marshfield -- A former Bourne man convicted of raping and molesting a 16-year-old boy in Marshfield almost 20 years ago was added Friday to the State Police’s most wanted list for sex offenders. Scott A. Halle, 45, has failed to register as a sex offender and is actively being sought by the police’s violent fugitive apprehension department, according to the State Police. Police believe that Halle might be homeless. [...]
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State Police add former Marshfield man to their most wanted list for sex offenders
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State Appeals Court upholds convictions of Milton drug dealer
The state’s Appeals Court has upheld a lower court’s convictions of a Milton man arrested in 2010 for selling a pound of marijuana in a school parking lot in Quincy.The defendant, Bradley St. George, was asking for his convictions to be reversed on the basis that his motion to suppress evidence should have been allowed at trial, that the evidence was insufficient to support his convictions, and that the trial judge deprived him of the right of an effective defense [...]
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Holbrook man sentenced to prison for series of burglaries
A 39-year old Holbrook man was sentenced to 10-13 years in prison after being convicted of a series of break-ins in Hanson, Marshfield and Pembroke.
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Cops in Marshfield search for knife-wielding resident involved in fight
MARSHFIELD -- Police are searching for a 20-year-old Marshfield man they believe pulled a knife on the relative of a homeowner in Brant Rock Thursday night. A fight broke out shortly after 9 p.m. on Ocean Street when Kyle MacKinnon and Austin Sullivan, 18, arrived at a house as uninvited guests, said Marshfield police Lt. Arthur Shaw. When police arrived, both MacKinnon and Sullivan fled the scene, said Shaw. Police located Sullivan, also a [...]
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Body armor stolen from Plimoth Plantation
Three sets of replica body armor were taken from homes in Plimoth Plantation overnight Tuesday, police said.
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Hingham man pulled over for 'standing while driving,' arrested on other charge
Police stopped Ryan Delaney, 20, after a motorist called to say he was standing up in his Mercury Sable sunroof. He was arrested for driving with a suspended license. Delaney also faces a court trial for reckless driving.
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Sex offender convicted of Marshfield rape arrested by State Police
A man convicted of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old boy in Marshfield in 1998 was arrested Sunday for failing to register as a sex offended.
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Alarm may have scared off vandal who broke into Stoughton store
When a person broke the window of a store Friday night, the alarm may have scared them off.
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Ex-yacht club official heading to trial in fatal boat crash off Hull
BROCKTON - Jury selection began today in the trial of a former yacht club officials charged with motor vehicle homicide in the death of a woman who was thrown from his 24-power boat when it slammed into a sailboat moored in Hull Harbor in 2011.Prosecutors have accused Lloyd W. Thompson, a former vice commodore of the Winthrop Yacht Club, of being drunk and not paying attention when he crashed the 24-foot Captain Jack while heading toward the Salt Water Club at Windermere Point, [...]
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Quincy mother chases burglar out of family's apartment
QUINCY - Police say a Quincy woman chased a burglar out of her family’s apartment Sunday morning after waking up and finding him standing in the living room holding bags full of her family's property.Quincy Police Lt. Jack Sullivan said officers found Albert M. Wong, 25, of Braintree near the woman’s Ricciuti Drive apartment and arrested him on charges of breaking and entering during the day with intent to commit a felony, larceny of property worth more than $250, [...]
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Pursuit of Plymouth carjacking suspect ends with crashes into Taunton house
An East Bridgewater man was charged with a Plymouth carjacking after leading officers on a chase where both the suspect and one of the police officers pursuing him crashed into a Taunton house Monday afternoon
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Abington resident charged with drug offenses in Marshfield
MARSHFIELD – A 19-year-old Abington man pleaded innocent Monday in Plymouth District Court to drug charges after a run-in over the weekend with Marshfield police.Gary Reyno faces charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and cocaine possession. Police said that at about 1 a.m. on Saturday, they noticed the garage door to Bill’s Service station on Ocean Street was open.When an officer approached the station on foot, he noticed one of the [...]
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Dog chewed through leg to free himself in Middleboro cruelty case
Officials say Maverick, an emaciated German Shephard, chewed off his right rear foot in a desperate bid to escape being trapped at his Middleboro home.
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Another would-be burglar scared off by a Quincy woman
QUINCY - For the second time in as many days, police say a would-be burglary in Quincy was foiled by a woman who scared the thief off after waking up to find him in her home.Det. Karyn Barkas of the Quincy Police Department said officers are still looking for a suspect in the latest burglary early this morning on Fayette Street, which she said investigators believe was unrelated to another break in Sunday on Ricciuti Drive. The suspect was described as a man with an average build [...]
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Marshfield police say open door led officer to man snorting coke
MARSHFIELD – Police say an officer checking out an open door at an Ocean Street auto garage late Saturday night discovered an Abington man discovered a man snorting cocaine through a rolled up dollar bill.Gary Reyno, 19, was arraigned Monday on charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and cocaine possession. He is due back in Court Sept. 13.Police said that at about 1 a.m. on Saturday they noticed that a garage door was open at a service [...]
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Weymouth man indicted in assault, robbery of $2
DEDHAM - A Norfolk County grand jury has indicted a Weymouth man accused of robbing another man of $2 and punching him in the face.Jeremy Lentz is due to be arraigned Aug. 15 on charges of unarmed robbery and assault and battery in the April 11 attack in Quincy Center. The indictment moves Lentz's case from district court to superior court, where more serious crimes are prosecuted and defendants face longer sentences if convicted.Lentz was arrested in April after police [...]
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Woman sought for credit card fraud in Abington
ABINGTON – An unidentified woman wearing hospital scrubs in a store surveillance video is being sought by police for credit card fraud, police said.The woman walked into the Stop & Shop at 375 Centre Ave. on Thursday, June 30 and "used stolen credit card information to fraudulently purchase gift cards," police said in an e-mail [...]
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Weymouth cops say man concealed crack in his underwear
WEYMOUTH – Police say a Boston man is facing drug charges after officers found $700 worth of crack cocaine in his underwear.Officers arrested James Ferriter, 33, of 18 Santuit Road, Tuesday afternoon on several warrants and then located the crack cocaine with the help of a drug-sniffing dog, police said.He was held without bail overnight and was due to be arraigned Wednesday in Quincy District Court on charges of distribution of crack cocaine, possession with [...]
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Pembroke disturbance leads to charging of 2
PEMBROKE – Two men pleaded innocent Tuesday morning in Plymouth District Court to charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon stemming from a disturbance that occurred Monday night on Mattakeesett Street in Pembroke.Pembroke police arrested Donald Kopp, 59, of Pembroke and Richard Wassell, 60, of Hanson sometime after 8 p.m. Monday, but they declined to provide details about what happened leading up to the arrests.Kopp and Wassell are being held in [...]
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Weymouth cops say man concealed crack in his underwear
WEYMOUTH – Police say a Boston man is facing drug charges after officers found $700 worth of crack cocaine in his underwear. Officers arrested James Ferriter, 33, of 18 Santuit Road, Tuesday afternoon on several warrants and then located the crack cocaine with the help of a drug-sniffing dog, police said.He was held without bail overnight and was due to be arraigned Wednesday in Quincy District Court on charges of distribution of crack cocaine, possession [...]
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