Several weeks ago DEA and Andover, Massachusetts police received information from a source that Jay Keough and Ryan Emmet were cooking up methamphetamine at Keough’s parents’ home on Lowell Street in Andover. Apparently Keough and Emmett had been buying cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine from drug stores in the Merrimack Valley…
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Former Massachusetts Cop Charged With Open And Gross Lewdness, Assault And Battery
On January 18, 2009, while at a Metallica concert Brewster, Massachusetts police officer Joseph Houston was throw out of the Boston Garden after urinating on another concertgoer. Houston then tried to get back into the concert by flashing his police badge. According to earlier reports Houston was told that if…
Dracut Massachusetts Man Held Without Bail After Stabbing Wife
The Lowell Sun reported that a forty one year old Dracut, Massachusetts man has been charged with assault with intent to commit murder, assault and battery, and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon after he supposedly stabbed his wife nine times with a large butcher knife in…
Tyngsboro Restaurant Owner Facing Charges of Kindnapping and Assaut and Battery Ordered Held Without Bail In Lowell Massachusetts District Court
According to The Lowell Sun, Eric Sideri, owner of Angela’s Coal Fired Pizza in Tyngsboro Massachusetts, is being held without bail after his arraignment in Lowell District Court. Sideri is charged with kidnapping and beating up a manager, Oliveira, whom he suspected stole $20,000 from the business. According to reports,…
Massachusetts Man Beats Employee With Bat, Guns Over Alleged Theft Of $20,000
Eric Sideri owns Angela’s Coal Fired Pizza in Tyngsboro, Massachusetts. On Saturday night he and his manager Al Guevara pistol whipped and beat an employee Sideri believed stole twenty thousand dollars from the business. According to reports Sideri left the business sometime Saturday night seemingly in a bad mood. Guevara,…
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Holds That Conditions Of Probation Must Be Reasonably Related To Offense
In Commonwealth v.Gomes the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that a probationary condition requiring that the defendant submit to random testing relative to the use of drugs and alcohol was improper. On appeal, the defendant challenged the probationary condition that he submit to random drug and alcohol testing. He did…
Traffic Stop Results In Gun, Drug, OUI Charges In Newburyport District Court
Amesbury, Massachusetts police had their work cut out for them early Saturday morning when they stopped a 2002 Pontiac sedan operating erratically on Route 110. When Officer David Noyes activated his lights the car’s four occupants started behaving strangely. When he contacted the driver he noticed the smell of alcohol…
Peabody, Massachusetts Man Receives 6 Month Sentence For Failing To Register As Sex Offender
Brian Sewall is 58 years old and in 1992 he was convicted of sexually assaulting two boys. He was living on Main Street in Peabody, Massachusetts in September. Peabody and Salem police learned of his whereabouts in September and began looking for him after hearing that he was frequently observed…
Massachusetts SJC Finds Affidavit Insufficient For Issuance Of Search Warrant
In a 4-2 decision the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court affirmed a Superior Court judge’s decision to suppress a search made pursuant to a warrant. As a backdrop, the defendant in this case filed a motion to suppress cocaine, marijuana and drug related paraphernalia seized in his home during the execution…
Massachusetts Woman Charged In Domestic Violence Incident
Stephanie Lighten and Jennifer Lighten are married. They live in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Last Tuesday in the late afternoon police responded to a call at the couple’s home. Jennifer Lighten told police that her wife Stephanie tried to forcibly inseminate her with a turkey baster and her brother’s semen. According to…