WEYMOUTH - With a large amount of the powerful painkiller fentanyl seized in a raid earlier this week in Weymouth, and the announcement by State Police Tuesday that multiple communities in the region were found to have seized the even more potent drug carfentanil, police are becoming increasingly more concerned about the trends they’re seeing. "There has been a disturbing amount of fentanyl showing up in the area," said Weymouth Police Captain Richard Fuller. [...]
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South Shore, state police fear growing fentanyl, carfentanil trend
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South Shore, state police fear fentanyl, carfentanil trend
WEYMOUTH – With a large amount of the powerful painkiller fentanyl seized in a raid earlier this week in Weymouth, and the announcement by State Police Tuesday that multiple communities in the region were found to have seized the even more potent drug carfentanil, police are becoming increasingly more concerned about the trends they’re seeing. "There has been a disturbing amount of fentanyl showing up in the area," Weymouth police Capt. Richard Fuller said. [...]
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Hanover doctor charged with 'double dipping' on addiction treatment bills
BOSTON - Attorney General Maura Healey has accused a Hanover doctor of charging "vulnerable" patients for an opioid addiction treatment that was covered by the state’s Medcaid programDr. Ashok Patel, who works out of an office in Dorchester’s Carney Hospital, was indicted Thursday on two counts of larceny over $250 and one count each of submitting a false Medicaid claim and billing excessive charges. His arraignment in Suffolk Superior Court has not yet been scheduled. [...]
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Milton police investigating hateful messages at Curry College
MILTON - Police are investigating a series of hateful and ‘intimidating’ messages left on the Curry College campus in what appears to be at least two unrelated incidents.Police and college officials are saying little publicly about the content of the messages, some of which were found Tuesday in a dormitory bedroom and on the windshield of a parked car. College spokeswoman Jecoliah Ellis said the college had received four reports of incidents involving messages [...]
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New defendants named as sex trafficking probe widens
BOSTON - Ten people have been indicted for their role in an online escort service accused of trafficking women for sex in several Massachusetts towns, including Braintree.The defendants indicted Thursday include two 46-year-old New Hampshire women, Sonya Palic and Charlotte Napolitano, who were arrested in February and accused of running the website, called Chole’s Companions. Other defendants named in the indictments, which was handed down by a statewide grand jury, include [...]
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Quincy teen, burglar startle each other, jump out windows
QUINCY - A teenager was so scared by a would-be burglar that broke into her one-story Quincy home Thursday afternoon she jumped out of her bedroom window, police said.The girl, who police did not identify, was in her home on Hilma Street when she heard the sound of someone rifling through drawers in her kitchen from inside her bedroom, Quincy Police Capt. John Dougan said.Her mother had left for work a short time earlier and no one else was in the home.The [...]
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Abington man charged with robbing three banks
John Soule, 52, was charged in federal court of robbing banks in Boston, Quincy and Cambridge.
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Man stole pocketbook from woman inside Canton store
Police released surveillance images Monday in hopes of identifying the suspect.
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Man held knife to clerk's throat in Canton robbery
The suspect held a knife to the clerk's throat while demanding money.
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Randolph RMV worker could get 8 months for issuing fraudulent IDs
BOSTON - A Randolph woman accused of using her job at the Registry of Motor Vehicles to produce fraudulent identification documents could spend eight months in prison if a federal judge accepts a plea agreement reached with prosecutors.Kimberly Jordan, 33, is among four former registry clerks who have agreed to plead guilty to charges stemming from the alleged scheme at registry office at Haymarket in Boston. Two other defendants have been charged as well, including a Dominican [...]
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Kingston man held without a bail after gunfire reported in Carver
CARVER - A Kingston man is being held without bail on charges stemming from a report of gunfire at a Carver home last week.Carver police said the 40-year-old man, who was not identified, was arrested in Plymouth on charges of attempted murder, assault to murder, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building and subsequent-offense possession of a firearm without a license. A hearing will be held to determine whether he would pose a danger to the public if released. [...]
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Brother: Las Vegas gunman was wealthy real-estate investor
MESQUITE, Nev. — Stephen Paddock lived in a tidy Nevada retirement community where the amenities include golf, tennis and bocce. He was a multimillionaire real-estate investor, recently shipped his 90-year-old mother a walker and liked to travel to Las Vegas to play high-stakes video poker.Nothing in his background suggests why he would have been on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino with at least 17 guns on Sunday night, raining an unparalleled slaughter [...]
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He 'saved my life and lost his:' Las Vegas shooting victims
A registered nurse from Tennessee who died shielding his wife, a doctor, from gunfire. The only son of a Canadian couple who is now left childless. A popular secretary at a New Mexico High School.All were among the at least 58 people killed in the mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas.Details began to emerge Monday about some of those slain and the hundreds more who were injured after a gunman opened fire on festivalgoers. [...]
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Cops: Man charged with selling cocaine to minors in Weymouth
WEYMOUTH - A 19-year-old homeless man was caught selling cocaine to minors in North Weymouth Monday night and then fled from officers who attempted to search him, police said.Emanuel Lopes was arrested and charged with possession to distribute cocaine to a minor, possession to distribute cocaine and resisting arrest.Around 5:30 p.m., police received a call from someone who said they just witnessed a drug deal. Officers responded to an area known as The Shelf near [...]
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9-pound bag of drugs thrown from Quincy apartment amid FBI raid
QUINCY - The FBI says a Quincy man threw a bag of drugs weighing nearly nine pounds of out a window as agents were preparing to raid his apartment last month.Jonathan Andrade was arrested at his apartment at 290 Quarry St. on a charge of possession of 500 grams of cocaine with intent to distribute. Andrade waived a detention hearing in U.S. District Court later last month and is being held in the custody of U.S. Marshals.The FBI says agents were trying to force open [...]
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Counselors say Las Vegas shootings 'struck a nerve' with clients
Less than 48 hours after a shooter killed 59 and wounded more than 500 at a country-music festival, South Shore counselors said clients sound almost as shaken as they were by the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings.
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Man accused in Weymouth murder indicted by grand jury
WEYMOUTH - A man accused of killing his former girlfriend in Weymouth - who was also recently added to State Police list of most wanted violent fugitives - was indicted Tuesday in Superior Court.Cornel Bell, 46, is wanted in the murder of his former girlfriend, Michelle Clarke, 33, in her home at Lake Street home on Aug. 19, police said.As of Wednesday, Bell was still on the run from authorities. Last week he was added to the State Police’s Violent Fugitive [...]
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Pembroke man charged with rape
A 21-year-old Pembroke man has been charged with impersonating a police officer, aggravated rape, kidnapping with sexual assault while armed and assault with a dangerous weapon.Irakli Patsuria was taken into custody after the Dennis police secured a warrant for his arrest, according to court documents. The charges come from events that occurred on Sept. 20. Patsuria pleaded innocent at his arraignment Friday in Orleans District Court. He is free on $5,000 cash bail [...]
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Police say Pembroke woman left dying crash victim in road
Danielle Mastro showed little emotion at her arraignment for the death of Deborah Combra of Bridgewater in a hit-and-run crash on Tuesday in Brockton. She told police she had been drinking and was on her way to buy heroin.
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Weymouth man charged with domestic violence, animal cruelty
WEYMOUTH - A dangerousness hearing has been scheduled for Friday for a Weymouth man who police said punched and struck his girlfriend multiple times during an argument earlier this week.Albert Richardi, 26, of Bluff Road, Weymouth was charged with domestic assault and battery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and animal cruelty.He was arraigned on Tuesday and was ordered to be held without bail. He is due back in court again on Friday for the hearing to [...]
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