Middlesex Superior Court Judge Wendie Gershengorn rejected the guilty plea to involuntary manslaughter charges made by Luiz Carlos Ribeiro in the 2006 death of a female patient. Ribeiro, who was a licensed doctor in Brazil but does not have a license to practice in the United States, performed liposuction on…
A West Boylston Middle-High School teacher says he is not guilty of committing cybersex-related crimes. In Leominster District Court in Massachusetts last week, Scott A. Simoncini, 35, pled not guilty to two counts of attempting to commit a crime and five counts of disseminating obscene material to a minor. The…
Nicholas Chiaraluce, a 21-year-old Woburn college student, was released on $30,000 cash bail yesterday after he was charged with one count of aggravated rape. The woman he allegedly raped was unconscious in a men’s bathroom at the Felt nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts. The incident allegedly took place on the night…
Tim Masters, who was convicted in the 1999 of murdering Peggy Hettrick, was set free today. Masters had been serving a lifelong prison term for her in 1987 that happened when he was just 15-years-old. Her mutilated body was found in a field near Fort Collins, Colorado close to Masters’s…
New England Patriots Football Player Randy Moss says he did not commit battery against the 35-year-old woman who has filed a temporary restraining order against him. Rachelle Washington is accusing Moss, who she says she had an intimate relationship with, of battery, causing her serious injury, and denying her medical…
O.J. Simpson’s bail in a Las Vegas casino robbery case was doubled to $250,000 after the judge found out that the former football great never paid a bail bondsman when he was first released. Clark County District Court Judge Jackie Glass says that Simpson, 60, has to issue 15% of…
The criminal defense team for Officer Michael T. Jones, the Boston Police Department veteran, says that his client was not taking his medication and was drunk when he used his BPD-issued weapon to hold up a gas station in Roslindale, Massachusetts. Officer Jones, 44, was arraigned on armed robbery charges…
Olympic athlete Marion Jones, 31, will serve six months in prison for lying to an investigator about her steroid use and her involvement in a check-fraud scheme. Jones must also complete 400 hours of community service while serving two years probation. The world champion athlete opted for a plea agreement…
Police in Massachusetts arrested Keith L. Sampson, a dance instructor who lives in South Easton on Saturday. He is charged with raping a 15-year-old student at his home. The girl was with Sampson when police arrested him. Police found the two of them after the teenager sent a text message…
The city of Boston is reporting a lower crime rate for 2007 than in 2006. The Boston Police Department offers the following statistics comparing the number of crimes that occurred from January 1 – December 23, 2007: Vehicle theft and attempted vehicle theft: 34,008 in 2006; 354 in 2007. Larceny…