According to a report on Boston.com, Andrew Curda of Peabody, Massachusetts has been arrested in connection with Drug Trafficking activity in Massachusetts. It is alleged that Curda sold cocaine to an undercover law enforcement officer on three occasions. Curda is being charged with Trafficking Cocaine, a School Zone Violation and…
Criminal jury trials in Massachusetts and for that matter everywhere are not always at exciting as the avid follower of lawyer televisions programs might believe. There can be times where a jury trial is just downright boring. Technical evidence such as DNA or medical testimony can send the average person…
On January 21, 2011 Geison Ferraras of Lawrence, Massachusetts was at his home, a third floor apartment on South Broadway. Police executed a Search Warrant targeting someone else in the building. They found drugs and guns on the second floor. However, during the course of the search they also came…
Yesterday around 5:30 p.m. Lawrence, Massachusetts police officers responded to a call complaining about people sitting in a car using drugs. Officers investigating the call arrived to find four people sitting in a parked car in a restaurant parking lot. The article reporting this incident suggests that all four were…
Christopher Rossi was arrested this past weekend. He has been charged with Indecent Assault and Battery, Child Enticement and Rape. Yesterday he was arraigned in the Framingham District Court and held on twenty five thousand dollars cash bail. The article reporting this store provided little in the way of detail…
According to reports in the Lowell Sun and Lawrence Eagle Tribune, on April 20, 2011 police received a call about a road rage incident on Route 93. They arrived to find Dennis Keohane with six stab wounds. Apparently Keohane and the defendant Breslin Reyes of Lawrence, Massachusetts had an exchange…
Acting on a tip police officers from Beverly, Massachusetts started investigating whether a local woman was providing Sex For a Fee. The woman ran an ad in backpage.com. The ad suggested certain services were available for certain prices. An undercover detective posing as a customer responded to the ad. He…
Just yesterday the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court decided the case of Commonwealth v. Benjamin Cruz wherein after the defendant prevailed on a Motion to Suppress an illegal Search and Seizure the district attorney appealed to the state’s highest court. The Court held that the mere odor of burnt marijuana without…
This past Friday evening Salem, Massachusetts police officers saw what looked to them like a drug transaction. The suspect, Aquiles Sanchez took off in his car leading officers on a chase. He then fled on foot. However, sixty two year old John Carr saw the cruiser lights and knew something…
After four days of deliberations a Northern California jury rendered its verdict in the Barry Bonds perjury/obstruction of justice case. The three perjury charges stemmed from allegations that Bonds made false statements while under oath before a federal grand jury in 2003. The jury was unable to return verdicts on…