A Haverhill man and his girlfriend were charged with selling cocaine at a cosmetic counter in the Haverhill Walgreens located at 301 Main Street. Police were alerted by an informant that Enery Fernandez, a store employee was selling cocaine during her work shift. After receiving this information police arranged a controlled…
The Lowell Sun reported that a forty two year old Lowell man withdrew $62,000.00 from his bank account, placed it in a duffel bag and went out to get drunk. After accomplishing his goal he decided to solicit a prostitute. He succeeded in finding Jessica Garcia, 30 of Aiken Street…
The defendant was charged and convicted by a Suffolk Superior Court jury of possession of a firearm in violation of G.L. c. 269 sec. 10(a). On appeal he claimed that there lacked sufficient evidence to sustain the conviction. The Massachusetts Appeals Court agreed and reversed the conviction. The Supreme Judicial…
A grand jury sitting in Middlesex County returned indictments against a fifty-seven year old Everett man charging him with three counts of rape of a child and four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of fourteen. If convicted the man faces a possible sentence…
The Boston Herald reported that on August 7, 2008 Middlesex County register of probate John Buonomo was arrested and charged with eighteen counts of breaking and entering into a depository, eight counts of larceny under $250.00 and eight counts of theft of public property. An investigation started in June after…
Charges of assault and battery issued against prize fighter Micky Ward after a clerk’s hearing held in the Lowell District Court. The victim, Ward’s wife’s stepfather alleged that on May 28, 2008 during a confrontation Ward punched him in the face. The alleged victim Kevin Nolette claims to have sustained…
On August 5, 2008 police arrested two Beverly men identified as suspects in an early morning robbery. The victims claimed that as they were walking in downtown Beverly they were approached by a group of four men. One of the men brandished a knife and held it to one of…
In Giles v. California, slip opinion June 25, 2008 the United States Supreme Court examined at the doctrine of forfeiture by wrondoing in the context of its decision in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004). Giles was convicted for the 1992 shooting and killing his girlfriend. At trial, prosecutors…
A Lowell, Massachusetts woman went to speak to her boyfriend after learning that he had been cheating on her. During the confrontation the woman rammed his car with her car and clawed at his chest. The victim restrained the woman until police arrived. When the officers took over the woman…
In Commonwealth v. Parreira, slip opinion August 4, 2008 the Massachusetts Appeals Court clarified joint venture and its application to sex crimes. In Parreira, the defendant and another met up with two fifteen year old girls and agreed to get together the next day. The girls wanted the older boys…