Crime

“A 37-year-old New Bedford man who stabbed a romantic rival in the neck at the city bus depot in 2021 and then hours later physically assaulted another man was sentenced to serve up to eight years in state prison on Tuesday in Fall River Superior Court, Bristol County District Attorney …

“A 52-year-old Norton man was convicted last Friday of possessing and disseminating child pornography, and was sentenced to jail time, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced. Brian Mello pled guilty to indictments charging him with two counts of Disseminating Material of a Child in a Sexual Act, …

“A 27-year-old New Bedford man who violently assaulted his girlfriend while enroute to pick up a child at the John B. DeValles School in June of 2021 was sentenced to serve two years in state prison last Thursday in Fall River Superior Court, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn …

By Michael P. Norton. Investigators in the state auditor’s office looked into 1,135 cases of suspected public benefits fraud over the last three months of 2022 and identified fraud in 255 of those cases totaling $2.7 million, according to Auditor Diana DiZoglio. The auditor last month filed a report with …

“A Fall River and Foxboro man was sentenced to prison for setting two fires, including one to a house where an elderly woman was asleep, after threatening an ex-girlfriend in a series of phone calls and texts. According to Bristol County District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Gregg Miliote, 51-year-old Brian E. …

22-year old Brandin Gonsalves of New Bedford, was arrested by the Fairhaven Police Department following an incident on Tuesday, March 14. Lt. Kevin Kobza reports that the Fairhaven Police Department arrested and charged a man following a report of a fight at a local store Tuesday night. Brandin Gonsalves, AGE …

“A resident doctor in Western Massachusetts was arrested this morning for allegedly possessing child pornography. Bradford Ferrick, 32, of Winchester, Mass., and Amherst, Mass., was charged with one count of possession of child pornography. Ferrick will make an initial appearance in federal court in Boston at 11:45 a.m. today via …

At approximately 11:00pm on Tuesday night, Fairhaven Police and the Massachusetts State Police responded to the parking lot of the Fairhaven Walmart at Commons Way for reports of individuals fighting. As state and local police arrived, the people involved in the fighting began to scatter, leading at least one officer …

“On March 14th at approximately 1:30 AM, units responded to a group fight in the area of Court St./Emerson St. Prior to police arrival, a vehicle fled the scene and was later observed traveling at a high rate of speed, south on County St. It was then discovered that the …

“A 33-year-old New Bedford narcotics trafficker was sentenced to serve two to three years in state prison last week, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III announced. Randall Pollard pled guilty in Fall River Superior Court to indictments charging him with Trafficking Cocaine, Possession with Intent to Distribute MDMA, …