police: Driver offered candy to kids from inside van
RANDOLPH — Police say they've identified a man who was allegedly offering candy to school children from his van, and are asking anyone who may have witnessed a Tuesday incident to come forward.Randolph Police Chief William Pace said someone called police around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday to report that a brown van had stopped in traffic on South Man Street near Sam's Gas & Auto Repair. The caller said the driver was holding two lollipops out of the car's window and offering them to [...]
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Police arrest woman after alleged assault at Quincy dollar store
QUINCY — Police arrested a South Boston woman on Quincy Avenue Tuesday evening after they said she tried to shoplift from a dollar store and punched an employee in the face.Monica Murchison, 36, was arraigned in Quincy District Court on Tuesday with unarmed robbery, wilful malicious destruction of personal property and intimidation of a witness. She was released on a promise to return court Dec. 4. Want news like this sent straight to [...]
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Police say Abington man loaded gun, crack in waistband
BOSTON — An Abington man is being held on $15,000 bail after police stopped him while driving and found 20 grams of cocaine and a loaded gun in his waistband.Renaldo Bloodworth, 31, was arraigned in Dorchester District Court Thursday on charges of carrying a firearm without a license, carrying a loaded firearm without a license, unlawful possession of ammunition, trafficking cocaine and driving with a suspended license.Police said they stopped Bloodworth on Morton Street [...]
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Man held in killing of Randolph school board chair's son
BOSTON — A Dorchester man is being held without bail in the shooting death of 27-year-old Marcus Dunn-Gordon, the adopted son of Randolph's school board chair.Brian Joyce, 25, was arraigned Wednesday in the Dorchester Division of Boston Municipal Court on one count of murder. He is due back in court Oct. 25.Police accused Joyce of shooting Dunn-Gordon and leaving him to die in the lobby of a hotel in Dorchester on Sept. 16. Police say that Joyce then fled to New [...]
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Police say Abington man had loaded gun, crack in waistband
BOSTON — Bail has been set at $15,000 for an Abington man who police say was caught with 20 grams of cocaine and a loaded gun in his pants.Renaldo Bloodworth, 31, was arraigned Thursday in Dorchester District Court on charges of carrying a firearm without a license, carrying a loaded firearm without a license, unlawful possession of ammunition, trafficking cocaine and driving with a suspended license.Police said they stopped Bloodworth on Morton Street in the Dorchester [...]
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Boston woman indicted for manslaughter in Quincy death
Huixian Liu of Boston was indicted for manslaughter in the July death of her husband.
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Braintree, Brockton locals indicted in connection with alleged opioid conspiracy
BOSTON — A Braintree man and three others from Brockton were indicted in federal court in Boston this week in connection with an alleged conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and carfentanil in a dozen cities and towns south of, and including, Boston.The indictment charges David Fernandes, 32, of Braintree; Rickey Depina, 31, of Brockton; Keanu Fernandes, 23, of Brockton and Viviana Fontes, 29, of Brockton with conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute fentanyl [...]
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Jury: Bad advice from South Shore Hospital nurse contributed to infant's death
BROCKTON — Bad advice from a South Shore Hospital nurse contributed to the death of a 3-month-old Duxbury girl seven years ago, a Plymouth Superior Court jury concluded this week.Want news like this sent straight to your inbox? Head over to PatriotLedger.com to sign up [...]
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South Boston man found guilty of 2015 Marshfield murder
PLYMOUTH − A South Boston man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Monday after a jury convicted him of murder in the grisly death of a Marshfield man in 2015.After a two-week trial in Plymouth Superior Court, the jury deliberated for two hours Monday before finding Mark C. O'Brien, 43, of South Boston, guilty of murder, aggravated burglary, unarmed robbery and five counts each of larceny of a firearm and unlawful possession of a firearm, the office [...]
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Canton woman accused of being a part of $600,000 scam
BOSTON — A Canton woman is facing federal charges after being accused of being part of a conspiracy that defrauded businesses out of hundred of thousands of dollars.Bintu Toure, 26, was charged with wire fraud and money laundering conspiracy on Friday. She will appear in federal court in Boston at a later date.Toure participated in a scam where she and two others created fake emails in order to trick two businesses in Texas into wiring them more than $600,000, according [...]
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Milton, Braintree men charged in illegal tobacco sales
The men allegedly brought tobacco products from Pennsylvania to Massachusetts for sale without paying the required state taxes, the attorney general's office said.
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Randolph man arrested in Brockton after 10-month investigation
BROCKTON — A Randolph man on the run for 10 months on multiple warrants out of Suffolk County Superior Court was arrested Tuesday in Brockton.Hermano Joseph, 28, is accused of three counts of indecent assault and battery and three counts of assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. He is also accused of making threats stemming from a separate incident in 2013 and had additional warrants for armed carjacking and armed robbery.The Boston Police Fugitive [...]
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Quincy contractor accused of swindling customers, city
DEDHAM — A Norfolk County grand jury has indicted a Quincy man after police say he ripped off customers and filed false paperwork with the city.The indictments charge Martin Egan, 50, with larceny of more than $1,200, false statement under penalty of perjury and publishing a false financial statement.The indictments transfer Egan's case from Quincy District Court to Norfolk Superior Court where more serious crimes are tried and defendants can face longer sentences if [...]
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Quincy woman accused of maiming teenager
DEDHAM — A Norfolk County Grand Jury has indicted a Quincy woman accused of slashing a teenager's neck and prompting a police standoff this summer. The indictments charge Zarianna Pizarro, 19, with mayhem, firearm-armed assault to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, breaking and entering during the daytime for a felony, possession of a firearm without an identification card and resisting [...]
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Scituate's Billy Tibbetts gets another year in jail after drug arrest
HINGHAM — A former professional hockey player who spent two months in jail for harassing the Scituate police chief has been sentenced to almost a year in jail for violating his probation.William Tibbetts, a 44-year-old former candidate for selectman in Scituate, received his latest sentence in Hingham District Court on Wednesday, 12 days after he admitted to harassing the chief and 10 days after his arrest on drug charges in Boston's Chinatown. Tibbetts had been on the run [...]
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Police say Boston men trafficked almost 70 grams of fentanyl in Quincy
QUINCY — Two Boston men are facing criminal charges after police say they trafficked almost 70 grams of a fentanyl-laced powder in Quincy Center.Steven Soto, 22, and Samuel Cruz-Moreta, 31, were arraigned Tuesday in Quincy District Court on charges of trafficking more than 10 grams of fentanyl, trafficking between 36 and 100 grams of a Class A drug, distributing a Class A drug and conspiring to violate drug laws.Cruz-Moreta walked free this week after posting $2,500 bail, [...]
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Weymouth bank teller admits to helping steal money from accounts
BOSTON N— A 21-year-old woman pleaded guilty to fraud this week after authorities say she posed as other people to withdraw money from their bank accounts.Carlyann Amos of Randolph pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and aiding and abetting aggravated identity theft. She is scheduled to be sentenced in January.Officials said Amos was working as a bank teller at a Santander Bank branch in Weymouth when she was recruited to help conduct fraudulent [...]
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$5,000 bail for Quincy woman accused of killing husband
Police say she stabbed her husband in front of their 11-year-old daughter.
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