Junior Melendez, a city man authorities have alleged to be the leader of the Massachusetts chapter of the Almighty Vice Lords gang, and two city associates were each convicted of one count of conspiring to sell 500 or more grams of cocaine, court records show.
The city of Worcester recently paid $20,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a Liberian immigrant who alleged he was racially profiled and falsely arrested by an off-duty detail police officer at Walmart.
The police department in Worcester, Mass., has now been awarded a $250,000 grant from the state that will go toward equipping officers with body cameras, joining 64 other jurisdictions that received similar money.