Crime

A 21-year-old New Bedford man was convicted today in Fall River Superior Court of manslaughter and other felonies connected to the August 2015 shooting homicide of Jeffrey Sylvia Jr. in New Bedford, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced. Darian Cardoza, who was 17 at the time of …

New Bedford police officers responded to five drug overdoses, two of them fatal in an 11-hour period on Jan 22, 2018. Two men overdosed together and died in the same Union Street apartment. One of the men resided at the residence and the other was a friend. According to the …

Chief Edward Walsh reports that the Taunton Police Department is actively investigating an armed home invasion on Morton Street that occurred Tuesday morning. At approximately 6:30 a.m., Taunton Police were dispatched to a multi-family home on Morton Street after receiving a report of people being held against their will, possibly …

At 2:08 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 21, New Bedford police officers responded to a disturbance at Tony’s Bar and Grill on 118 County St. on a report that a customer had thrown an object at a bartender, a 22-year-old New Bedford woman. No injuries were reported. Police arrested 38-year old …

A Massachusetts State Police Trooper and a tow truck driver were struck and injured by a passing vehicle a short time ago while they were attending to a disabled motor vehicle on Route 95 north in Wakefield. Both the Trooper and the tow driver have been transported by ambulance to …

On Saturday, at 9:15 a.m. Wareham Police were advised to be on the lookout for a vehicle involved in a shoplifting incident at the CVS in Bourne. A short while later Officer Christopher Smith observed the vehicle on Cranberry Highway, near Main Avenue. Officer Smith activated his lights and attempted …

On Saturday, January 19, 2019, at approximately 11:23 p.m., Dartmouth Police responded to Stephen Street regarding three males breaking into vehicles. Upon arrival in the area, Officer Alec Grant located the three male suspects walking near McDonald’s on Dartmouth Street. After briefly encountering the male suspects, all three fled on …

A 43-year-old Roslindale man, who caused a fatal crash on Route 95 in Attleboro in March of 2017 after bar-hopping in Boston on St. Patrick’s Day, was sentenced to serve five to eight years in state prison Thursday afternoon in Fall River Superior Court, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. …

A member of the Massachusetts State Police Most Wanted Fugitives list, a man who violently kidnapped and assaulted a woman in March, was captured this morning after an MSP Trooper assigned to the Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section tracked him to Miami. KEVIN J. HAMEL, 50, was arrested at about 7:45 …

A 32-year-old New Bedford man who while out on bail from a 2017 drug trafficking case, was once again arrested with more than 400 grams of heroin in his possession, was deemed a danger to the community and ordered held without bail pending trial in Superior Court, Bristol County District …