Scandal to hit the justice system. Chemist and future of 24,000 cases up in the air. Fox25 crystal haynes with inside the courtroom where a final list of defendants related to the case was only completed just a short time ago. Crystal . Crystal the aclu says it is, in fact, the issue. We know the chemist, annie dook ago. The state lab tech pled guilty to illegally tampering with drug tests would 003 to 2012, the states highest court deciding whether or not to dismiss all 24,000 cases to the recommendation of the aclu and the Public Defenders Office or cpcs. Now, they claim the cashstrapped agency just cant handle the influx of cases that large and letters sent out by notifying socalled dookhan defendants that defendants in that case were inatquad. Cpsc can petition the legislation for more resources and that every case deserves to be processed individually. One component of the cases may have been impacted by her misconduct, but it is not the whole case. It is one component. Simply are
On fox 25 at 6 00 we were the only station to speak with the key witness. Police say they have now found the man responsible with the attack. Erkea richie has more. Reporter he is 36yearold james lyons of woburn. Thats who police say pulled the knife and almost killed a man before taking off on a motorcycle. But he didnt get too far because Woburn Police arrested him right here in town today thanks to what internet and some good oldfashioned police work. Within 18 hours we were able to identify, locate and arrest this individual. Reporter Woburn Police began investigating immediately after responding to a stabbing outside jake and joes around midnight that left one man with lifethreatening injuries. Reporter chief says the stabbing was caught on camera and the video showed a slowingo on the suspect james lyons shirt so dts matching the one they tracked him down andard him at a people in woburn today. This is normal for us thats a good thing. When Something Like this happens we take the
Allegedly pulling a machete on another man. But the suspects family is telling us theres a little more to the story. 41yearold aldo rivera of worcester in District Court ordered held without bail in connection with a frightening confrontation near the high school. This cell phone video obtained by fox 25 shows the confrontation. Worcester police say as rivera held a machete which he grabbed from he threatened he would cut the other mans head off before he punched him in the face. All this taking place a block away from the high school and with riveras teen age children in his car. Before the confrontation police sayry survey and the other motorists were involved in a road rage incident. After court riveras wife and children wouldnt talk to us. His lawyer told us despite what the video shows the other driver was the real aggressor and rivera was acting in he was defending his kids and himself as best he could. Well see how it works out as far as the court goes as far as selfdefense. He
Send to share fox25boston. Com. And right now, First Responders are looking for a missing swimmer. The search has been happening for about two hours. Ted daniel has arrived at the scene. Ted, what can you tell us . Reporter well, we are on the plymouth side of Great Herring Pond and the search is taking place behind me, just a couple hundred yards from the shore here. There are at least five boats in the water right there was a coast guard helicopter circling above. Were working on preliminary reports now that three people took a boat out onto the pond this afternoon and were jumping off the boat to swim into the water. The wind is pretty strong, and theres some good gusts down here. Were told that the wind kept pushing the boat away. Two of the swimmers were able to make it back to the boat. But one was not. And that is the man that theyre looking for, believed plymouth. I spoke with a resident whos been watching the search all afternoon. Heres what he had to say just a few moments ag
And any one town or city will end up dry, we do need to be ready for a couple widely scattered showers, it will be humid and also going to be gusty, highs 76 to 82 degrees and stick around in less than 10 minute as look at how the showers could impact the pats game. Back to you guys. Okay. Back to the breaking news out of new york city, where the first reports of a blast came came after 8 30 last night in manhattans chelsea neighborhood. Police removed what they described az a secondex blocks away. This morgue we know 29 people are hurt and new york city mayor is saying so far there are not any indications this is terrorism related but that the investigation does continue. Fox 25s Stephanie Coueignoux is going through all the latest reports. Stephanie, this is devastating. We know a week ago we were talking about the 15th anniversary of the september 11th attack. Yes, and as everyone is on heightened alert this morning but still a lot unclear. So far, nobody claimed responsibility for