Adolphus Nwokeji, a 22-year-old Beverly man, allegedly strangled a woman at Bridgewater State University late last week, and he was forced to stop by a karate kick to the stomach by another woman, police said.
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Bridgewater State student ordered off campus for allegedly strangling woman
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$1,000 bail for driver in Cohasset crash caught on video
QUINCY - Bail has been set at $1,000 for a Scituate woman charged with drunken driving after a harrowing head-on crash caught on video in Cohasset over the weekend.Laura Farrell, 53, was arraigned Wednesday on charges including drunken driving causing serious injury, negligent driving and failing to drive in marked lanes. She had been scheduled for arraignment the previous day but never showed up.Police said Farrell was driving a 2012 Jeep south on Route 3A, also known [...]
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Quincy man charged with trying to stab bus driver
BOSTON - A Quincy man was arrested late Tuesday night after police said he tried to stab an MBTA bus driver through an open window.The bus driver told police that Dennison Drew, 25, had walked up to his bus, which was not in service, just outside of Dudley Station in Boston around 10:40 p.m. Tuesday. When the driver signaled to Drew that he could board the bus, he said Drew came around to the driver’s side and tried to stab him through the window.The driver told [...]
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Dementia patient held for beating death of 86-year-old roommate at Randolph nursing home
RANDOLPH – A 58-year-old dementia patient at a Randolph nursing home has been arrested for the fatal beating of his 86-year-old roommate.The Norfolk District Attorney's Office said Walter Rice Jr. bludgeoned James Schappell with a piece of furniture before 9 a.m. Tuesday morning in the dementia ward at Care One on Thomas Patten Drive. Schappell was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he died Wednesday night.Prosecutors said the weapon [...]
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Quincy Police to crack down on underage drinking with compliance checks
QUINCY – Police plan to crack down on underage drinking in Quincy in the coming weeks with the help of a $10,000 grant.The money, which was provided by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Highway Safety Division of the state’s Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, will help pay for liquor-law compliance checks at Quincy shops and restaurants to ensure they are checking IDs and not serving or selling alcohol to minors.The [...]
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86-year-old dementia patient in Randolph allegedly killed by roommate
RANDOLPH – When Officer Stephen Morse stepped into room 375 on Wednesday morning, he found blood splattered on the walls, soaking a pillow and coating two beds.It was here that police say 58-year-old Walter Rice beat to death 86-year-old James Schappell, his roommate in a dementia ward of CareOne at Randolph. Schappell was brought to Boston Medical Center, where he died from his injuries Wednesday night.Rice was initially arrested and charged with assault [...]
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Bridgewater State day care director ignored warnings in rape cases
Judith Ritacco, the former director of the day care at Bridgewater State University, admitted to sufficient facts for a guilty finding Thursday morning on the charges of reckless endangerment of a child, failing to report suspected child abuse as a mandated reporter and witness intimidation.
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DA: Four murdered in Groton
Authorities say four people were found dead at a home in the small town of Groton in north central Massachusetts. A suspect is in custody.Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan says police found two women and a man dead inside a home on Common Street Friday night and another woman's body outside. She says they appeared to have died of blunt force trauma.Ryan says Orion Krause, 22, will be charged with four counts of murder. A possible weapon was found. It wasn't known [...]
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Four murdered in Groton
A 22-year-old man will face murder charges in the deaths of four people found at a home in the small town of Groton in north central Massachusetts.Police in Groton found two women and a man dead inside a house and another woman's body outside on Friday night. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said the victims— an elderly man and woman and two middle-aged women —appeared to have died of blunt force trauma. Their identities and other details had not been released [...]
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Police seek Quincy gas station robber
A man held up Prestige Gas Station on Franklin Street at gunpoint Saturday night.
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Holbrook selectmen praise three police officers
HOLBROOK -- The selectmen recently honored police Sgts. Bill Marble and Brian M. MacGregor and patrolman Casey Surprenant.A call from a resident expressing gratitude prompted Police Chief William J. Smith to commend Marble.The caller first contacted Holbrook police because she was having an issue with a former boyfriend and didn’t feel safe in her own home."She stated she was so upset that she hadn’t slept in several days," Smith said. [...]
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Hingham lawyers named officers of Mass. Bar Association
Hingham resident Christopher P. Sullivan has been elected president of the Massachusetts Bar Association and John J. Morrissey, also of Hingham, has been elected treasurer.Sullivan is a partner at Robins Kaplan LLP in Boston, representing clients in civil litigation involving securities fraud, shareholder disputes and intellectual property cases. He is a fellow of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, the American Bar Foundation and the Foundation for the Federal Bar Association. [...]
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Suspect charged in 2016 death of elderly man in Dedham
A Boston man has been indicted for the murder of 89-year-old Ignazio Chermesino, who died two weeks after he was assaulted in a robbery.Nicholas Durfee, 36, of Roslindale, has been held on $100,000 bail since his arrest on June 8, 2016, for the robbery. Chermesino died three days later.Durfee pleaded innocent at his arraignment in Dedham District Court.The case went to a grand jury after the state medical examiner ruled the death a [...]
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Suspect in shooting of Raynham father, son linked to Boston murder
Police believe a shooting of two motorcyclists on Route 93 was the beginning of an apparent rampage in which a man killed a woman, then crashed a vehicle.
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Quincy man charged with child rape
QUINCY - A Quincy man is free after being arraigned last week on two counts of child rape with force.Following his arraignment Thursday in Quincy District Court, David DeBoer, 53, of 145 Billings St., Unit 2, was prohibited from having any unsupervised contact with the alleged rape victim or any children younger than 18. Judge Mary Beth Heffernan released DeBoer without requiring him to post bail.A police report supporting the charges was impounded at the request of [...]
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South Boston man charged with breaking into Quincy restaurants
QUINCY - Police have arrested a South Boston man suspected of breaking into three restaurants and one grocery store in Quincy this weekend.Dennis Reddy, 65, was due to be arraigned Tuesday on charges of breaking and entering at night, larceny from a building, larceny of more than $250, defacing property and possession of burglary tools. He was arrested Monday in Quincy.Sgt. Karyn Barkas said Reddy is suspected of breaking into Fowler House Café, Brother's Roast [...]
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Police: It appears gunman did not know victims in Expressway shooting
TAUNTON - It does not appear the gunman in Sunday night’s Expressway shooting knew the victims, state police spokesperson David Procopio said Tuesday.But state police are not calling the incident road rage either."We’re not prepared to call it road rage but it does not appear the highway victims knew the person who shot them," Procopio said.The unidentified 54-year-old Raynham man and his son, a 32-year-old man from East Taunton, were driving [...]
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She cleaned up, then Whitman woman cleaned them out, police say
Kathryn N. Astuto, 32, of Whitman, was arraigned at Brockton District Court on Tuesday, where she was hit with eight counts of larceny over $250. This comes after Astuto was initially arraigned in late May for four charges of receiving stolen property over $250 and one count of larceny under $250 by false pretenses.
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Boston man charged with murder of Taunton man on Expressway
Lance Holloman, who was a suspect in a shooting on the Expressway and in a Dorchester home, has now been charged in both murders.
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