FRAMINGHAM - With his child in the back seat of his car and police surrounding him, Cleodson Darocha did not want to be arrested in connection with a Phelps Road home invasion. But using his Volkswagen to strike a State Police cruiser and nearly strike a cop just added to his troubles.Darocha rammed his car into an unmarked cruiser around 4 p.m. Wednesday in a 1550 Worcester Road parking lot, authorities said.State and local police were conducting surveillance when they saw [...]
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Framingham police make arrest in Phelps Road home invasion
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FSU offers $5K to catch 'hateful coward' writing racist graffiti
FRAMINGHAM — Trying to get to find and punish the person writing racist messages targeting minorities, Framingham State University has boosted its reward to $5,000 for information that leads to those responsible.Several students posted the latest hateful message on multiple social media platforms which uses slurs directed toward an African-American student and also references distaste for the Black Student Union."See you next semester," the message on the doors reads in [...]
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Two indicted in 2016 Westborough death
Two people have been indicted in the October 2016 fatal car crash on Westborough's stretch of the Massachusetts Turnpike.Twenty-six-year-old Ashley Sheehan was killed when the car she was in veered off the road and hit a rock ledge at 1:30 a.m. Oct. 29, police said. Sheehan was ejected from the SUV and landed in the road, where she was hit by multiple vehicles. Three other passengers were also ejected, police said, and sustained serious injuries.Friday, a Worcester County Grand [...]
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Framingham Police probe officer’s conduct in texting case
FRAMINGHAM — An investigation into explicit photographs of a local teenager being exchanged by cellphone led Framingham police to question the conduct of one of their own officers.A department spokeswoman confirmed Friday that police conducted an internal probe into Officer Peter Tessicini’s actions after his name surfaced in connection with the case.Lt. Patti Grigas declined to comment on the department’s findings, or on whether Tessicini [...]
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Sudbury ordered to pay attorneys’ fees of $75K in 40B case
SUDBURY – In a scathing decision that accused the town of acting “with an absence of good faith,” a Land Court judge on Monday ordered Sudbury to pay more than $75,000 toward attorneys’ fees of two parties it sued in an attempt to block a 250-unit housing development in town center.Justice Howard Speiche [...]
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Framingham 19-year-old faces second OUI after crash
FRAMINGHAM – A Framingham woman not old enough to legally drink alcohol is facing her second drunken driving charge after she crashed her car into a utility pole on Tuesday before leaving the scene with a friend, authorities said.Police arrested April LaPorte, 19, when she returned to the scene of the 3 a.m. crash on Pleasant Street, prosecutor Andrew Boulanger said during LaPorte’s Framingham District Court arraignment.Police had gone to Pleasant Street for a [...]
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Two arrested in bottle, knife assault in Framingham
FRAMINGHAM – An argument that began over a spill on Monday led to a man being hit in the head with a bottle and threatened with a knife, a prosecutor said Tuesday in Framingham District Court.Police arrested David Guante, 27, of Natick, and Fernando Corporan, 34, of New York City, on Monday after the 3:45 a.m. assault on Dennison Avenue, prosecutor Andrew Boulanger said during their arraignments.Police went to the apartment after a 911 call from a resident claiming, [...]
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Four arrested after loud gathering in Framingham
FRAMINGHAM – Police arrested three men and a woman on Monday after police tried to disperse a loud gathering on Second Street.Police arrested Jonathan Reyes, 22, and Gabriel Vazquez, 21, both homeless, as well as Antonio Maysonet, 26, and his sister Maria Maysonet, 24, both of Framingham, at 2:10 a.m.Officers were in the area searching for a report of a suspicious person. Although they did not find the person, they heard a man and woman yelling from a Second Street [...]
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DA: Framingham man breaks into barber shop, steals phones, wallet
FRAMINGHAM – A Framingham man broke into a Rte. 9 barbershop and stole all of the employees’ cellphones while they worked, authorities said.Police arrested Kevin Assis, 24, on Wednesday at 6 p.m., charging him with the Dec. 22 burglary at Knockouts, 328 Worcester Road, prosecutor Alison Kubas said Thursday during Assis’ Framingham District Court arraignment.While the barbers were working in the front of the store, Assis broke into a rear door of the [...]
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Man arrested in crashed stolen car in Framingham
FRAMINGHAM – A homeless man claimed he had found a stolen car Thursday that was abandoned after a crash and was simply bringing the car to the police department when police pulled him over, authorities said.However, police believe Edward Griffin stole the 2016 Toyota sedan before crashing it on Cedar Street, police spokeswoman Lt. Patricia Grigas said.An officer on Waushakum Street saw a car driving toward him with a broken headlight. As the officer got closer, he [...]
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Boston woman stole nearly $3K worth of clothes at Natick Mall
NATICK – A Boston woman and an unknown accomplice worked together on Wednesday to steal nearly $3,000 worth of clothing from the Neiman Marcus at the Natick Mall.Although her accomplice outran store security, Tamira Anne Dyette, 19, was not as quick, and security caught her as she tried to flee the mall at 7:29 p.m. with $2,950 worth of stolen goods, police spokeswoman Lt. Cara Rossi said on Thursday.Store security saw Dyette and the other woman enter the store and head [...]
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Fire guts home on Jordan Road in Franklin
FRANKLIN - Firefighters battled both a raging blaze and sub-freezing temperatures Sunday as a fire gutted a Jordan Road house.A resident of the home - at 76 Jordan Road - was taken to Milford Regional Medical Center to be treated for smoke inhalation, said Fire Chief Gary McCarraher. The call first came in at 9:49 a.m.Passers-by Barbara Steele and Gina Harrold said they were walking through the neighborhood Sunday morning - as they do most weekends - when, after passing the [...]
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Families displaced after Holliston fire
HOLLISTON – A person trying to thaw frozen pipes in a multi-family building caused a fire Monday afternoon, fire officials said.There were no injuries in the smoky fire that started about 2 p.m. at 48 North Mill St. though fire crews had difficulty fighting the blaze because of temperatures in the single digits and sub-zero wind chills. Fire crews also had difficulty finding a hydrant because they were buried in snowbanks."The property owner was working with the [...]
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Police: 'I'm drunk, I'm sorry,' Milford man says after Framingham crash
FRAMINGHAM – A Milford man told anyone who would listen that he was drunk when he caused a three-car crash on Rte. 9 Road on Saturday, police said.Peter Mooers, 42, repeatedly apologized to police and to the other drivers after the 12:25 a.m. crash near 1257 Worcester Road, police spokeswoman Lt. Patricia Grigas said Monday.Police went to a report of a three-vehicle crash and found Mooers still behind the wheel of his Kia sedan. It appeared his car had rear-ended a [...]
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Framingham man crashes car in front of police
FRAMINGHAM – A Framingham man crashed his car into a utility pole on Lake Avenue on Tuesday in front of police officers who were there, authorities sad.Ronald Thistle, 31, got out of his car and immediately walked over to police and gave them his automatic car starter after the 12:35 a.m. crash, police spokeswoman Lt. Patricia Grigas said.“He was wearing a T-shirt, shorts, and had no shoes on,” said Grigas. “It was zero degrees out. [...]
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Framingham crews make quick work of morning fire
FRAMINGHAM - Despite a handful of complications, firefighters put out a mid-morning fire at the Lord Chesterfield Apartments quickly and without injury."I thought it was going to be a long day in this weather," Fire Chief Joseph Hicks said.The fire began in a bedroom of a third-story corner apartment at 10 Greenview St., but fire officials are still investigating the cause.The resident who reported the fire told the building's rental office about it before the police or [...]
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Ashland Police: Framingham woman breaks in, trashes home
A Framingham woman trashed an Ashland man’s home, destroying portions of nearly every room, because she was angry at him, authorities said.Tami M. Touchette, 51, admitted to the Oct. 21 incident, saying she walked from her 26D Carlson Road home in Framingham to the man’s Prospect Street home in Ashland to trash his house, according to an Ashland Police report filed in Framingham District Court on Wednesday.That day, the man arrived home around 9 a.m. and [...]
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Woman begs Natick court judge to release her
A Worcester woman begged a Natick District Court judge on Wednesday not to hold her after Natick Police arrested her Tuesday and charged her with stealing from Neiman Marcus at the Natick Mall.Karen M. Barnard, 49, said she had no way to get any bail money and was afraid her car would disappear while she was being held on bail.“If you give me any kind of bail, there’s no one who can bail me out, I won’t be able to get out,” Barnard told Judge [...]
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New US Attorney Andrew Lelling favors 'discretion' in pot prosecution
BOSTON -- Less than a month since his Senate confirmation, U.S. Attorney Andrew Lelling may now be the person with the greatest ability to influence how the legal marijuana industry will take shape in Massachusetts.A 16-year veteran of the Justice Department, Lelling on Thursday was thrust to the forefront as the state works to implement a 2016 voter law that legalized marijuana for adult consumption when U.S. Attorney [...]
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Sessions: 'Return to the rule of law' in pot memo
Thursday's federal roll-back of an Obama-era, hands off approach to enforcing marijuana law has local advocates on edge."We’re in sort of a limbo period, which could be permanent," Massachusetts spokesman for the Marijuana Policy Project Jim Borghesani said. "We just don’t know what's going to happen next."Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded the informally named Cole Memo in a one-page memo of his own sent to the nation's federal prosecutors Thursday. The [...]
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