A convenience-store burglar was out cold when cops found him in the drop ceiling of a North Andover mini-mart in the morning, police said. Investigators say they’re trying to figure out how Justin Roeger, 26, of North Andover, ended up unconscious and among the rafters of the Richdale Convenience Store,…
We began the week discussing Massachusetts child pornograpghy prosections. Today, we continue the subject matter from another perspective. The perspective is from after the conviction comes. Yesterday, the Commonwealth’s highest court debated whether criminal defendants convicted of child pornography should be tracked by GPS while on probation – or if…
At approximately 4:00 am on Thursday, January 23rd, Miami police arrested Justin Bieber for driving under the influence, drag racing, resisting arrest, and driving with a suspended license. The now-infamous ‘Baby’ singer admitted that he had taken prescription drugs, smoked marijuana and consumed alcohol prior to getting behind the wheel…
This Boston criminal lawyer will tell you that this type of crime is one of the most widening areas of danger for our youth today. Another one is in the area of “self-defense” but we will get to that another day. It involves the possession and dissemination of child pornography…by…
Alex Bilodeau, 26, of Revere (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) has branded himself as yet another gentleman who has misunderstood the rules of causing a Massachusetts drug investigation…and then making it even more serious. The Defendant is said to have led the police on a foot chase in Davis Square to the…
On January 28, 2014 at about 3:15PM on Route 95 South, near Burlington, MA, a mattress flew off of the roof of a truck, ultimately causing the death of a 56 year old woman from Framingham, MA. While it is far too early to speculate about what happened and why,…
Two things about which I have warned you many times have come into play in Lynn. 18-year-old Jacquan McKenzie (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) is facing the results right now. On January 12, the Defendant was observed fleeing from the area of a homicide. The homicide was the shooting death of 29-year-old…
When we left off on what was supposed to be a three-part posting on the nightmare that is Massachusetts’ Department of Children and Families (“DCF”), I was intending to wrap it up with a bit of a summation. As you may have noticed, time has passed since the last posting.…
We began this discussion about the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (“DCF”) focussing on its abysmal handling of the Oliver family. This is the matter in which 5-year-old Jeremiah Oliver, under DCF’s watch, vanished long before DCF even had a spark of recognition that something was wrong despite the…
By now, you have no doubt heard of the continuing saga of Jeremiah Oliver. He is the 5-year-old boy from Fitchburg who has been discovered missing. The criminal investigations into the child continue to date. Recently, the Department of Children and Families (“DCF”) has been ridiculed because of its handling…