Crime

A 28-year-old New Bedford man convicted after a four-day trial last week in Fall River Superior Court of forcing his way into a home, holding a gun to the victim’s head and firing two shots at the victim as he fled to safety was sentenced to serve up to a …

Shortly after 10 p.m. yesterday Trooper Nikos Retzos, assigned to State Police-Boston, was on patrol in Boston when he observed a white sedan stopped on the Gilmore Bridge in front of Bunker Hill Community College. Trooper Retzos approached the vehicle to ask the operator, later identified as KEVIN PERIEL, 23, …

Jeffrey Raposo, 40, of New Bedford was spotted by Pawtucket Police in stole a vehicle in the Stop & Shop parking lot on Cottage Street. He then led police on a high-speed chase throughout the city. In his attempt to get away from police, Raposo drove dangerously and recklessly endangering …

On Tuesday, October 29, New Bedford Police Narcotic Detectives concluded an investigation into a cocaine delivery service operated out of 396 Elm Street in New Bedford. Detectives executed a search warrant and arrested 58-year old Domingo Perez of 396 Elm Street in New Bedford. Officers seized 59.5 grams of cocaine, …

A 52-year-old Taunton man who strangled and stabbed his live-in girlfriend this past March was sentenced to serve four to six years in state prison last week in Fall River Superior Court, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced. Michael Correia pleaded guilty to indictments charging him with …

The Massachusetts State Police is seeking the public’s help in identifying the man and woman shown in these photos. They are suspects in relation to an investigation of a stolen credit card in the South Boston area on October 20, 2019. These pictures show them using the stolen credit card …

New Bedford police report that a confused, elderly man was detained after allegedly forcibly trying to enter candidate for New Bedford Mayor Richard Tyson Moultrie’s residence multiple times just before 5 am on Friday morning. Mr. Moultrie lives with his girlfriend and child at 138 Rotch Street in New Bedford. …

On Saturday, October 26, members of the New Bedford Police Gang Unit arrested a man after a brief foot chase. Officers arrested 21-year old Alexander Fortes with no certain address of New Bedford after he was found to be in possession of a stolen firearm. Mr. Fortes was charged with …

New Bedford police officers arrested twelve people on various drug charges in three separate incidents on Wednesday. In total, the New Bedford police department made 16 arrests on Wednesday, October 23. At 12:08 am, New Bedford police officers executed a search warrant at 131 Hathaway Street, Apartment 2W and arrested …

Members of the New Bedford Police Department’s Narcotics and Gang Unit arrested two men in separate cases for trafficking fentanyl and unlawful possession of a firearm. On Friday, October 25, 2019, members of the Narcotic and Gang Unit were targeting street-level drug activity, when their observations led them to a …