Crime

A corrections officer at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute facility in Norfolk (MCI-Norfolk) was arrested on Monday, November 19 and charged in connection with conspiracy to smuggle Suboxone strips into the facility for an inmate. Steven J. Frazer, 29, of Cumberland, R.I., was arrested today and charged in a criminal complaint …

A Plymouth man was sentenced on Monday, November 19, in federal court in Boston for anonymously stalking three women by text message and social media, including one woman he stalked throughout the 14-months they dated. Joseph Kukstis, 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge F. Dennis Saylor IV to …

A 46-year-old New Bedford man arrested late last year for dealing heroin out of his Coffin Avenue apartment was sentenced to serve up to four-and-a-half years in state prison recently, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced. Edwin Cabezudo pleaded guilty in Fall River Superior Court to an …

MATTHEW VINCENT JULIAN is wanted on several outstanding warrants for violent crimes by the Yarmouth Police Department. JULIAN is a convicted violent Felon and has a wide ranging criminal record with 41 prior criminal charges on his adult record in Massachusetts. On Friday, November 2, 2018 at 10:30PM, JULIAN allegedly …

A federal grand jury has indicted a Mexican national in connection with a murder aboard a fishing vessel off the coast of Massachusetts. Franklin Freddy Meave Vazquez, 27, was indicted today on one count of murder in the second degree, one count of attempted murder, and one count of assault …

A Salvadoran national was charged in federal court in Boston in connection with a law enforcement seizure of 15 kilos of fentanyl discarded on the side of a road in Sturbridge. Nelson Garcia Martinez, 37, a Salvadoran national residing in Stockton, Calif., was charged with one count of distribution of …

On Sunday at about 8:15 p.m. a male juvenile stole a car in the parking lot of Cumberland Farms on Main Street in Wareham. When the owner who was in the store, approached the suspect he started to drive away dragging the owner several feet. The stolen vehicle then fled …

A West Springfield man is under arrest for drunk driving and other offenses after traveling the wrong way on Route 91 and striking an MSP cruiser and two other vehicles before rolling over. The suspect, driving a pickup truck, entered Longmeadow, Mass., from Connecticut on Route 91, going north on …

A Natick man was arrested on Friday, November 9, and charged in federal court in Boston in connection with possessing child pornography. Joshua Bemis, 28, was charged with one count of possession of child pornography. He appeared in federal court in Boston today and was ordered detained pending a detention …

On Saturday, November 10, at approximately 5:24 p.m., Dartmouth Police, and other emergency personnel, responded to the area of #104 Chase Road for a motor vehicle vs. utility pole crash. Upon arrival officers had to immediately shut traffic down, as the utility pole was severed as a result of the …