The Boston Police Department reported this morning that they have arrested 3 persons in connection with the Murder of Richel Nova, 58, of Hyde Park, who was shot while delivering pizza to a vacant house on Hyde Park Avenue. According to the Boston Police Department, two men and one woman…
An Everett man was shot by police and is in critical condition after trying to rob the Everett Cooperative Bank this past Tuesday. The Everett Police Department alleges that the man entered the Everett Cooperative Bank, displayed a knife and robbed the bank of an undisclosed amount of case. The…
Jonathan P. Santos, 22, of Dorchester, Massachusetts, was arrested earlier today in Lawrence – he had been under investigation and wanted for an Indecent Assault & Battery. The Boston Police Department reported that Santos was arrested this afternoon and formally charged with Indecent Assault & Battery; Assault & Battery with…
Phillip Markoff, dubbed the “Craigslist Killer” by the media who was held without bail pending his Murder trial, was found dead at the Suffolk County Jail on Nashua Street yesterday morning from what appears to have been a suicide. According to sources from the Boston Police Department and the Suffolk…
Luther M. Henderson, 35, of Brockton, Massachusetts, was arraigned earlier this month on Armed Robbery and Kidnapping Charges for allegedly meeting and then robbing a Craigslist escort at gunpoint. According to the Brockton Police Department and Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office, Henderson arranged to meet a female escort he found…
In response to a Craigslist ad, three persons traveled from Rhode Island to Milton, Massachusetts to purchase a television they saw advertised on the Craigslist website, only to be robbed at gunpoint of over $1,000. According to the Milton Police Department, the incident occurred at a foreclosed home on Randolph…
Michael Coty, 45, of Norwood, Massachusetts, pled Guilty in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection to three Armed Robberies in Needham, Wellesley and neighboring communities. Police alleged that Coty and his co-defendant, Dimitri Long, robbed several Boston banks between April and July in 2009. During those robberies, the suspects…
Boston Police Officers responded to a report of “an Armed Robbery in progress” at 10:30 p.m. Thursday evening. Once on scene, police officers met with the victim who reported that six or seven men had tried to rob him of his bike. Once the group of young men surrounded him,…
Chukuma E. Ajene, 26, of Mattapan, Massachusetts, was arrested this past weekend for allegedly attempting to rob the AMC Lowes Theater on Tremont Street in Boston. The Boston Police Department reported that Ajene, armed with a gun, allegedly jumped the counter and threatened to shoot everyone in the theater. The…
As a follow-up to my June 4, 2010 post on the Boston Criminal Lawyers Blog, Stephen Woodard, who had escaped from a Suffolk County Sheriff’s van, surrendered this past Monday in Charlestown, Massachusetts. You may recall that Woodard escaped from the Sheriff’s van on foot last Friday and then stole…