Your Shield Against Criminal Prosecution
Diane Wilkerson, the former State Senator from Roxbury, Massachusetts, appeared in Boston’s Federal Court today and pled Guilty to 8 counts of Attempted Extortion. Wilkerson was charged with Attempted Extortion for allegedly taking thousands of dollars in bribes. She was initially charged under a 32 count indictment, which also included Conspiracy to Extort Cash, Mail Fraud and Wire Fraud. 24…
Earlier this week, Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis released a flier throughout various communities in the City of Boston showing photos of 10 unidentified young men the police allege belong to a street gang. I’m not going to qualify the flier by posting it on this Blog, but it looks like a mug shot composite. The purpose in releasing…
Cristostomo Lopes, 20, and Joshua Fernandes, 16, were arraigned this morning in the Dorchester Division of the Boston Municipal Court in connection with the Sunday Murder of 14 year old Nicholas Fomby-Davis. At their arraignment, Suffolk County prosecutors alleged that Lopes and Fernandes both jumped Fomby-Davis on Bowdoin Street as he rode his motor scooter. Once off the scooter, prosecutors…
John Reilly, 60, was arrested by police this weekend for allegedly trying to strangle his wife. The incident occurred this past Friday at Massachusetts General Hospital where his wife was a patient. According to police, Reilly was allegedly observed by hospital staff shaking and pushing his wife up and down while holding her by the neck. No information regarding his…
In reversing the Gun Crimes convictions of two men, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that police officers can no longer frisk someone during a routine encounter unless they have ‘reasonable suspicion’ to believe the person is involved in criminal activity and is armed and dangerous. In the case of Commonwealth v. Jamal Martin, that defendant had been convicted of…
A man attempting to rob Llanera Market in South Boston earlier this week got stuck in the metal grate he tried to shimmy between. The security camera caught Phillip Donahue breaking into the store on East 8th Street by starting to bend the metal grate at approximately 2:25 a.m. By 3:30 a.m., he had gotten his head through but ended…
When Boston Police and firefighters first responded to Gavin Way yesterday for an unknown medical call, they didn’t know what to expect. They quickly discovered that a second-floor apartment was on fire and a man had jumped from the second floor…and that a woman was inside the burning apartment, suffering from multiple stab wounds. Boston Police report that the man,…
Clark Rockefeller, the man who kidnapped his young daughter, appeared in Suffolk Superior Court this morning and asked a 3-judge appellate panel to reduce his 4-5 year state prison sentence for parental Kidnapping. Rockefeller argued that his sentence was beyond the ‘sentencing guidelines’, but the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office justified the sentence on the grounds that his extraordinary actions…
Adam B. Wheeler, 23, a Harvard University senior, is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow in Middlesex Superior Court for various Theft Crimes involving allegedly forging academic documents, transcripts, and for collecting over $45,000 in financial aid and scholarships under false pretenses. According to the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office, Wheeler was admitted by Harvard as a result of falsely claiming…
Five men were detained Sunday in an early morning raid on Spruce Street in Chelsea, Massachusetts. The incident was prompted when Chelsea Police received a call that three men attempted to rob Jose Benitez and a female at gunpoint at 8:15 a.m., and then ran into 258 Spruce Street. Benitez told Chelsea Police that the men initially took jewelry and…