According to the Boston Globe,Gustavo Pina, 29 of Saugus was indicted by a Suffolk County grand jury on Thursday on 22 counts of unemployment fraud. Mr. Pina allegedly collected more than $13,000 in jobless benefits while working. According to Prosecutors...

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According to the Boston Herald a 63 year old grandmother was charged with her third offense OUI in Marblehead on Friday. Sharon A. Faulkner was allegedly drunk when she got into an accident while she was driving her 9 year...

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Lorraine Henderson the former regional director for the Department of Homeland Security is set to go to trial in US District Court in Boston. Ms. Henderson was arrested in January 2008 on charges that she knowingly employed illegal aliens at...

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The Worcester County District Attorney's Office lags all other Massachusetts District Attorney's Massachusetts in Superior Court felony convictions. According to a study conducted by Massachusedtts Lawyers Weekly Worcester county had 34% conviction rate. Lawyers Weekly looked at all of the...

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The Suffolk County District Attorney dropped the criminal charges against a former City of Boston laborer in connection with two store robberies. The man who was arrested by the SWAT team in January lost his job because he was held...

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Jillian Baldner of Pembroke Massachusetts was arrested on March 3 for selling what the police believed to be oxycodone. Ms. Baldner was working as a driver for disbaled children at the the time of the arrest. When Ms. Baldner was...

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A popular teacher at the Nauset High School in Eastham was arrested for possession of child pornography. The 53 year old teacher's computer was also seized. The teacher was arraigned in the Orleans District and released on $5000 bail, It...

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According to the Boston Herald a Gloucester man pled guilty in Federal Court in Boston to striking tow whales with his boat. The man admitted that he hit two humpback whales after going through a bubble cloud made by the...

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A man from Maine that police believe was Operating Under the Influence was summons to court after causing an accident that closed Route 93 in both directions. The major highway linking Boston to the North Shore was closed for about...

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Roberto Perez, 18 of Rockland, Massachusetts was arrested after he allegedly stabbed a sixten year old boy Saturday night. The victim who was stabbed three times had to be airlifted to a Boston hospital. Mr. Perez was charged with armed...

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Anthonhy Scott 47 of Dorchester, Massachusetts was arrested by the Massachusetts State Police for selling marijuana at Logan Airport. Mr. Scott had worked at the shoeshine stand within Terminal C. After recieving a tip that Mr. Scott had been selling...

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According to the Cape Cod Times the Falmouth police applied for criminal charges against a 7 year first grader for assault and battery on two public employees. The first grader is accused of punching a teacher's aide and pulling the...

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The Boston Police used an undercover police officer to conduct a sting at a Fraternity Party. According to the Boston Globe, the Boston Police recently had complaints of that the fraternity house. In the past the Boston Police had responded...

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A Boston man was arrested Monday morning after he attempted to steal more $700 worth of merchandise from a Boston Walgreens store. When police arrived at the store the man ran away dropping the stolen merchandise. All told 93 items...

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According to the Boston Globe, the city of Worcester, Massachusetts settled a police brutality lawsuit for $47,500. The city of Worcester agreed to pay the man after he alleged that he was beaten by a baton when he was on...

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The Massachusetts State Police has announced that it plans to conduct a sobriety check point in MIddlesex county on March 5. According to the laws of Massachusetts the State Police must notify the public whenever they conduct a roadblock. The...

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According to the Cape Cod Times, both the husbnd and wife spent their first night married in a Hyannis jail. Marissa Ann Putignano-Keene married Timothy Keene Monday afternoon. After the serviced the couple celebrated by sharing a bottle of champagne....

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The Massachusetts RMV will not be going ahead with the planned $5 fee they had planned to impose. The fee was to be imposed if you did business with a live person versus doing either with an automated system or...

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The Boston Police unveiled a new tool to fight crime in the city of Boston called the Real Time Crime Center. The real time crime center is a a division of the Boston Police that is staffed with computer technicians....

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The Massachusetts State Police found a man hiding in a dumpster in Milton after he hit another car on the Southeast Expressway. On Friday at around 11 am witness say the man hit another car on the expressway then stopped...

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I am pleased to report that a client recently had her Operating Under the Influence Fourth Offense reduced to a second offense, allowing her to staying out of jail. The penalty for a fourth offense dwi is a mandatory minimum...

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An elderly man was stabbed to death and his wife was stabbed inside their house in Stoughton, Massachusetts. The 78 year old man and his 74 year old wife were attacked after someone entered their home. The Norfolk County District...

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A Mississippi man was arrested at the Barnstable Airport after the police had learned he had five pounds on marijuana. The man was intending fly to Nantucket. The police learned of the man's plot as a result of a tip....

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Michael J. Darrah, a fomer Brockton Police Officer, was indicted by a grand jury in Plymouth county on charges ranging from larceny over $250, larceny under $250, extortion by a police officer, and larceny from a person. Former Officer Darrah...

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The Massachusetts State Police has issued a press release stating that they have planned a Sobriety Checkpoint Saturday February 26, 2010 into Sunday February 27, 2010 in Suffolk County. Suffolk county consists of Boston,Revere, Chelsea, and Wintrop. Sobriety Checkpoints or...

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It has been quite some time since my last post, mainly because I have very busy. My schedule takes me to courtrooms all over the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the last thing I wanted to do when I got back...

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Lorraine Henderson, the regional director of Homeland Security, Customs, and Border Protection was charged today with repeatedly hiring illegal immigrants as housekeepers. This came as a result of an extensive investigation including the use of wiretaps. If convicted of the...

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The Massachusetts State Police has announced that it will be conducting a sobriety checkpoint otherwise known as a roadblock on Friday December 5, 2008 in the county of Norfolk. The purpose of a roadblock is to stop all the drivers...

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The Massachusetts State Police has announced that they will be conducting Sobriety Checkpoints in three counties this weekend(September 12-14). The roadblocks will be held in Middlesex County, Bristol County, and Essex County. If stopped at a roadblock, remember you have...

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According to the Massachusetts State Police press release, a field sobriety checkpoint, a.k.a. a roadblock is scheduled for Plymouth county on Friday July 18 into Saturday July 19. In order for a roadblock to comply with Massachusetts law it must...

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According to the Massachusetts State Police website a sobriety checkpoint, aka roadblock is scheduled for Middlesex County on Friday night July 18 into Saturday morning. In order for a roadblock to comply with Massachusetts law strict regulations must be followed...

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Boston Globe columnist Adrian Walker wrote a great piece in Tuesday's Globe regarding CORI reform. CORI reform is badly needed in Massachusetts and it needs to have been done yesterday. Adrian Walker's Article If you or someone you know has...

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Captain Paul Kennan has been selected by a group led by the Norfolk County Sheriff to replace the retiring Chief Crowley. Cpt. Kennan joined the Quincy Police in 1983 as a patrolman. He earned his degree in criminal justice and...

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Horace White, the man accused of attempting to burn down his friend's house in order to get his gold chain back is a City of Boston Department of Public Works employee. According to the Boston Herald, Mr. White was recently...

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WHDH TV exec Randi Goldklank has admitted wrongdoing and resigned from her position as vp and general manager of the television station. Ms. Goldklank was arrested after an alcohol fueled tirade in Boston's Logan Airport on April 20. Ms. Glodklank...

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