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Leader of violent gang gets 10 years in prison
BOSTON (AP) — A Boston area leader of the violent Central American street gang MS-13 has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for a racketeering conspiracy involving assault, drug and firearms charges.Federal prosecutors said Thursday that 33-year-old Santos Portillo Andrade acknowledged assaulting a person he thought was a member of a rival gang in Malden in 2008, and pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute heroin and cocaine. Andrade, a native of El Salvador living in [...]
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Hingham police sergeant is MADD's 'Officer Of The Year'
Sgt. Steven Dearth will be honored by the Massachusetts chapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving on Oct. 17. He's been on the Hingham force for 24 years, and uses social media to highlight the issue.
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Randolph nursing home patient arraigned on murder charge
RANDOLPH - A dementia ward patient accused of beating his 86-year-old roommate to death in a Randolph nursing home has been charged with murder.Walter Rice, 58, was arraigned and ordered held without bail in the beating death of James Schappell at CareOne in Randolph on Sept. 6. A responding officer said their room was left covered in blood. Schappell later died in a hospital from his injuries.Rice was scheduled to appear in Quincy District Court Friday for a hearing to [...]
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SWAT standoff at Easton home ends with an arrest
Police from Easton, Norton and Mansfield and a SWAT team are at the scene of a standoff at 25 Old Foundry St., Easton
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Hull police charge Hingham man for construction site theft
William Francis Nickerson, 38, was arrested late on the night of Oct. 12 at a house construction site where he had worked. Police say he'd been fired by the contractor.
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Easton neighborhood paralyzed in police standoff
Two men were arrested, one on assault charges and the other on a warrant, related to an hours-long standoff on Old Foundry Street in Easton on Monday.
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7 years later, Amy Bishop shooting survivor dies
Prof. Joseph Leahy was one of three of the Braintree native's colleagues who recovered from her 2010 attack at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He died from a heart attack on Oct. 15. Bishop killed three others.
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Woman charged with breaking into Quincy's Crane Library
QUINCY - A homeless woman was arrested inside Quincy's Thomas Crane Library late Monday night after police said she broke into the building.Gabrielle Brennan, 42, who lists her address as Father Bill's Place, 38 Broad St., in Quincy, was charged with breaking and entering at night with intent to commit a felony. She also had an outstanding arrest warrant.Around 9:50 p.m., police were alerted to an alarm at an exterior door on the Coddington Street side of the library, [...]
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Police investigating alleged sexual assault at Weymouth High
WEYMOUTH - Police and school officials are investigating an alleged sexual assault that took place at Weymouth High School on Monday. A statement sent out Tuesday by Weymouth Public Schools Superintendent Jennifer Curtis-Whipple and high school Principal Alan Strauss said the incident "involves minor students.""As some of you may have heard, there was an alleged sexual assault that occurred in the building yesterday," the statement reads.School Committee [...]
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Weymouth High sex-assault suspect in custody
WEYMOUTH – Police and school officials are investigating a reported sexual assault at Weymouth High School on Monday. School committee Chairwoman Lisa Belmarsh said the person accused of the assault is in custody."There is not some unknown person running around the school," she said. A statement sent out Tuesday by Schools Superintendent Jennifer Curtis-Whipple and high school Principal Alan Strauss said the incident "involves minor students." [...]
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Two women accosted in Milton by driver of a 'vehicle for hire'
The victims were picked up near bars or clubs in other communities and brought to Milton, police said.
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Breeders shocked Lakeville man would shoot 'loving, non-aggressive' golden retriever
A Lakeville man could face seven years in state prison or two years in jail if he is convicted.
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Petition to revoke Lakeville man's gun license soars after dog's death
The petition has gained more than 104,000 signatures in just over a week.
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17-year-old arrested in alleged Weymouth High sexual assault
WEYMOUTH - Police in Weymouth announced Wednesday that a 17-year-old male was arrested in connection with an alleged sexual assault that took place inside Weymouth High School Monday.The statement by police said that the teen was being held in custody. Information about the charges he is facing and whether he is a student at the school was not available Wednesday.A statement sent out Tuesday by Schools Superintendent Jennifer Curtis-Whipple and high school Principal [...]
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Grand jury indicts Duxbury man accused of claiming to work for Homeland Security
PLYMOUTH - A Plymouth County grand jury has indicted a Duxbury man accused of falsely claiming to be a Homeland Security agent and amassing a collection of guns, ammunition, explosives and stolen medical equipment.Christopher Barlow, 20, faces six counts of receiving stolen property, four counts of unlawful possession of a firearm or ammunition and one count each of impersonating a police officer, possessing an incendiary device and unlawfully carrying a dangerous weapon. The [...]
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Man charged with placing Quincy police officer in choke hold
QUINCY - A Quincy Police officer missed a second day of work Thursday while he recovers from injuries he suffered at the hands of a man who put him in a choke hold early Tuesday morning.David V. Melnik, 26, of 10 Morton St. was arrested in the alleged assault and is charged with strangulation or suffocation, disorderly conduct and assault and battery on a police officer. He is scheduled to be arraigned on the charges on Nov. 2.The male officer was expected to fully [...]
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T rider's video helps nab sex offender
A woman riding the T through Braintree, Quincy and Dorchester helped police catch a Level 3 sex offender she caught on video fondling himself in front of passengers, police said.MBTA police on Thursday arrested Anthony Sansone, 52, a homeless man who lives in Boston, and charged him with open and gross lewdness.T passenger Meagan Fernandez, 29, said she confronted the man after taking a video of him on Oct. 13. She posted the video to Facebook hoping someone would [...]
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Brockton woman riding T takes video that helps nab sex offender
A Brockton woman riding the T through Braintree, Quincy and Dorchester helped police catch a Level 3 sex offender she caught on video fondling himself in front of passengers, MBTA police said.
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Quincy man accused in fatal Germantown crash indicted
QUINCY - A Germantown man who was recently indicted in Superior Court on a motor vehicle homicide charge had his arraignment set for early November.Christopher Murch, 22, was charged with motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation, leaving the scene of personal injury and death and leaving the scene of personal injury. He is currently being held on $100,000 bail.Murch is accused of driving a pickup truck on Aug. 7 and getting into a crash that killed 18-year-old [...]
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