Crime

“On Wednesday, May 8 at approximately 1:45PM, our department was notified of a high-speed pursuit entering our town from Rochester. The pursuit began in the city of New Bedford as a result of a narcotics investigation. Once in town, the suspect attempted to evade capture by parking in the St. …

On Tuesday, May 7, members of the New Bedford Police Department’s Narcotic Unit conducted an undercover sting Tuesday evening, targeting prostitution in the North End of the city. The sting was coordinated because of concerned neighbors notifying police of increased prostitution activity in the area. An undercover female officer posed …

At approximately 8:30 p.m. Monday, Massachusetts State Police Troopers assigned to the Commonwealth Interstate Narcotics Reduction Enforcement Team-West (CINRET), the Massachusetts State Police Gang Unit, along with Holyoke Police and numerous other State Police units and arrested two men on illegal firearms and narcotics charges in Holyoke. The arrests followed …

Chief Joseph Perkins reports that the Middleborough Police Department arrested and charged a woman with selling fentanyl and other drugs Tuesday afternoon. RAKEL OLAFSDOTTIR, AGE 28, OF MIDDLEBOROUGH was charged with: · Possession to Distribute a Class A Drug (Fentanyl) · Possession to Distribute a Class B Drug (Percocet) · …

Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III, joined by local, state and federal law enforcement partners from the region, today held a press conference to announce the results of a year-long undercover investigation into a complex fentanyl trafficking ring operating in and around New Bedford. The extensive investigation, dubbed …

On Saturday, May 3, 2019, New Bedford Police Detectives Jason Gangi and Brian Rei were on patrol near Covell Street and Belleville Avenue, when they overheard a broadcast from The New Bedford Police Department’s Communication Division that an armed robbery had just occurred at Gas Express, located at 52 Tarkiln …

Friday evening, at approximately 6:22 p.m., a MassDOT help van driver requested assistance with the driver of a vehicle on Route 1 northbound in Peabody, in the area of the jughandle traffic lights. Trooper James Maloney, of the State Police Barracks in Danvers, as well as Trooper Patrick Haynes, of …

Troopers assigned to the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit for Suffolk County, along with the members of the federal Homeland Security Investigations Boston Strike Force, on Friday culminated a several months-long investigation by arresting three men and seizing more than three kilograms of fentanyl. The investigation, which began in late …

The Massachusetts State Police, Lawrence Police, and Essex County Sheriff’s Department Friday night conducted a Zero Tolerance Initiative in Lawrence that resulted in 26 arrests. Units made 26 arrests, one for trafficking in a Class A narcotic and another for possession of a Class B narcotic. The male charged with …

Today at approximately 1:30 a.m. Trooper Matthew Holden, assigned to the Norwell Barracks, was on patrol traveling on Samoset Street in the Town of Plymouth. At that time he observed a black Audi A4 operating erratically, unable to maintain any single lane of travel. He then activated his blue lights …