The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reduced the conviction of a Worcester man found guilty of stealing a Purple Heart from a World War II veteran's son in a 2014 burglary.
“The two men tied the hands of the victims the owner, his daughter and her boyfriend and put duct tape over their mouths before raiding a safe in the living room,” the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office said.
Worcester Superior Court Judge Richard T. Tucker Freddie Toms , 39, of Gansevoort, N.Y., was sentenced to two concurrent terms of 5 to 15 years in Walpole State Prison after pleading guilty to …