Norwood Police chief issues statement on apparent suicide
COURTESY OF THE NORWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT
NORWOOD – The following is a statement from Police Chief William G. Brooks III regarding the apparent suicide of a man near the Norwood Airport on Saturday, April 10:
“Saturday night, the Norwood Police Department was called to Azalea Drive as a result of a 911 call from a resident. A male family member had made concerning statements, had retrieved a firearm and was loading it when the caller called 911 and fled the residence. Responding officers encountered the caller in the street.
“As a result of the nature of the call, numerous NPD radio cars responded into the neighborhood. The officers made observations which led them to believe that the man had fled his residence in the general direction of a thickly wooded area that lies between Azalea Drive and Norwood Airport. The department command staff was notified, and I authorized a call to neighbors as well as a social media p
MANSFIELD â A former local man arrested after a manhunt in September was sentenced Thursday to six months in jail for cutting off his GPS bracelet while on probation for domestic assault charges.
Theodore Welsh, 45, now of Somerville, will serve the sentence concurrently with a two-year jail term he is currently serving for violating his probation.
Welsh was apprehended Sept. 29 on a friendâs boat off the coast of Scituate after a search that included officers from Mansfield, Boston and Scituate, the state police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section and the Metropolitan Law Enforcement Council.
He had cut off his GPS ankle bracelet in Weymouth shortly after midnight and was missing for 16 hours before he was apprehended, a prosecutor said in Attleboro District Court Thursday.
Wareham Police Apprehend Convicted Murderer Hiding in Home
WAREHAM Wareham Police teamed with other law enforcement to apprehend a convicted murderer wanted on a parole violation who was hiding out in the attic of an Onset home Tuesday night.
On December 22 at about 8:40 p.m., Massachusetts parole officers Nathan Mendes, Robert Mello, Timothy White and Mychal Grady developed information that a wanted individual was staying at a house on Mason Street Extension in Onset. The parole officers requested the assistance of the Wareham Police Department to serve the warrant. The wanted individual was on parole for murder, and currently under investigation for a recent crime in the Boston area. In addition, information was received that the suspect had commented he was not going to be taken back to jail.
Dec 23, 2020
A man under investigation for a recent crime in the Boston area and who was on parole after being previously convicted of murder was arrested by Wareham police after hiding in an attic and attempting to escape through a vent.
At about 8:40 p.m. on Dec. 22, police officers learned the man, Gino Gaillardetz, 56, of Chelsea, was staying at a house on Mason Street Ext.
He had allegedly commented that he was “not going back to jail.”
Gaillardetz was on parole for a murder he was convicted of committing in 1986. According to publicly available parole board records, Gaillardetz was drinking and doing cocaine in Hyannis when he planned to rob Francis Gray at knifepoint. Gray grabbed at him and Gaillardetz stabbed him in the chest three times.