A 43-year-old New Bedford man who shot a woman inside a moving vehicle in August 2018 was sentenced to serve a decade in prison last week, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced. Attim Almeida pleaded guilty in Fall River Superior Court to indictments charging him with assault …
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State police detectives assigned to the Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office and Brockton Police have arrested a man in connection with a fatal shooting on Friday. At approximately 11:26pm on Friday, Brockton Police were alerted by Shotspotter and received several 911 calls reporting a shooting at 47 Highland Street. Police …
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Yesterday, Trooper Brandyn Henson, of the State Police-Bourne Barracks, arrested JAQUA SMITH, 24, of Onset, and SHAWN PANEPINTO, 22, of New Bedford, and charged them with Trafficking Heroin. Just about 9:30 a.m., Trooper Henson was on patrol on 11th Street in Wareham when he observed a Honda CR-V with an …
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UMass Boston Police and the Massachusetts State Police have identified and interviewed the man who vandalized the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Dorchester on Thursday. The man, a 33-year-old Dorchester resident, was taken into custody without incident this morning by State Troopers and UMass Officers. He was then interviewed by police. …
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On Wednesday, May 22, members of the New Bedford Police Department’s Narcotic Unit concluded an investigation into a fentanyl distribution service being operated from 33 Sherman Street in New Bedford. A search warrant was executed at 33 Sherman Street and resulted in the discovery of over 24 grams of fentanyl, …
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The Massachusetts State Police and University of Massachusetts Boston Police are investigating significant vandalism committed today at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester. Several dozen recent plantings of shrubs and flowers were torn out of the ground, numerous flags were ripped down and thrown into a wooded …
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On Wednesday, May 22, New Bedford police arrested four individuals in the driveway of 11 Viall Street on drug charges to include fentanyl distribution. Fentanyl is responsible for 89% of all the overdose deaths in Massachusetts in 2018. This is the second police raid at 11 Viall Steet since March. …
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Two people are being charged with OUI-drugs after they were found under the influence of drugs behind the wheel on Sawyer Street in New Bedford on Monday. At 1:55pm, New Bedford police officers noticed a person asleep behind the wheel in the area of 553 Sawyer Street with the engine …
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At approximately 8:10 p.m. yesterday Massachusetts State Troopers responded to a head-on hit-and-run crash on the Sagamore Bridge, Route 6 east, in Bourne. The investigation indicated that a 1999 Toyota coupe crossed the center line and struck a 2017 Volkswagen Passat heading in the opposite direction and occupied by an …
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The Massachusetts State Police Gang Unit and New Bedford Police Gang Unit, with the assistance of other units and agencies, yesterday arrested a New Bedford man on narcotics and ammunition charges and found a bag containing a substance believed to be fentanyl within two feet of a mattress where the …
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