Crime

A former Massachusetts State Trooper pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with the ongoing investigation of overtime abuse at the Massachusetts State Police (MSP). Per an agreement unsealed today, Gregory Raftery, 47, of Westwood, pleaded guilty to one count of embezzling funds from a state agency …

Three members of the Massachusetts State Police (MSP) were arrested and charged today with theft from an agency receiving government funds, as part of an ongoing investigation. Two recently retired, one recently suspended. Former Lieutenant David Wilson, 57, of Charlton; Trooper Gary Herman, 45, of Chester; and Former Trooper Paul …

A Pennsylvania woman was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston for smuggling drugs into the United States on a commercial flight from the Dominican Republic. Natalia Alexander Duran, 23, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Rya W. Zobel to one year and one day in prison and three …

A Canadian national pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court in Springfield to enticing children over the internet to produce child pornography and to send the sexually explicit pictures to him. Justin Carl Wong, 35, of Ontario, Canada, pleaded guilty to 10 counts of sexual exploitation of a minor. U.S. District …

A 37-year-old Somerset man who, while driving on Brayton Avenue in Fall River, struck and killed a pedestrian, and then fled the scene, was convicted and sentenced to serve three to four years in state prison. Victor Hopkins pleaded guilty in Fall River Superior Court this week to a charge …

On Sunday, June 24, at approximately 2:45 p.m., Officer Colby CUSSON stopped a vehicle for erratic operation near the Stop & Shop plaza on Faunce Corner Road. During the course of the investigation, it was learned that one of the passengers, identified as Lupe Martinez, 31, of Dartmouth, had five …

On Saturday, June 23 at about 1130 pm, Wareham Police Officers Calib Larue and Stephen Harrison responded for a report of a vehicle that had just struck a telephone pole by the Cranberry Plaza, and was now driving down Depot Street toward Great Neck Road. While the officers were checking …

On Friday, June 22, at about 6:30 am, Wareham Police responded to Little Harbor Beach for a report of a vehicle in the water. The vehicle was out approximately 50 yards from the beach, prompting Officer Christopher Corner to walk out to the vehicle to make sure it was unoccupied. …

Three MS-13 members have been indicted on charges of racketeering and illegal possession of firearms and ammunition. Nelson Cruz Rodriguez Cartagena, a/k/a “Inquieto,” 24, a Salvadoran national illegally residing in Everett, was indicted on one count of conspiracy to conduct enterprise affairs through a pattern of racketeering activity, commonly referred …

Francis “Cadillac” Salemme, a former boss of the New England Family of La Cosa Nostra (NELCN), and former NELCN associate Paul Weadick, were convicted on Friday by a federal jury in connection with the 1993 murder of Steven A. DiSarro. Francis P. Salemme, 84, and Paul M. Weadick, 63, were …