Since it is the holiday season, Attorney General Martha Coakley is reminding consumers and businesses about Massachusetts laws regarding return policies and final sales, and prosecutors are focusing on fraud and bad checks. District Attorney Daniel F. Conley is offering help to Suffolk County businesses (those located in Boston, Chelsea,…
William Shakespeare would have been puzzled with this one. As you have probably noticed, the news in the Boston area lately has been replete with shootings, murders and other varying assaults. Some are alleged drug-related. Others come from domestic violence matters. Lynnfield, however, was the host of a murder-suicide this…
Joseph Cummings, 51, allegedly killed his pregnant girlfriend, 35-year-old Kimberly Nguyen, her sister, and himself over the baby’s last name. The two shared a home on Ledge Road in Lynnfield. Allegedly they got into an argument in their bedroom because she wanted to hyphenate the name and he did not.…
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…
It did not happen in Boston.. This time. But similar things have happened here. After all, there are often consequences to drug use…whether or not the drug involved is actually illegal. Marillis Santiago, 22, of Hartford, Conn.(hereinafter, the “Defendant”) has had a rather bad weekend. The local police say that…
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.…
A 26-year-old man from Roslindale has been charged with vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated. The Boston Globe reported that Patrick Smith, a New Jersey man, was driving along the Major Deegan Expressway in New York City when he collided with a vehicle driven by Pablo Ovalles, who was driving…
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…
Bristol County prosecutors announced today that John Loflin has been charged with the 2002 murder of Marlene Rose, whose body was found on New Bedford railroad tracks. Rose had been strangled. Until today, no one had been charged in connection with Rose’s death, but forensic science and new evidence have…
Stephen L. Foster, a 36-year-old Lynn man who escaped from a halfway house in Manchester, turned himself into authorities Sunday afternoon. Foster returned to the Calumet Transitional Housing Unit in New Hampshire around 3:30 p.m. He was discovered missing during a routine inspection around 2 a.m. on Sunday. Foster is…