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Fruitlands Museum Files Complaint In Worcester, Massachusetts, Claiming A Family Of Bad Apples Embezzled Over One Million Dollars

Posted on September 22, 2008
Did you have a nice weekend? A few Museum Patrons in Hollis, New Hampshire didn?t. According to Friday?s news, a lawsuit has been filed against in Worcester Superior Court that is likely only the tip of the legal iceberg of their problems. Fruitlands Museum has filed a lawsuit against former chief operating officer Peggy Kempton and her children for allegedly embezzling more than $1 million during the past eight years...

Threats Made At A Massachusetts College Result In Investigation And Arrest

Posted on September 19, 2008
Last February, it would appear that the political scene at Bridgewater State College got a bit heated. Bomb and death threats began being posted around campus. On September 2nd, 2008, as the country?s major parties were celebrating their conventions, a former Parliamentarian was being arrested for her alternative methods of announcing her platform...

Haverhill, Massachusetts, Police Officers Get Lucky At Prostitution Bust And Turn To Drug War

Posted on September 18, 2008
Last night, all major crimes of the area having apparently been prevented or solved, Haverhill police officers set their sights on their admittedly decreasing prostitution concern. It was said to be a lucky break in their war against drugs. They ended up arresting a ?major cocaine dealer? who had a drug sales ledger containing the names of "prominent'' Haverhill residents...

Arrest Warrant Inspires Massachusetts Driver To Make As Many Mistakes As Possible During Traffic Stop

Posted on September 17, 2008
Some people have not been taking this blog to heart and so apparently did not believe that it was not good to take a bad situation with law enforcement and make it worse. Now, 19-year-old Falmouth resident, Tevis Yarmala, faces multiple charges after he allegedly struck and tried to stab a Falmouth police officer in the face with a stick during a traffic stop last week...

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14-Year-Old Massachusetts Teen is Convicted of Setting Nine Nine-Alarm Fire at Holyoke Paper Mill

Posted on September 16, 2008
In Holyoke, a 14-year-old boy was convicted of starting the 9-alarm fire that burned down the Parsons Paper Mill building earlier this summer. The teenager will be placed in state care until he turns 18. This is the maximum sentence allowed for juveniles in Massachusetts...

To The South Of Boston, A Trial For Rape May Be The Accused?s Least Concern Given DNA match To Prostitute's Murder

Posted on September 16, 2008
In Worcester Superior Court, testimony is scheduled to begin today in the trial of a Berlin man charged with raping and trying to suffocate a woman last year in a West Boylston motel. The defendant, Alex F. Scesny, 38, has also been identified by law enforcement as a ?person of interest? in the unsolved slayings of several area prostitutes...

Springfield Massachusetts Ambulance Patient Changes Seats In Motor Vehicle And Role In Criminal Justice System

Posted on September 15, 2008
Have you ever heard the saying ?the lunatics are running the asylum?? We begin the week with a story about an interesting twist on it. It was last night. Sunday night. All around the Commonwealth, people were preparing for a new week of work and school...

Criminal Justice Odds Being Beat In New Bedford, MA

Posted on September 12, 2008
In New Bedford, Massachusetts, what appears to be a man walking with a figurative ?Please Lock Me Up Forever? sign on his back is beating incredible odds. The man, Allen Thurston, 36, is a convicted level 3 sex offender. After he allegedly assaulted his girlfriend, he was arraigned yesterday in New Bedford District Court on an assault and battery charge...

Drug Busts Make This A Bad Week For Marihuana and Heroin Trade South and West Of Boston

Posted on September 11, 2008
It has been a bad week so far for Massachusetts drug conspiracies. First, members of a joint Anti-Crime Task force confiscated 500 pounds of marijuana and more than $180,000 in cash from a weekend drug bust in Swansea, Massachusetts. The marijuana alone has a street value of more than $600,000...

MASSACHUSSETTS COURT STAFF FACE WHITE COLLAR ACCUSATIONS

Posted on September 10, 2008
According to this week?s Massachusetts Lawyer?s Weekly, the Commonwealth is having a tough time with certain ?irregularities? regarding Probate Court staff. A few weeks ago, Middlesex County?s Register of Probate was arrested for allegedly stealing cash from government copying machines...

Lynn Man Enters Fray And Faces Attempted Murder Charges

Posted on September 09, 2008
According to today?s Lynn Item, Carmet Cruthird of Lynn was arraigned Friday on attempted murder charges after he allegedly stabbed a man outside a Liberty Street apartment building the day before. However, the circumstances appear a bit sketchy and are likely to not be resolved until the time of trial?which usually takes about a year...

Lowell, Massachusetts Man Pleads Guilty to Assaulting His Baby

Posted on September 08, 2008
In Massachusetts, a Lowell father that pleaded guilty to assaulting his own son will serve 18-months in a house of correction and 5 years probation. Ty Chan entered his plea in Lowell Superior Court for assault and battery on a child causing serious bodily injury...

A Salem, Massachusetts, A Teenage Life Is Forever Altered By Drug Charges

Posted on September 08, 2008
This week, we start our daily blog with an eye toward the north shore, where, according to the Salem News, last fall, Christopher Al-Nabulsi was a star at Salem High School. At 17, he was captain of the football and lacrosse teams, played basketball and was a peer mentor...

Boston Area Duo Said To Defraud Dunkin?

Posted on September 05, 2008
The Brookline Tab has reported that former Brookline resident Carolyn Kravetz has been indicted in federal court for acts of mail fraud and tax fraud. Her co-defendant, Boris Levitin, hailing from Brighton, merely faces charges of mail fraud. Federal prosecutors claim that a Ms...

North Of Boston, An Alleged Teenage Crimewave Faces Actual Jail

Posted on September 04, 2008
Yesterday?s Salem Daily News told the tale of Angelo Diiorio, age 18. The young man, had been ordered by the court to confine himself to his home while awaiting trial on charges of vehicular homicide and child rape. In fact, he was even ordered to wear an ankle bracelet...

Two Massachusetts College Students Could Face Misdemeanor Charge for Videotaping Womens? Sexual Encounter

Posted on June 13, 2008
Court officials in Boston say that they are waiting for the results of a Wentworth Institute of Technology investigation to determine whether to file criminal charges against two of its students, who are accused of videotaping two women having a sexual encounter in a nearby Massachusetts College of Art and Design dorm...

Northampton, Massachusetts Fire Chief and Wife Face ?Social Host? Charge For Letting Teenagers Drink Alcohol

Posted on June 10, 2008
In Massachusetts, Northampton Fire Chief Edgar Lesko and his wife Deborah have pled not guilty to four counts of furnishing alcohol to a minor. The couple is accused of letting several underage teenagers drink alcohol in their home last summer. One of the teens, David Homan, 19, died when the car he was driving it a tree...

Saugus, Massachusetts Man Pleads Not Guilty to Drug Possession and Distribution Related to Sting Operation Involving New England Patriots Player

Posted on June 05, 2008
In federal court in Massachusetts, Daniel Ekasala pled not guilty to three counts of possession of oxycodone with intent to distribute. Authorities apprehended the 35-year-old Saugus resident during a sting operation involving New England Patriots offensive lineman Nicholas Kaczur...

R & B Star R. Kelly on Trial for Child Pornography

Posted on May 26, 2008
The criminal trial of R & B Singer R. Kelly continues this week. Kelly is charged with 14 counts of child pornography related to a video in which he allegedly is seen having sex with a minor. Kelly has pled not guilty to all 14 counts and he denies that he is the man seen in the video having sex with the young girl...

Massachusetts Man Faces Assault Charges After Firing Weapon To Protect His Business From Intruder

Posted on May 19, 2008
In Massachusetts, a Hanover caterer who fired a gun at an intruder is being charged with assault with a deadly weapon and discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a dwelling. David Crest is scheduled to appear in court for his arraignment next week. Crest had been sleeping in the office of his catering business when he heard a noise on April 21...

Mother Indicted In MySpace Hoax that Led to Teenager?s Suicide

Posted on May 16, 2008
Lori Drew, a Missouri mother, has been indicted in connection with a cyber taunting case that prompted a teenager to commit suicide in 2006. The federal indictment, filed in US District Court in Los Angeles, says the 49-year-old mother and others used a MySpace account to pose as ?Josh Evans,? a 16-year-old boy...

Massachusetts Prosecutors Say State Senator Marzilli Will Not Be Charged With Indecent Assault and Battery

Posted on May 13, 2008
In Massachusetts, Middlesex County prosecutors have announced that they will not file criminal charges against State Senator James Marzilli. The announcement comes after prosecutors conducted an investigation into charges filed by a woman alleging that the senator had inappropriately touched her without her consent early in the morning on April 6...

Elderly Massachusetts Woman Pleads Guilty to Deadly Hospital Drive-Thru Crash And Gets 18 Months Probation

Posted on May 07, 2008
77-Year-Old Jane Berghold, the woman who accidentally drove her car into Brockton Hospital last October, has been sentenced to 18 months probation and the revocation of her driver?s license for 15 years. Yesterday, the Rockland senior pled guilty in a Massachusetts court to two counts of homicide by negligent operation of a motor vehicle and one count of negligent operation of a motor vehicle...

Massachusetts Man Apprehended After Amber Alert Is Issued Pleads Not Guilty to Kidnapping His Son

Posted on May 05, 2008
In Cambridge District Court last week, Arlington resident Michael Whalen pled not guilty to kidnapping, threats, and receiving stolen property over $250. A statewide Amber Alert had been issued in Massachusetts on Wednesday after Whalen?s six-month-old son Lucas disappeared...

Massachusetts Man Found Not Guilty of Nearly Biting Friend?s Ear Off

Posted on April 29, 2008
A Winthrop High School assistant football coach has been acquitted of charges that he bit someone?s ear in Massachusetts. Charges included two counts of aggravated assault and battery and mayhem. Had Richard Fucillo been convicted, he could have served up to 20 years in prison...

Boston Firefighter Apprehended for Alleged OxyContin Drug Crime

Posted on April 28, 2008
A Boston firefighter was apprehended by police on Friday for allegedly purchasing OxyContin from a drug dealer that had been under police surveillance. Firefighter and Dorchester resident William Boyle has been ordered to appear in District Court for the alleged possession of a Class B substance...

Nantucket, Massachusetts Man Charged With Smuggling

Posted on April 25, 2008
In Boston, Charles A. Manghis, has been charged with multiple counts of smuggling sperm whale teeth and elephant ivory, making false statements to federal agents, and conspiracy. The 53-year-old Nantucket, Massachusetts resident, also a Ukrainian national, was arrested on Thursday...

Gloucester Woman Involved in Head-On Car Crash with Sandra Bullock in Massachusetts Pleads Not Guilty

Posted on April 22, 2008
The Gloucester woman charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor and failure to stay in a marked lane when her car struck the SUV carrying movie star Sandra Bullock has pled not guilty. Lucile P. Gatchell entered her not guilty plea during her arraignment today in Gloucester District Court...

Everett Middle School Employee Charged with Child Rape and Indecent Assault and Battery in Massachusetts Pleads Not Guilty

Posted on April 18, 2008
In Massachusetts, Robert J. Shea, a basketball coach and custodian at Everett Middle School has been charged with two counts of rape and three counts of indecent assault and battery involving a 12-year-old boy. He has pled not guilty to the charges. Shea?s arrest on April 6 and the subsequent charges announced on April 7 came a few days after the boy?s mother reported him to police...

76-Year-Old Revere, Massachusetts Man Pleads Not Guilty To Dealing Prescription Drugs

Posted on April 15, 2008
Richard "Pops" Picardi Sr, a 76-year-old Revere, Massachusetts resident, has pled not guilty to charges that include unlawful distribution of a Class B substance, selling cigarettes without state tax stamps, receiving stolen property, and violating drug laws in a school zone...

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