According to the Newburyport News Cody Harkness of Amesbury, Massachusetts is being charged with Unarmed Burglary, Home Invasion, Malicious Destruction to Property Valued at More Than $250 and Breaking and Entering. The victim is a downstairs neighbor who was sleeping when Harkness broke into her home. Apparently the defendant opened…
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Pair From East Bridgewater Charged With Trafficking OxyCodone After Home Is Searched
Mark Balboni and Chelsea McKay were arrested last night and are facing charges this morning in the Brockton District Court. The Brockton Enterprise reports that after months of investigating police officers from East Bridgewater, West Bridgewater and Whitman Searched a home at 2 Natalie Drive. During the Search officers found…
Couple From Raynham, Bridgewater Charged With Heroin Trafficking
According to the Brockton Enterprise police in Raynham, Massachusetts have found some success in an year long investigation. They just arrested Peter Cardin of Raynham and Ainsley Jennifer Long of Bridgewater, Masschusetts. Both have been charged with Trafficking Heroin. On December 1, 2010 officers executed a search warrant at Cardin’s…
Peabody Man Indicted For Carjacking By Essex County Grand Jury
The Lynn Item reports that Todd Ciepiela of Peabody, Massachusetts has been indicted by an Essex County Grand Jury for Carjacking stemming from a September incident. In the morning hours of September 26th a fifty six year old woman went to a local 7-11 store. As she went to get…
Teenagers Arrested In Framingham, Charged With Possession With Intent To Distribute Marijuana
Elizabeth Roger of Ashland, Massachusetts and Elizabeth Powers of Worcester, Massachusetts were arrested in the early morning hours after being pulled over for a minor Motor Vehicle Violation. Specifically it is alleged that Powers ran a stop sign. During the stop officers located just over one ounce of marijuana. The…
Lowell, Wilmington Men Caught In Drug Deal In Westford
Darrell O’Malley of Wilmington, Massachusetts and Steven Santella of Lowell, Massachusetts have been charged with Drug Crimes violations after police saw O’Malley provide Santella with Heroin in an affluent Westford, Massachusetts neighborhood. According to a report in the Lowell Sun the act occurred at about 10:30 in the morning in…
Ashland Massachusetts Man Arrested On Drug Charges After Cops Find Him Near Car With Drugs In Plain View
Edwin Pagan is from Ashland, Massachusetts. Around 3:30 in the morning yesterday someone reported seeing a man “acting suspiciously” near the Happy Swallow. The police responded and found Pagan lurking in the area. The officers also learned that Pagan had been in a car parked nearby. They went to investigate.…
Traffic Stop In Brockton Leads To Heroin Trafficking And School Zone Charges
According to a report in the Brockton Enterprise, police yesterday arrested Ivon Almeida and charged him with Trafficking Heroin in Excess of Twenty Eight Grams and a School Zone Violation. Police claim that Almeida was the passenger a car driven by Steven Mendes that committed certain traffic violations. After the…
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Affirms Trial Judge’s Suppression Of Evidence Unlawfully Seized
Earlier today the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court issued its opinion in Commonwealth v. Carr.pdf affirming the trial judge’s suppression of evidence seized unlawfully. The facts of the case are as follows. On Valentine’s Day, 2007 a Boston College police sergeant received a call from a residential director (RD) of a…
Waltham Taxicab Driver Charged With Kidnapping In Quincy
Osei Kwame of Waltham, Massachusetts has been charged with Kidnapping in the Quincy District Court. According to reports Kwame picked up a couple in Boston just before 2:00 a.m. The pair wanted to go to Billings Street in Quincy. They ended up on Billings Road instead. One of the passengers…