Two were left dead and two are injured after a shooting in a Jamaica Plan restaurant Sunday night. It happened around 7:30 p.m. at the Sam Old Place on Centre Street. Mario Bailote, the 40-year-old manager of the Restaurant, said that a man came into the pizza place and began…
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…
In East Boston District Court, Sharnell Donahue, 31, and Diane Tuck, 51, have pleaded not guilty to the Massachusetts criminal charge of armed assault with intent to rob. Donahue also entered not guilty pleas to the charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and armed assault with intent…
Nicholas Christian, a 30-year-old Lynn man, was to be arraigned today in Lynn District Court. He is charged with unarmed robbery on a person over 60, aggravated assault on a person over 60, and receiving stolen property under $250. The charges arose from the beating of an 89-year-old woman while…
Many experienced criminal defense attorneys are going to be needed for the 23 alleged heroin dealers arrested in a large raid yesterday. The ongoing joint investigation by federal and Massachusetts law enforcement yielded arrests throughout the Commonwealth, but primarily Brockton. Naturally, there was an official on hand to accept credit.…
The Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that the marijuana, cocaine, and psilocybin mushrooms allegedly discovered in the dorm room of two Boston College students in 2007 cannot be used as evidence in the Massachusetts drug case against them. John Sherman and Daniel Carr face charges of cocaine trafficking, possession with…
A mutilated body was found in an upscale Milton neighborhood on Monday night. Police told the Boston Globe that the mutilation was extensive and gruesome. Residents are shocked that the body was found in their neighborhood, and police are looking into the possibility that the body was dumped there. 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…
There are many types of defense in the criminal justice system, They are the same in Boston as they are anywhere else. “SODDI”, Some Other Dude Did It, is one of the most popular ones. When the Commonwealth’s finger of accusation is pointed at a suspect, said suspect rarely points…
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…