In Boston Municipal Court, Fabio Brandao, the Framingham man charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and four civil rights violations in the suspected hate crime attack on three gay men and their female friend, says he is not guilty of the charges. He was released on Tuesday…
Last Thursday night, two gentlemen in Taunton learned that sometimes it is better to quietly accept a motor vehicle citation than to protest, flee and fight, thereby adding a few felony charges to the experience. Enterprise News reports that just before 5 p.m. two state troopers spotted an early-model Infiniti…
The pre-Labor Day Weekend push of commercials warning against operating under the influence did not prevent the collision between an automobile and a pedicab just before the weekend, according to a story published by the Salem News. According to the article, a 20 year old female struck the pedicab just…
According to critics, the state of Massachusetts is one of 25 US States with no laws dealing with the preservation of key DNA evidence. It is also one of seven states that do not automatically allow people convicted of crimes the right to submit their DNA to exonerate themselves from…
In Boston, prosecutors have dropped a number of the criminal charges filed against carnival worker Jeffrey Witham. The 19-year-old who was accused of raping two teenagers, ages 13 and 14, in Marshfield, had been charged with two counts of statutory rape, two counts of rape of a child with force,…
In Brockton District Court, Boston Fire Chief Peter Pearson was arraigned on Wednesday on charges of impersonating a police officer, armed kidnapping, and rape. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and posted $50,000 cash bail. He will have to wear a GPS monitoring device. The charges are related to…
In Massachusetts, Denise Egerton, a 41-year-old Milton mother, was arrested and charged with operating under the influence of alcohol, driving without a license, and speeding. Egerton had been driving the car that collided with a van in Dorchester on Friday, close to the intersection of Woodrow and Blue Hill Avenues.…
Investigated fire chief drops disability claim Friday’s Today’s Boston Globe reports that a Boston fire chief who has been on injured leave for nearly two years awaiting approval of his disability retirement claim suddenly withdrew his application this week after two witnesses recanted their initial statements about his injury and…
Police in Massachusetts have arrested Jerry Dixon, a 35-year-old man in connection to a number of unsolved rapes that happened almost 20 years ago. The arrest comes four years after another man, Anthony Powell, was released from prison for serving 12 ½ years of his sentence for a rape crime…
At Boston’s John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse, US Attorney General Michael Mukasey spoke about the identity theft scam involving over 41 million stolen and sold debit and credit card numbers that bilked individuals and companies of hundreds of millions of dollars. Mukasey called the scheme the “largest and most complex…