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At approximately 8:30 p.m. Monday, Massachusetts State Police Troopers assigned to the Commonwealth Interstate Narcotics Reduction Enforcement Team-West (CINRET), the Massachusetts State Police Gang Unit, along with Holyoke Police and numerous other State Police units and arrested two men on illegal firearms and narcotics charges in Holyoke. The arrests followed …

The City of New Bedford has received four new applications for recreational marijuana businesses in New Bedford: Metro Harvest, Inc. (based out of Bridgewater, MA) Proposed site in New Bedford: 606 Tarkiln Hill Road, New Bedford Solar Therapeutics (based out of Somerset, MA) Proposed site in New Bedford: 525 Church …

The New Bedford Police Department received grant funding from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security (EOPSS) to increase seat belt enforcement patrols as part of the national Click It or Ticket campaign taking place May 13th-June 2nd. The New Bedford police will be joined by the Massachusetts State …

Mayor Mitchell submitting an order to the City Council for the City of New Bedford to accept a donation of an original ticket booth from the Lincoln Park Amusement Park in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, restored and given by John Nicolaci, Jr. The booth was restored to working condition at the …

Chief Joseph Perkins reports that the Middleborough Police Department arrested and charged a woman with selling fentanyl and other drugs Tuesday afternoon. RAKEL OLAFSDOTTIR, AGE 28, OF MIDDLEBOROUGH was charged with: · Possession to Distribute a Class A Drug (Fentanyl) · Possession to Distribute a Class B Drug (Percocet) · …

New Bedford High School Concert Band earned First Place in Division AA at the Music in the Parks Festival, held in Middletown, New Jersey, and Six Flags Great Adventure and Safari Park in Jackson, New Jersey. The band garnered a rating of “Excellent” in the competition. This is the second …

Bristol County District Attorney Thomas M. Quinn III, joined by local, state and federal law enforcement partners from the region, today held a press conference to announce the results of a year-long undercover investigation into a complex fentanyl trafficking ring operating in and around New Bedford. The extensive investigation, dubbed …

On Saturday, May 3, 2019, New Bedford Police Detectives Jason Gangi and Brian Rei were on patrol near Covell Street and Belleville Avenue, when they overheard a broadcast from The New Bedford Police Department’s Communication Division that an armed robbery had just occurred at Gas Express, located at 52 Tarkiln …

On Saturday, May 4th, E-9 was dispatched to a home on Acushnet Ave. for a medical call involving a patient with a cardiac history complaining of dizziness and fatigue. While assessing the patient, our single gas carbon monoxide sensor attached to the primary medical bag began sounding and we received …

This is a FREE basketball clinic at New Bedford High School for all New Bedford students in grade 2-grade 7 (ages 7 – 13). This will be a great opportunity for our youth to become familiar with the high school basketball program while providing our high school student-athletes an opportunity …