Sex offender charged with assaulting 3 kids playing basketball in Weymouth
WEYMOUTH – A homeless Level 2 sex offender is being held on $25,000 bail after police say he assaulted three young children who were playing basketball outside a Weymouth apartment complex.Robert C....
View ArticleGuns brandished in Quincy home invasion
QUINCY - Two men armed with guns forced their way into a Quincy home Monday morning, police said.Police were called around 7:30 a.m. for a report of a home invasion. As of Tuesday morning no arrests...
View ArticleScott Wolas, alleged Quincy con man, arraigned for wire fraud
BOSTON - The man whom authorities call Scott Wollas, but whom former Quincy friends and colleagues knew as Eugene Grathwohl, has pleaded not guilty to federal charges stemming from a pair of abandoned...
View ArticleMan threatened ex-girlfriend with gun, Plympton police say
PLYMPTON - Police arrested two men Tuesday after a report of a man threatening his former girlfriend with a gun at a home on Grove Street.Police Chief Patrick Dillon said officers arrived Tuesday...
View ArticleEx-priest's release angers lawyer for sex abuse victims
The scheduled release from prison of an ex-priest convicted of raping a child shows the need for changes in the state's civil commitment law, an advocate for clergy sex abuse victims said.
View ArticleBefore Hingham SWAT response, a report of threats to kill
A 911 call on July 8 set in motion a series of events that led to a 10-hour police standoff on a quiet Hingham cul-de-sac and the apparent suicide of 26-year-old Austin Reeves as police outside tried...
View ArticleHingham police make 'born to be wild' motorcycle arrest
Kenny Ting Wong, 36, of Quincy, faces four traffic charges after he allegedly led police on a high-speed motorcycle chase toward Cohasset and back into Hingham. He reached speeds as high as 80 miles an...
View ArticleTranscripts of 911 calls and police communications from Hingham standoff
The following are rough transcripts of audio files provided to The Patriot Ledger by Weymouth and Quincy police. Some of the audio files were unintelligible and others have been condensed. July 8, 9:19...
View ArticlePedophile priest Shanley released from Bridgewater prison
Paul Shanley was released from the Old Colony Correctional Center on Friday morning.
View ArticleCops: Quincy drunken driver ran from truck after hitting pole
QUINCY - A Quincy man struck a utility pole while driving drunk and then tried to flee on foot from a responding officer, police said.Ryan Barter, 30, of 176 Harvard St., was charged with his second...
View ArticleWeymouth man sentenced to federal prison on firearms charges
A Weymouth man was sentenced Thursday to more than six years in federal prison for possessing assault-style weapons and ammunition.Robert Nicholas Kurtzer, 36, was sentenced by U.S. District Court...
View ArticleMASS MOST WANTED: Men sought in Stoughton credit card theft
Crime occurred: June 29, 2017Location: Panera Bread, 1334 Park St. and 1 Hawes Way, StoughtonCase details: Two men stole credit cards from a woman’s purse while at Panera Bread and then went to Target...
View ArticleMan wanted for serious assault at Stoughton YMCA
Police are trying to identify a man who seriously injured another man during a fight at the Old Colony YMCA last week.
View ArticlePlymouth man facing second drugged driving offense in Weymouth
WEYMOUTH - A Plymouth man is facing his second drugged driving charge after being arrested in Weymouth.Ian Bazinet, 27, of 165 Long Pond Road, was arraigned in Quincy District Court on July 28 and was...
View ArticleQuincy man stabbed twice in back at Squaw Rock
QUINCY - A Quincy man was stabbed twice in the back at Squaw Rock in the city's Squantum neighborhood over the weekend.The 18-year-old suffered non-life threatening injuries and received stitches at...
View ArticlePolice seek to identify men after gun stolen from car in Weymouth
WEYMOUTH - Police are seeking the public's help in identifying two men after a loaded gun and two credit cards were stolen from a car in Weymouth on Sunday.Police received a report around 9 a.m. Sunday...
View ArticlePolice searching for man who robbed Quincy store at knifepoint
QUINCY - Police are searching for a man who robbed a Quincy convenience store at knifepoint.The robbery occurred on Friday around 9:35 p.m.The man stood at about 5'11" with a thin build. He was wearing...
View ArticleBraintree driver charged in Hingham crash
Michael Allen Warner, 35, was arrested Monday afternoon for alleged drunken driving and causing serious injury to the passenger of the vehicle his car struck, near the Route 3A rotary.
View ArticleState's top court limits appeals by killer serving life for 1994 Rockland...
BOSTON - An inmate convicted of helping beat a man to death outside a Rockland sandwich shop in the 1990s must obtain a single justice’s approval before filing any new appeals in his case, according to...
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