CRIME & SAFETY
Search Intensifies for 12-Year-Old Maci Ryan Missing in Holyoke, Massachusetts
The search is intensifying for a 12-year-old girl reported missing in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The Holyoke Police Department has reached out to the public to help locate Maci Ryan, who also goes by the name Jasmine. Maci was last seen on March 17th near Canby Street, and authorities say she has connections to Westfield, Massachusetts. Concerns are escalating as each day passes without a sign of her whereabouts.
Westfield man found guilty in stabbing murder of ex-girlfriend
WESTFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Guilty-- that is the key word for the now convicted murderer Blake Scanlon, who was found to have stabbed the mother of his child, his ex-girlfriend to death five years ago. Now, the family and friends of Alexis Avery, who was stabbed 28 times to her...
West Springfield Police search for 2 theft suspects
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Police are seeking the public’s help in identifying two individuals involved in a West Springfield theft incident. According to the West Springfield Police Department, back on march 8th around 11:00am, someone parked their car to take advantage of one of the town’s hiking trails.
Woman accused of stabbing bouncers at Southington restaurant faces judge
The woman accused of stabbing two bouncers and biting a third at a Southington restaurant and bar over the weekend appeared in court Monday. Police arrested Heidi Montes, 24, of Wallingford along with her brother, Adrian Montes, 28, of Springfield, Massachusetts, and Stuart Chase, 32, of Leeds, Massachusetts, after an altercation that led to the violent stabbings.
Cases settled: 2 ex-officials of veterans home where 76 died in the pandemic avoid jail time
BOSTON (AP) — Two former officials of a veterans home in Massachusetts where at least 76 people died in one of the nation’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks in a long-term care facility settled their criminal case Tuesday without having to go to jail. Bennett Walsh, the former superintendent of the Veterans’ Home in Holyoke, and Dr. David Clinton, the home’s former medical director, were facing five counts of criminal neglect after the Massachusetts’ highest court overruled a lower court judge last year and reinstated the charges. Theirs was the first criminal case brought in the country against anyone connected to nursing homes deaths during the pandemic. Prosecutors had sought guilty pleas and three years probation on the charges including one year of home confinement. They cited the bad conditions and lack of staffing at the facility and the need for a sentence that “merits real consequences.”
Crews respond to robbery at Calls Corner Store in Greenfield
After arriving on the scene, officers received a description of the suspect which was reported to be a skinny man wearing a mask who demanded money and then eventually took the cash register and fled the store.
Student Threatens To Shoot Springfield School; Mom, 2 Others Busted
Lilly Casanova, 40, Ramon Gonzalez, 24, and Nathan Gonzalez, 20, were arrested early Tuesday morning after police raided their home on White Street, Springfield police said. Springfield police received a tip that a 12-year-old had boasted about having access to guns and was planning on bringing one of them to school. Officers contacted the student's mom, Casanova, who told them the child did not have access to any weapons. However, she would not allow officers in her home without a warrant to verify that. authorities said.
Opening statements in trial of man accused of stabbing ex-girlfriend 28 times
Opening statements are now over in a murder trial of a man accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend 28 times back in 2019 in Westfield. Western Mass News was there as prosecutors and the defense argued their sides to the jury.
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