Last Friday, I told you that I was originally going to blog about a Massachusetts sex offender who had gotten arrested for urinating at an MBTA stop. If you are unaware of the gentleman’s story, you can read about it here as reported by our news-blogger. It may have made…
This year to date, MBTA Transit Police have made 35 arrests for open and gross lewdness on the T and buses, marking an 84 percent increase in such arrests since 2009. However, this statistic may be attributable to an increase in such incidents being reported. Around this time last year,…
A funny thing happened to me today on the way to the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog: I got Pi…really angry. I had planned to end the week with a pleasant little story about a gentleman getting arrested at an MBTA stop. It appears that he turned out to be a…
William Gibbons, a 48-year-old Level 3 sex offender, was arrested Wednesday afternoon when Transit police allegedly saw him publicly urinating on a Downtown Crossing platform. He was charged with indecent exposure and failing to register as a sex offender. Transit police were notified around 4:45 p.m. that a man had…
Anthony Gabriella, a 20-year-old Malden man, has been indicted by a Middlesex Grand Jury on charges of disseminating child pornography and two counts of possession of child pornography. He will be arraigned on December 13 in Middlesex Superior Court. The Massachusetts Crimes Against Children Task force conducted an investigation in…
Lawrence Follett, a 46-year-old of Billerica and former Boxborough elementary school teacher, pleaded guilty in federal court to child pornography possession charges and is scheduled to be sentenced on March 8. Prosecutors say they’ll recommend that Follett serve 2 years and 3 months in federal prison and 10 years of…
Some people can always be found in one type of court or another. Take, for example, New York City basketball czar Ernest Lorch. He was arrested this week by the United States Marshals Service after failing to appear for arraignment on sex abuse charges out of Massachusetts last week. Lorch…
The Massachusetts sexual crime case against Austin Renaud, one of the ex-South Hadley High School students charged with statutory rape in the Phoebe Prince suicide-bullying case, is scheduled go to trial next year. The 18-year-old has been charged as an adult. He has pleaded not guilty to the rape charge.…
Police in Springfield have Impressed criminal justice onlookers this past weekend. They went out a-hunting and made 50 arrests which should keep the local district court humming for a day or so. These arrests were for the most serious crimes, of course. They range from drug possession to prostitution all…
On Friday, Boston’s Supreme Judicial Court, the highest state court in the Commonwealth, passed down a ruling that underscores the contractual aspect of being on probation, particularly in sexual assault cases. The ruling indicates that new probation restrictions cannot be imposed on sex offenders – such as wearing a GPS…