According to the Somerville Journal, Last week Vincent Primo and his girlfriend, Kim Szathmary, both of Medford were indicted by a Middlesex County Grand Jury for robbery and attempted robbery in Cambridge and Somerville. In November and December of 2008 there were 7 incidents of attempted robbery and robbery in…
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Lynn Man Charged With Gun Possession After House Party Becomes Unruly
Steven Mai and William Blundell are getting arraigned in the Lynn District Court today stemming from their involvement in criminal activity in Lynn on Saturday night. Apparently there was a party attended by fifty to sixty people, all of whom were identified as being Crip gang members or associates. The…
Worcester Man With 81 Firearms Charged With Possession Of Machine Gun
Even though Paul Mateiko has a license to carry firearms he does not have the right to possess a machine gun. Worcester Police actually found multiple machine guns when they searched Mateiko’s home Saturday night. These weapons along with 79 other firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition and explosive devices…
Malden Man Charged With Carjacking, Assorted Criminal Offenses
At 2:00 this morning in Somerville, 32 year old Marcel Laurol of Malden man was shot by a 25 year old man from Brockton. Laurol then hijacked a taxicab and drove it into his attacker. Both of these guys are going to need good defense lawyers. According to the BostonChannel…
Barnstable Men Charged With Trafficking Oxycodone, Related Drug Offenses
On January 23, 2009 Barnstable and Yarmoutth police along with a Brockton K-9 officer executed a search warrant at 55 Nautical Way, the home of Kenneth and Denzel Chisholm. In the course of doing so officers located and seized 2,000 oxycodone pills valued at $60,000 a couple of guns and…
Massachusetts Man Convicted Of Being Felon In Possession Of Firearm
This past Wednesday, Ricardo Calvo of Worcester was sentenced to fifteen years in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm. The defense was looking for a seventy seven month prison sentence based on his lawyer’s representation that Calvo had a history of substance abuse, physical abuse…
Law Student Arrested For Threatening Boston Cop, Resisting Arrest
The Harvard Crimson reported today that third year Harvard Law student Charles Simpkins was arrested and charged with disorderly conducting and resisting arrest. According to the article, on January 24, 2009 Simpkins left a bar drunk and entered a parked Boston Police cruiser. He told the officers to give him…
Lawrence, Massachusetts Man Charged With Domestic Assault And Battery, Related Crimes
Lawrence, Massachusetts police responded to an apartment on South Broadway Thursday night in response to a domestic assault and battery 911 call. During the call police were able to hear the couple arguing. When they arrived they found the defendant and his girlfriend both of whom denied making the call…
Three Massachusetts Men Charged With Federal Hate Crimes
Three Springfield, Massachusetts men were charged in Federal Court with a civil rights violation stemming from an arson purportedly committed on November 5, 2008. Authorities stated the men poured gasoline inside and outside the church and set fire to the structure “because it was a black church”. The act took…
Stabbing Suspect Arraigned In Suffolk Superior Court
In 2005 four men were stabbed in the Wonderland parking lot in Revere. The defendant Ervin Memushaj fled Massachusetts. The FBI was enlisted and a search led them to Chicago where Memushaj was located and arrested. This past Friday the defendant was returned to Massachusetts, arraigned and held on $250,000…