QUINCY - Quincy Police put the brakes on an alleged bike thief earlier this week when they said they caught the man with eight stolen bicycles valued at a total of $7,500.Bret Martinson, 30, of Spear Street was charged with five counts of receiving stolen property over $250 and three counts of larceny from a building.He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Thursday and was released without bail.Police are looking to identify the owners of two of the [...]
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Cops: Quincy man caught with 8 stolen bikes
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Court says 'no-fix' law doesn't apply in Braintree drunken driving case
BOSTON - The state Appeals Court has reversed the decision of a judge who dismissed a Braintree drunken driving case because the driver wasn’t notified of the charges until more than six weeks after the Route 3 crash that prompted them.The divided court ruled Friday that the state’s so-called "no-fix" law, which requires police to issue citations at the time of a traffic violation in most cases, did not apply in the 2014 crash because the driver was told at the [...]
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Cocaine, gambling operation busted at Stoughton American Legion hall
The raid resulted in six arrests, Stoughton Police Lt. John Bonney said. The investigation took two months to complete.
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Boston cop, Randolph native pleads guilty to skirting airport security
BOSTON - A Boston Police Sergeant Detective and Randolph resident pleaded guilty in federal court to making false statements to security personnel at Logan Airport.Bruce E. Smith, 53, lied to Transportation Security Administration personnel in order to fly while armed and get his friend past checkpoints without being properly searched, according to a statement from the state U.S. Attorney's office.He pleaded guilty on Friday to making false statements to the TSA and [...]
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Police say AT&T worker broke into company's Hingham store
HINGHAM – Police are trying to determine how an employee at an AT&T store in Cambridge got a key, alarm code and safe combination for the company’s store in Hingham.Police say Craig Akeem Robertson, 32, of Brockton, broke into the AT&T store on Hingham’s Shipyard Drive twice this month, eventually making off with 14 iPhones and cash from the store’s safe. He was arrested at the Cambridge store this past Tuesday and arraigned the following day on [...]
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Cops: Woman leapt off Quincy balcony to flee man with machete
QUINCY - A woman jumped off of a second floor balcony to escape from a man wielding a machete in Quincy over the weekend, police said.Jose Salmeron-Perez, 38, of 500 Falls Boulevard, Quincy was charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and kidnapping. He was arraigned Monday and ordered to be held on $8,500 bail. He must also stay away from and have no contact with the alleged victim.Around 5 p.m. Sunday, police received a call from 500 Falls Boulevard about a woman [...]
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Man charged with giving 7-year-old Quincy boy a black eye
QUINCY - A Roslindale man was held on $1,500 bail at his arraignment on a child abuse charge Monday, where police said he gave a 7-year-old Quincy boy a black eye for "writing a word wrong."Omar Delvalle, 29, of 162 Fonsdale Road, Roslindale, was charged with assault and battery of a child under 14 resulting in injury and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.On Sept. 1, Delvalle was in the kitchen of his girlfriend's Quincy [...]
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Skirting airport security costs Randolph man job with Boston Police
BOSTON - A Boston police sergeant from Randolph pleaded guilty in federal court to making false statements to security personnel at Logan Airport.Bruce E. Smith, 53, lied to Transportation Security Administration personnel in order to fly while armed and get his friend past checkpoints without being properly searched, according to a statement from the state U.S. Attorney's office.He pleaded guilty on Friday to making false statements to the TSA and Department of [...]
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Hull man charged after alcohol-fueled vandalism spree
Christopher E. Vanslyke, 35, was arrested late on the night of Sept. 23 for allegedly bashing window and slashing tires on three vehicles parked at a Spring Street residence. Witnesses said he'd been at a party there earlier.
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Hingham retirement community resident hospitalized with self-inflicted gunshots
HINGHAM - Social workers were made available for residents and staff at the Linden Ponds retirement community Monday after a resident was brought to the hospital with self-inflicted gunshot wounds.Dani Baldassare, a spokeswoman for Erickson Living, called the shooting an "isolated incident" in a statement and said no one else on the Linden Ponds campus was involved. She did not say whether the resident survived."Due to the ongoing police investigation and out of deep [...]
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Braintree's Amy Bishop to be featured on ABC's “20/20”
Bishop was an associate professor of biology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville when she shot six colleagues in February 2010, killing three. ABC's “Investigation Discovery” segment will air a story on the murders in 2018. Bishop is serving a life sentence without parole.
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Weymouth man charged with breaking into cars overnight
WEYMOUTH - A Weymouth man was arrested early Tuesday morning and charged with breaking into multiple cars at the Weymouth Commons apartment complex, police said.Derek J. Winslow, 20, from Lee Street, was charged with three counts of felony breaking and entering in the nighttime and being a minor in possession of alcohol. He is expected to be arraigned Tuesday in Quincy District Court.Around 12:40 a.m., police received a call stating that someone was entering cars in the [...]
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Weymouth man charged with trafficking Fentanyl, cocaine
Investigators seize more than a pound of Fentanyl, a pound of cocaine and 30 pounds of marijuana from the car and apartment of a Weymouth man.
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5 indicted for illegal sports betting at Quincy's Southside Tavern
QUINCY – A grand jury on Monday indicted an owner and a manager of the Southside Tavern on charges that they operated a "large-scale illegal sports betting operation" out of the South Quincy sports bar.John Manning IV, 39, of Marshfield; Patrick Dolbeare, 36, of Dorchester; Sean Conroy, 40, of Braintree; James Manning, 59, of Pembroke; and Nicholas Manning, 31, of Dorchester, all face charges of registration of bets, delivering and receiving for the purpose of gambling, use [...]
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Property crime reaches new lows in some South Shore towns
A new set of FBI statistics were released Monday.
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Braintree's Amy Bishop to be featured on cable channel show
Bishop was an associate professor of biology at the University of Alabama in Huntsville when she shot six colleagues in February 2010, killing three. The Investigation Discovery channel segment will air a story on the murders in 2018. Bishop is serving a life sentence without parole.
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$400,000 seized in investigation of sports betting at Quincy bar
QUINCY – A grand jury on Monday indicted an owner and a manager of the Southside Tavern on charges that they operated a "large-scale illegal sports betting operation" out of the South Quincy sports bar.John Manning IV, 39, of Marshfield; Patrick Dolbeare, 36, of Dorchester; Sean Conroy, 40, of Braintree; James Manning, 59, of Pembroke; and Nicholas Manning, 31, of Dorchester, all face charges of registration of bets, delivering and receiving for the purpose of gambling, use [...]
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Hingham 'welcome statement' could include undocumented immigrants
On Sept. 26, selectmen introduced a proposed proclamation to welcome everyone in town, regardless of faith, gender identity or any other status. The statement started from a “sanctuary community” petition that wasn't added to this spring's town meeting warrant.
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Weymouth murder suspect makes State Police most wanted list
WEYMOUTH – A man accused of killing his former girlfriend in Weymouth has been added to the State Police list of most wanted violent fugitives.Cornel Bell, 46, is wanted on a murder charge in the homicide of his former girlfriend, Michelle Clarke, 33, in her home at Lake Street home on Aug. 19.On Wednesday, the State Police’s Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section added Bell and five other fugitives to its most-wanted list.State Police said Bell is [...]
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Cops: Dozens of stolen items recovered from thief in Weymouth
WEYMOUTH - Several stolen items were recovered from a man who police said was caught after breaking into dozens of cars in South Weymouth early Thursday morning.Joao G. Gomes, 27, of Battles Street in Brockton is facing multiple counts of breaking and entering, receiving stolen property, vandalism and resisting arrest.A resident called police around 3:45 a.m. to report a suspicious person in the Pine Street area that was breaking into cars.When officers [...]
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