Crime

An accountant/bookkeeper at a Boston-based company was arrested yesterday and charged in federal court in Boston with stealing approximately $588,000 of her employer’s funds. Thanh Tam Thao Huynh, a/k/a Tiffany Huynh, 30, a Canadian national residing in Quincy, was arrested yesterday and charged with three counts of wire fraud. Huynh …

The Springfield Police Department Strategic Impact Unit seized approximately 23,750 bags of heroin during a raid Wednesday afternoon. Narcotics Detectives, under the direction of Captain Brian Keenan executed a search warrant at 162 Gresham Street in Springfield around 4:30pm, making two arrests, seizing more than 23,000 bags of heroin and …

Members of the New Bedford Police Department gang and narcotics units took a .25 caliber firearm with ten rounds of ammunition in the magazine off the street Thursday, as well as nearly 22 grams of marijuana, five grams of cocaine and four grams of crack cocaine, as part of an …

At around 12:10 a.m. on Wednesday December 6th Trooper Burt Fahy was working a construction detail on Route 91 northbound in the City of Springfield. The highway was shut down with traffic being diverted off the highway on to East Columbus Ave. Trooper Fahy observed a white van passing his …

The owner of Esther’s Fashion Paradise in Worcester pleaded guilty yesterday in federal court to defrauding the SNAP benefits program and selling counterfeit merchandise. Esther Acquaye, 31, of Worcester, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to acquire, possess, and redeem SNAP benefits in an unauthorized manner, and to convert …

Brian Augustine Joyce, a former Massachusetts State Senator, was arrested this morning by federal authorities for allegedly using his state senate office for private gain. Joyce, 55, of Westport, Mass., was charged in a federal indictment unsealed today with racketeering, extortion, honest services fraud, money laundering, conspiracy to defraud the …

An Illinois man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Springfield for attempting to sexually exploit two minors. Zack Sawyer, 32, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni to 15 years in prison and 15 years of supervised release. In June 2017, Sawyer pleaded guilty to two …

A Brockton man in possession of a loaded gun and drugs struggled violently with Massachusetts State Troopers during the overnight hours after one of the Troopers stopped the man’s car on Route 95 northbound in Dedham. The suspect began a violent struggle after Troopers got him out of the car …

UPDATE: Miguel Martins and Mark Sylvia are being held without bail pending a dangerousness hearing on Dec. 12. A bail of $500 was set for Corey Houser. Following an investigation, members of the police department’s Gang unit and Organized Crime Intelligence Bureau (Narcotics Division) conducted a search warrant on Monday …

William Shenette, 31, was arrested on Friday, Dec. 1, 2017, and charged in federal court in Worcester with possession of child pornography. On Dec. 1, 2017, a search warrant was executed at Shenette’s residence in Webster where videos containing prepubescent children engaged in sexually explicit conduct, including oral and anal …