Authorities in Massachusetts are still looking for the person that murdered Danielle Grady, the Roxbury woman that was shot to death outside an apartment building on Saturday on Dunkeld Street in Dorchester. Earlier news reports had speculated that she was gunned down because she had witnessed an earlier murder, but…
A South Boston man who was arrested last month for buying OxyContin apparently worked for the city driving tow trucks for close to three years even though he didn’t have a driver’s license. William E. Morin Jr’s driver’s license had been suspended from March 2000 until November 2003. He was…
A federal district judge has ordered the federal government to pay $101.8 million for the framing of four men for a 1965 gangland murder that they did not commit. Two of the men who were wrongfully convicted, Louis Greco and Henry Tameleo, died while in prison. The other two men,…
A Roxbury man was acquitted on Monday in the 1991 murders of his girlfriend and her friend. Reggie Knight was acquitted by a Suffolk Superior Court jury for the stabbing deaths of Michelle Paul, 24, and Henry Cowart, 50. The murders took place outside a housing development in Mission Hill…
Drug informant Stephen G. Kalil, the Dorchester man whose help led to the arrests of a retired Massachusetts trooper, a state trooper, and two others for collecting drug debts and selling OxyContin, has been arrested. He was brought into federal court last week on charges that he sold drugs-even while…
A new probe shows that the Massachusetts State Police Crime Laboratory failed to analyze evidence samples from more than 16,000 crimes that occurred in the state. Unexamined evidence included evidence from about 1,000 homicides and other deaths, as well as from over 6,500 sexual assault cases. The lab has yet…
Yesterday, US marshals, Boston police, and Quincy police recaptured Thomas A. Shay, the fugitive bomber who served 10 years in prison for the 1991 Roslindale bombing that killed one Boston cop and injured another. Shay was discovered yesterday at his mother’s home in Quincy where he was taking a nap.…
Prosecutors in Massachusetts have dropped the rape charge against Derrick Patrick, a former youth counselor. Patrick, 36, was accused of sexually assaulting a teenager at the Ella J. Baker House, a troubled youth center where he worked in Boston’s Dorchester area. The rape charge was dropped after prosecutors carefully reviewed…
The man that Boston police have dubbed the Bonbon Bandit allegedly robbed another store on Thursday. In this attempt, the suspect, who is blamed for at least 18 robberies at upscale clothing, food, and decorating stores at the South End and in downtown Boston, robbed a five-and-dime store on Albany…
In New Bedford, Massachusetts, Brian James, 34, is being held without bail for allegedly biting off the ear and lip of a 3-year-old girl. The child is the daughter of his girlfriend, Jessica Silveria, 26, who is also being held without bail. Arrest warrants had been issued for the couple.…