Crime

At around 7 pm on July 24th, New Bedford police officers executed a search warrant at 1095 Pleasant Street – apartment 1 and arrest three female roommates. Police report various amounts of fentanyl, cocaine, clonazepam in the apartment. Fentanyl was responsible for 89% of all overdoses in Massachusetts in 2018. …

At 5:25 pm on 24 July, New Bedford police officers responded to a motor vehicle accident on Maxfield Street in New Bedford. After interacting with the driver, police officers determined he was under the influence of a drug. 30-year old Zacharie Stefanski of New Bedford is being charged with OUI-drugs, …

On Sunday, July 28, Dartmouth police officer Justin Amaral arrested Jose Luis Diaz of Dartmouth and charged him with open and gross lewdness, unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, operating an unregistered motor vehicle, and a marked lanes violation. Diaz’s arrest was the result of an investigation conducted by Officer …

Zachary Brazdis has been wanted for the past eight months after defaulting on a Superior Court Probation matter in December of 2018. The defendant threw a 75-year-old Taunton Galleria Mall employee to the ground in order to escape with a camera he had stolen from Sears. He also threatened and …

Today (Friday, July 26, 2019), the Massachusetts State Police Division of Homeland Security and Preparedness, with the assistance of Wrentham Police, other MSP units, and numerous other partner agencies, executed a search warrant at a Wrentham home that led to the seizure of several assault rifles and a handgun, numerous …

A 45-year-old Fairhaven man who was recorded numerous times on a lawfully obtained wiretap negotiating and arranging the purchase and delivery of heroin sold by the Ortiz Heroin Trafficking Organization was sentenced to serve no jail time despite being convicted this week of Conspiracy in Fall River Superior Court, Bristol …

Two drivers were arrested for OUI on Tuesday night. One is being charged with OUI-drugs while driving with a suspended license with illegally attached plates on an unregistered/uninsured vehicle. At 10:31 pm on Tuesday, 32-year old Derek Correia of New Bedford was arrested and charged with OUI-liquor on the 10-block …

New Bedford police officers arrested three people to include a 20-year old with a loaded handgun after responding to a crowd disturbance in the 20 blocks of Bentley Street around 6 pm on Tuesday. 20-year old Edwin Garcia of New Bedford was arrested and is being charged with carrying a …

Early this morning, just about 1:00 a.m., Trooper Jack Doherty and his K 9 partner Duke assisted the Hampden Police Department with a search of a suspect who fled on foot after breaking into several cars. Trooper Doherty deployed K9 Duke on a track from the area where the suspect …

On Wednesday, July 24, at 2:09 p.m. Wareham Police were requested to respond to Rite-Aid at the Wareham Plaza for a shoplifting in progress. The shoplifter, described as a female fled the lot in a blue Nissan driving very erratically westbound on Marion Road just prior to the arrival of …