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16 Suspects Indicted in Major Boston Drug Bust, Over 100K Fentanyl-Laced Pills Seized
BOSTON – Sixteen suspects are back in the hot seat as a federal grand jury in Boston slams them with a superseding indictment for their roles in purportedly running a major drug ring. The charges follow a massive haul in which investigators confiscated over 100,000 pills laced with deadly fentanyl and methamphetamine.
2 USPS mail carriers robbed in Dorchester
Two USPS mail carriers were robbed in Boston's Dorchester neighborhood Friday. Boston police said they were called to the first robbery on Mora Street around 11:10 a.m. Few details were immediately available. Just minutes later, around 11:35 a.m., officers were called to the intersection of Seldon and West Seldon streets...
Boston man sentenced for trying to hire hit man to kill ex-wife because of her 'Westernization'
BOSTON (TCD) -- A 47-year-old man will spend just under eight years in prison for trying to hire a contract killer to murder his ex-wife and her new boyfriend because the woman reportedly wouldn’t allow him to see his children. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts...
‘True monster’: Man convicted of raping, killing Mass. teacher pleads guilty in brutal assault case
A man convicted in the rape and death of a Massachusetts high school teacher more than a decade ago when he was a teenager pleaded guilty Friday to charges in connection with a separate assault case.
Flight attendant indicted in attempt to record teen girl in airplane bathroom
BOSTON (AP) — An American Airlines flight attendant was indicted Thursday after authorities said he tried to secretly record video of a 14-year-old girl using an airplane bathroom last September. Police have also alleged that Estes Carter Thompson III, 36, of Charlotte, North Carolina, had recordings of four other...
A man accused in a Harvard bomb threat and extortion plot is sentenced to 3 years probation
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A New Hampshire man accused of participating in a plot in which a caller issued bomb threats last year to Harvard University and demanded a large amount of bitcoin was sentenced Thursday to three years of probation. The threats caused the evacuation of Harvard’s Science...
‘His life had impact’: Billerica police mourning loss of sergeant killed in construction accident
Sergeant Ian Taylor, 49, was helping move a large tractor-trailer at a roadside construction site at the intersection of Boston Road and Pollard Road when he was struck by an excavator around 2:00 p.m.
Son Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter in ‘Exorcism’ Drowning of Banker Dad
A Massachusetts man was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Thursday in the drowning death of his father, who died during an attempted exorcism in 2021.Jack Callahan, 22, was found guilty on one count of involuntary manslaughter after an eight-day trial and about 25 hours of jury deliberations, Plymouth County prosecutor Timothy Cruz said.On June 28, 2021, then-19-year-old Jack Callahan allegedly went to Boston to pick up his father, Scott, who had noted substance abuse issues, from a bar. The two men had then taken a rideshare home together, which dropped them off at a park. After some time, the two of...
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