Charles F. Bogues, a Dorchester man, who pled guilty to the 1993 murder of a 15-year-old teenager, is asking a Massachusetts appeals court to set aside his conviction. Bogues’s father, Boston police Officer Charles T. Bogues, says his son would like another chance to go to trial. Bogues, 38, says…
In Massachusetts, a former US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit records clerk was arrested for allegedly selling OxyContin. Christopher Cook allegedly sold 200 OxyContin pills to someone working undercover with the FBI. Cook, 28, was to be given $7,600 for the pills. The undercover witness agreed to work…
A Hull, Massachusetts man was arrested on five counts of larceny and securities fraud. According to the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office, Jeffrey Gruber, 44, misrepresented himself as a stockbroker and certified financial planner from October 2005 until March 2006. He gave a “client” advice about stocks, bonds, a real estate…
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer says he is resigning from his position following allegations that he was involved with an international prostitution ring. Spitzer had once served as a prosecutor and New York Attorney General and had built his reputation on prosecuting high profile white collar criminal cases against Wall…
In Boston, Massachusetts, the civil rights trial of Shawn Drumgold, the man wrongfully convicted of killing a 12-year-old girl, is under way. Drumgold, now 42, served 15 years in prison for the 1988 murder of Darlene Tiffany Moore who got caught in the middle of a gang fight in a…
The Boston criminal defense team of a Massachusetts high school student accused of stabbing a classmate to death in a bathroom at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High in Sudbury wants the charges against the boy dropped because he has Asperger syndrome (AS). The defense says that a grand jury were improperly ordered…
Woburn, Massachusetts resident Nicholas Chiaraluce has been cleared of the aggravated rape charge in an incident involving an unconscious woman in the bathroom of the Felt nightclub. In Boston Municipal Court today, the charges against him were formally withdrawn. Boston police arrested Chiaraluce after the January 19 incident. Following the…
Singer Bobby Brown, a Boston, Massachusetts native, will serve on year’s community service for cocaine possession in exchange for not being charged with possession of the drug. Massachusetts police, responding to a call to break up a fight at a Brockton Holiday Inn last December, found Brown sitting in a…
Massachusetts lawmakers are assessing a number of bills aimed to place harsher restrictions on sex offenders. Today’s Judiciary Committee meeting comes just a few weeks after Cory Saunders, a high-level sex offender. raped a 6-year-old boy at a New Bedford public library. Saunders was charged with indecent assault and battery…
In Boston, Massachusetts, Damon Jamaal-Anthony Haley (The Boston Globe is reporting that his last name is Haley. The Boston Herald says his last name is Powell) has pled not guilty to assault and battery on a police officer and other charges related to a gang fight at Aria, a local…