This past Monday night Malden, Massachusetts police stopped a car that had been reported stolen in Brockton. After removing a passenger from the car the driver struck two police officers with his vehicle and pinned another officer against a parked vehicle. Two suspects, James Calo of Malden and Mark Dwyer…
Just the other day a joint drug task force executed a search warrant at 43 Union Street in Southbridge, Massachusetts. Present at the time were Santos Sanchez and Yasmin Torres. Sanchez had outstanding federal warrants in other jurisdictions. During the execution of the search warrant law enforcement personnel found twenty…
A Home Invasion that took place in Westford, Massachusetts has resulted in the issuance of criminal charges against three Massachusetts men. According to reports the victims were supposedly drug dealers who were targeted due to their access to weapons and money associated with drug dealing activities. It is alleged that…
Last week after receiving complaints about “suspicious activity” Methuen, Massachusetts police began a surveillance in the area of Wheeler Street and Lowell Street. Officers observed a couple of cars arrive and “engage in some sort of transaction”. Believing that they had just witnessed a drug deal the police moved in…
Shortly after 12:00 a.m. last Wednesday morning Gabriel Diaz was arrested by the Haverhill, Massachusetts Police Drug Unit. An informant told them that a van would be driving in the High Street area and that it would contain drugs. Using this information the police made the stop of the vehicle.…
On July 8, 2009 Cambridge, Massachusetts Police arrested Manuel Pimentel. He was charged with trafficking cocaine and a school zone violation. According to reports Pimentel was caught in a surveillance effort that originated after complaints for drug activity were reported in a specific part of Cambridge. Here is what happened.…
Dimitrios Paicopoulos is twenty seven years old. He is from Newton, Massachusetts. Just last week Mr. Paicopoulos found himself in some trouble. A narcotics task force arrested him at his home. They conducted a search of his home, presumably pursuant to a search warrant. They found over ten thousand dollars…
Last year, on June 28, 2008 Boston, Massachusetts resident Michael Wilder was at a party in Ashland, Massachusetts. The alleged victim was there at the same time. Apparently she was not feeling well and went outside. It is at that time that the woman claims that Wilder assaulted her. The…
In Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. – (June 25, 2009), the United States Supreme Court held that in a prosecution for a drug offense the introduction of certificates of analysis from Massachusetts drug crime laboratories violated a defendant’s constitutional right to confront witnesses against him at a trial. The Supreme…
Just the other day Boston, Massachusetts police arrested Amando Avila, a thirty four man from Newton, Massachusetts. The charges, trafficking more than two hundred grams of heroin. It is alleged that Avila tried to sell two kilograms of pure heroin to an undercover police officer. According to reports Avila’s overall…