Mark Sargent of Fall River served two years in jail for starting fires in West Bridgewater, Scituate and Marshfield in 2012 and 2013. He was arraigned Thursday in connection with a fire in Brockton this week, and police are now looking to see if he had anything to do with at 10 other fires in Plymouth and Bristol counties.
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Serial arsonist charged with setting Brockton fire
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Mattapan man charged in Canton home invasion
Eriberto Genao, 22, was arrested coming out of a home on Brook Road in Milton.
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Police make arrest in pistol-whipping of elderly Canton man
Eriberto Genao, 22, was arrested coming out of a home on Brook Road in Milton.
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Out of jail, serial arsonist with South Shore ties charged again
Mark Sargent of Fall River served two years in jail for starting fires in West Bridgewater, Scituate and Marshfield in 2012 and 2013. He was arraigned Thursday in connection with a fire in Brockton this week, and police are now looking to see if he had anything to do with at 10 other fires in Plymouth and Bristol counties.
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MASS MOST WANTED: Man sought in Stoughton robbery attempt
Crime occurred: Friday, Sept. 22Location: Dollar Tree, 1354 Park St., StoughtonCase details: A man walked into the store and threatened the cashier with an uncapped syringe and demanded money before fleeing. He did not get away with anything.Investigator: Stoughton Police Det. Robert KuhnCase number: 19083If you have any [...]
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Holbrook woman agreed to paid sex – with undercover Brockton detective
The woman walked up to an undercover detective and agreed to sex for money, police said.
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After drunken, drugged driving crashes, surviving victims face uphill battle
Michael Carfagna was walking home from an eye doctor’s appointment in Weymouth when it happened.Karen Fontana was driving with a friend down Main Street in Hingham.Amy Westgate was 22 weeks pregnant and heading through Carver on her way to visit her parents.All were hit by drunken or drugged drivers, joining the hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. each year whose lives are irreversibly changed by impaired drivers and for whom there is often [...]
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Cops: Man took pictures up womens' skirts at Braintree mall
BRAINTREE - A Revere man was caught taking photos and videos up the skirts of multiple unsuspecting women at a store in the South Shore Plaza earlier this week.Joel Gracias-Zavala, 29, of 869 Revere Beach Parkway, was charged with four counts of photographing sexual or intimate body parts without consent.He was arraigned Thursday and was released without bail. A judge ordered him to stay away from Marshall's and the alleged victims in the case.Braintree [...]
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Cops: Man took pictures up womens' skirts at Braintree store
BRAINTREE - A Revere man was caught taking photos and videos up the skirts of multiple unsuspecting women at a Marshall's store earlier this week.Joel Gracias-Zavala, 29, of 869 Revere Beach Parkway, was charged with four counts of photographing sexual or intimate body parts without consent.He was arraigned Thursday and was released without bail. A judge ordered him to stay away from Marshall's and the alleged victims in the case.Braintree Police were called [...]
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Death of woman in Braintree hotel ruled homicide
Renia Rodriguez, 19, was found dead in a Braintree hotel room on June 22nd.
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Lakeville couple's dog shot to death by neighbor
The dog was shot five times.
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Brockton's 'Smurf,' wanted in Quincy kidnapping, captured
BROCKTON – A man wanted in connection with a 2016 kidnapping at Quincy’s Marina Bay, and who authorities say was on the run for seven months, was captured and ordered held on high bail Tuesday.Diego Barros Pires, 24, of Brockton, was arraigned in Brockton District Court related to three default warrants for allegedly failing to appear in court on open cases.Authorities say Pires had been on the run since March when he was indicted in U.S. District Court in [...]
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Cops: Man sold fentanyl in Quincy with 10-month-old in car
QUINCY - A Dorchester man will be arraigned Wednesday after police said he sold fentanyl in the Germantown neighborhood of Quincy with a 10-month-old baby in the back seat.Federico Lara, 26, was charged with distribution of fentanyl, possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and reckless endangerment of a child.Members of the Quincy Police Drug Control Unit were conducting surveillance around 2:15 p.m. Tuesday when they saw the driver of a Honda CRV make a drug deal [...]
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Whitman man charged with dealing cocaine may be detained federally
A Whitman man with a federal gun conviction is now facing multiple drug charges.
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Police: Weymouth man fled Brockton police with court date hours away
The suspect told police he fled because his license was suspended and he was due in court in a few hours.
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Hanover's Yellowman free from housing court oversight
Harold Watt Jr. – who's known as Yellowman – has been under a housing court order to clean up his cluttered Route 53 property for a year. Now his attorney says the supervision is “over.”
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SCANNER: Scituate Police engage in standoff with man Tuesday
Listen to the scanner communication from the Scituate Police standoff with Douglas Simonovitch, 46, of 491 North Main St., Oxford, on Tuesday, Oct. 10. Listeners can hear as police initially responded to a call to police from a female acquaintance of Simonovitch saying she knew he was upset and walking along Route 3A. Simonovitch had walked into the woods in North Scituate and proceeded to [...]
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Man arrested in Scituate SWAT incident given additional charges
SCITUATE - The man arrested after a five-hour standoff inside a wooded area on Tuesday, with dozens of police and SWAT officers in Scituate, has been given additional charges and is being held on bail after his arraignment Wednesday.Douglas Simonovitch, 46, of 491 North Main St., Oxford was initially charged with violating a restraining order on Tuesday. After further review of the incident, Scituate Police also charged him with assault with a dangerous weapon, threats to commit [...]
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Lakeville man charged with killing neighbors' golden retriever
A 61-year-old man is charged with malicious killing of a domesticated animal.
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