Dwayne Moore was charged yesterday with four counts of murder and with assault with intent to murder in connection with the shooting executions of four people, including a toddler, in Mattapan. Kimani Washington, Moore’s alleged associate, has been charged with gun law violations, and it is unclear whether he will…
Nine years after the death of former federal intern Chandra Levy, Ingmar Guandique has been found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder. It took the jury 3 ½ days of deliberations to reach its verdict. Although prosecutors had originally charged Guandique with nine criminal counts, including first-degree murder, attempted…
Carmen Picardi, a 39-year-old Everett man, pleaded not guilty today to charges of mayhem and armed assault with intent to murder. He was arraigned in Boston Municipal Court and held on $75,000 cash bail. It is alleged that Picardi attacked a woman with a baseball bat in Boston on Halloween.…
Hans Johnson, a 20-year-old Attleboro man, has been charged with conspiracy to commit home invasion. He was scheduled to be arraigned in Attleboro District Court today. The arrest was made in connection with the June 23 beating and shooting death of 24-year-old Dylan Adams. Johnson is the third person charged…
The person who was found dead in Milton last week has been identified as a 16-year-old from North Carolina. The teen had disappeared from his father’s North Carolina home, and his father had reported him missing hours before his body was found badly mutilated. The teen’s paternal aunt told the…
Benjamin Haskell, a 25-year-old Springfield man, was sentenced to 6 years in a case brought by Massachusetts prosecutors. The sentence is concurrent with his 9-year federal sentence for burning down the Macedonia Church of God in Christ, a mostly-black church, to protest the 2008 election of President Obama. Haskell pleaded…
A man is in critical condition after being shot in the laundry room of his Lowell apartment building. The Middlesex district attorney’s office, the Lowell police and the state police are currently conducting an investigation. No arrests have been made yet. The victim is being treated at Brigham and Women’s…
Two Newton teenagers, 17-year-old Benjamin Peirce and 18-year-old Shaquan Jacobs, were arraigned Wednesday in Superior Court in Woburn on murder, armed robbery and firearms charges. Both pleaded not guilty. The charges arose from the September fatal shooting of Adam Coveney, a 29-year-old Waltham man. Prosecutors allege that the teens arranged…
Police have charged 45-year-old Joseph Ghella of South Boston in the carjacking of a limo in front of a church where a wedding was taking place. The alleged carjacking occurred last Saturday in Dorchester around 1:45 p.m. A man who was allegedly armed with a hammer forced the driver and…
An armed robbery occurred early Thursday in the famous Harvard Yard. A man who was unaffiliated with Harvard University was robbed at gunpoint outside of a freshman dorm around 2:45 a.m. He gave his wallet to the robber and fled from the area. The robber was described as a thin,…