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28 People Arrested In Brockton Following Drug Dealing Investigation Targeting Street Level Dealers

Law enforcement officials at the state, federal and local levels arrested twenty eight people in the Brockton area yesterday following an investigation targeting low to mid-level drug dealers selling Cocaine and Crack Cocaine. The ages of the defendants ranges from nineteen to forty nine years old and includes women, men…

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OxyCodone Trafficking Charges Issue Out Of Lynn Court, Man, 23 Held On High Bail

Can you imagine being only twenty three years old, being held in a jail on seventy five thousand dollars and facing a minimum mandatory fifteen year state prison sentence. That is exactly the predicament Roger Jones of Manchester, New Hampshire is in right now. According to an article in today’s…

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Lawrence Superior Court Judges Reduces Bail For Woman Charged With Operating Under the Influence Of Alcohol, Motor Vehicle Homicide And Negligent Operation Of A Motor Vehicle

Shayna Fernandez from Lawrence Massachusetts is charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, motor vehicle homicide and negligent operation of a motor vehicle following a car crash on June 11th that killed two people. According to The Lawrence Eagle Tribune, over the objection of the…

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Framingham Man, 55, Charged Facing Child Pornography Charges In Woburn Superior Court

Yesterday a Framingham, Massachusetts man was arraigned in the Middlesex County Superior Court after having been charged with Possession of Child Pornography and Distribution of Child Pornography. The defendant, Thomas Hannover was released on his own recognizance. The Metrowest Daily News article did not provide details of the allegations stating…

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Prostitute Pleads Guilty At Arraignment In Framingham, Pimp Denies Claim He Derived Money From Prostitute

According to at least one person Kimberly Pietrini and Hassan Wilkes were on vacation and staying at a Framingham, Massachusetts motel. Why Wilkes was at a Dunkin Donuts near the motel Pietrini met with a man who responded to her backpage.com advertisement. The man met Pietrini at the motel. He…

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Lengthy Massachusetts Drug Trafficking Investigation Culminates With Arrests Of Two Lawrence Men, Methuen Man

Over the course of a month-long drug investigation undercover state police officers purchased heroin on four occasions from Lawrence, Massachusetts resident Jonathan Castro. The buys occurred on two separate days in May and two in June, the latest being this past Tuesday. It is alleged that during the last transaction…

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Amesbury Man, Suspect In Stabbing, Arraigned On Felony Charges In The Newburyport District Court

Christopher Nikas is being held following an arrest for his involvement in a stabbing incident. Authorities allege that on June 5, 2011 a stabbing occurred across from the public library in Newburyport. The person accused of doing the stabbing is Joseph Poaletta who was recently arrested for this case in…

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Trial Of Level 3 Massachusetts Sex Offender Begins, First In Massachusetts Under Jessica’s Law

Brian Racine is forty six years old. He is registered under Massachusetts law as a level three Sex Offender. He is now in the fight of his life, fighting allegations that he committed Indecent Assault and Battery on a Child Under the Age of 14, a Second or Subsequent Offense…

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67 Year Old Haverhill Man Indicted For Rape Of A Child To Be Arraigned In Salem Superior Court

If today’s Lawrence Eagle Tribune story is true sixty seven year old Robert Levesque appears to be in a great deal of trouble. The Haverhill native is being charged with Rape of A Child and has been indicted by an Essex County Grand Jury. Levesque’s case will move from Haverhill…

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North Andover Massachusetts Man Faces Drug Charges Including Trafficking In Heroin and Trafficking In Oxycodone

Thirty-two year old Guarionex Pratts is charged with trafficking over 500 grams of heroin and trafficking over 28 grams of oxycodone. The Lawrence Eagle Tribune reports that a tip to the Drug Enforcement Administration Tipline led to the search of Pratts North Andover apartment located at 26 Royal Crest Drive…

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