A 40-year-old Lowell man was arrested after Boston police allegedly discovered that he was in possession of a loaded handgun and large amount of illegal drugs in Roxbury on Saturday afternoon, police said.
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About 27,000 people convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol in Massachusetts may be able to get a second trial.
On Monday, Feb. 8, the Northwestern District Attorney’s Office said it would be notifying people convicted of OUI between 2011 and 2018 that they may be entitled to a new trial based on unreliable breathalyzer results.
In Hampshire and Franklin counties, more than 3,100 people will be getting such notices, the DA said. Each district attorney in Massachusetts is responsible for contacting qualifying OUI convicts in their regions.
In Massachusetts, breathalyzer results used in criminal cases from 2011 to 2018 were deemed inadmissible after several criminal defendants challenged the test results’ reliability in Boston Municipal and District Court.
A Boston Public Schools official has been charged with raping a 15-year-old former student at the Joseph P. Timilty Middle School earlier this year. Manuel Mendes, 38, of Boston, the school’s dean of students, was arrested Friday on a warrant charging him with four counts of statutory rape. He was arraigned Monday in West Roxbury Municipal Court. Bail was set… chelsea Dec 2, 2020
A man has been charged with beating his roommate to death this weekend in Chelsea, Massachusetts, prosecutors said Wednesday. Bartolo Cruz Cosigua Gonzalez, a 44-year-old from Chelsea, was arrested Monday on a manslaughter charge in the killing that prosecutors say took place Saturday. Chelsea police officers found Gonzalez’ roommate, 25-year-old Alexis Antonio Yanes-Majano, lying on the street outside an apartment…
A Massachusetts lawyer who has previously been charged with rape is wanted in Boston on a new rape charge as well as for allegedly breaking and entering at.