The Lawrence Eagle Tribune reports that the police arrested four Lawrence teenagers and charged them with a number of property offenses after the stolen car they were driving was located using a LoJack tracking device. After finding the stolen car, the police determined that the local youths stole the car,…
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…
A Beverly, Massachusetts man pleaded guilty to his 5fh drunk driving charge and will spend the next three to three and one half years in state prison. Gary Lee was first convicted of OUI in Massachusetts back in 1975. He picked up his second DUI in 1982 in Alaska. Two…
Assistant United States Attorney Suzanne Sullivan’s reputation took a severe blow last week when Jonathan Saltzman from the Boston Globe reported that Chief District Court Judge Mark L. Wolf threatened sanctions for Sullivan’s failure to provide exculpatory evidence to defense counsel. According to the article, the veteran prosecutor failed to disclose that…
This past Saturday, armed with a search warrant Quincy police officers went to search the third floor apartment at 40 Bradford Street in Quincy. One of the defendants, Alexander Fainer pulled up in his car just as the search was about to commence. He gave the officers the key to…
On New Years’ Eve a Framingham woman contacted the police to report that her former boyfriend, Josue Gonzalez telephonically threatened her and her and her three children. Specifically, he told her that if she did not give him money he would burn her house down. A restraining order was in existence at that time. …
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 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…
A Georgetown Police Officer was charged with domestic assault and battery and intimidation of a witness in the Haverhill District Court last week. The defendant is Garrett Barber of Groveland, Massachusetts. Barber spent thirteen years as a reserve officer before becoming a full-time policeman one year ago. As a condition…
Bail in the amount of $25,000 was set for a former Boston Police Officer accused of unlawful possession of a firearm. At 1:30 a.m. on January 4th of this year Boston Police reponded to a Dorchester bar after a 911 caller claimed to have overheard the defendant stating that he…