Earlier today the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reversed a first degree murder conviction in the case of Commonwealth v. Santos. Santos had been convicted on a felony murder theory. The Court found the following facts: On July 26, 2005 shortly after 5:30 in the evening the victim was robbed and…
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Haverhill Massachusetts Man Charged With Carrying a Firearm, Assault and Battery Arrested, Charged With Crimes in Lawrence and Haverhill
Haverhill, Massachusetts Jose Reyes was sought pursuant to a warrant for Carrying a Firearm, Possession of a Firearm, Possession of Ammunition and Armed Assault with the Intent to Murder. All of these charges against the twenty one year old are pending in the Lawrence, Massachusetts District Court. There is also…
Framingham Massachusetts Police Arrest Three for Cocaine Trafficking After Search of Car Yields Over 500 Grams of Cocaine
This past Monday night Framingham, Massachusetts police were on patrol on Waverly Street when they noticed a Honda with “extremely dark” tinted windows. This observation prompted the officers to pull the car over and contact its occupants, Christian Joel Mercado Vega, Fe Sanchez and Wilfredo Ortiz. All of the defendants…
Wareham Massachusetts Man Caught With 530 Bags of Heroin Now Facing Heroin Trafficking Charges
Just hours ago the Wareham Week reported that Jonathan Rose, a twenty year old Bourne, Massachusetts resident was arrested and charged with Trafficking Heroin and Conspiracy. According to the report, shortly after ten o’clock at night officers patrolling Route 195 saw the car being operated by Rose committing numerous Massachusetts…
Norwood Massachusetts Police Use Facebook to Publish Arrests for Possession With Intent to Distribute Heroin, Heroin Possession, Related Massachusetts Drug Charges
The Norwood, Massachusetts police have a Facebook page. It is young, having been launched in late June of this year. Yet already some of its major stories including arrests for Massachusetts Criminal Charges are being posted to the page and hitting other media outlets in the area. Its Friday post…
Danvers Father Receives Eighteen Months Probation For Hitting His Four Year Old Son
The Lawrence Eagle Tribune reported that Daniel Linnell III of Danvers will spend the next eighteen months on probation for hitting his son in a movie theatre last August. After the manager received complaints, the defendant was arrested at the Danvers theatre and charged with assault and battery. According to…
Methuen Massachusetts Police Officer Charged With Assault and Battery, Felony Malicious Destruction to Property After Salisbury Barroom Fight
This past weekend a fight erupted at the Surfside 5, a bar in Salisbury, Massachusetts. According to a report in the Lawrence Eagle Tribune a Methuen, Massachusetts police officer, Shawn Tardif and his wife were at the bar with friends. Also at the bar was a group of women celebrating…
Massachusetts Police Arrest Revere Man and Woman, Charged Them With Trafficking Oxycontin, Cocaine, Cultivating Marijuana and Conspiracy
Massachusetts State Police conducted an investigation into drug activities at 193 Campbell Avenue in Revere during the month of July. They had information that Luz Ramirez and Alexander Uran, occupants of that address had been selling drugs. A Search Warrant was granted permitting police to search the home. Yesterday afternoon…
More Heroin Arrests Made in Lawrence Massachusetts Following Police Surveillance Operation, Charges of Possession, Possession With Intent and Distribution of Heroin Filed
Two days ago Lawrence, Massachusetts police in an unmarked cruiser saw an Infinity driving through Prospect Hill. Inside they saw a man and a woman. A second car containing four people met up with the Infinity, pulling alongside of it in a manner where the drivers of each vehicle could…
37 Year Old Framingham Massachusetts Man Charged With Human Trafficking, Deriving Support From a Prostitute in Westborough District Court
Anthony Maness is being held on fifty thousand dollars cash bail after being arraigned in the Westborough District Court on charges of Deriving Support from a Prostitute and Trafficking Persons for Human Servitude. The thirty seven year old Framingham, Massachusetts man is alleged to have forced a couple of women…