FRAMINGHAM – A homeless man was charged with assault after he hit a man on two separate occasions Thursday, authorities said. The victim was taken to the hospital after each assault.Police arrested Joseph D. Spencer, 30, at 9:30 p.m., after the second assault, in which he used a tree branch to beat the victim, prosecutor Tim Cochrane said Friday during Spencer’s Framingham District Court arraignment.Police went to the downtown Tedeschi’s after receiving a [...]
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Framingham: Man charged with assault using tree branch
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Police: Framingham woman drunk, crashes into car 4 times
FRAMINGHAM – A woman whose blood alcohol level was nearly four times the legal limit, crashed her car into the same vehicle four times before driving away, authorities said.Police arrested Mary Beltran, 27, of Framingham, at 2:15 p.m., about 45 minutes after the 1:30 p.m. crash on Kendall Street.Just before the accident, Beltran drove her car up onto the curb behind another car, according to a report filed in Framingham District Court on Friday.The owner of [...]
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Framingham shutters pizza shop whose owner is linked to police standoff
FRAMINGHAM — Public health officials found “excessive filth,” blocked sinks and evidence of rodent activity inside the pizza shop where a police standoff unfolded last week.According to paperwork on file with the town, Framingham police contacted the Health Department to request an inspection at Slice of New York on Edgell Road following a July 20 confrontation at the shop.Owner Justin Breakspear allegedly fled to the roof of the building after firing [...]
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Police search for suspect in Callahan State Park assault
FRAMINGHAM - Framingham Police are searching Callahan State Park this afternoon for a man suspected of grabbing a woman from behind and then throwing her to the ground, according to a posting on the department's Facebook page.A woman around 4:45 p.m. reported that a man wearing yellow shorts, a blue tank top and a black backpack assaulted her and took off in the area of the Pipeline Trail, police said in the posting. Police were searching the park and surrounding area using [...]
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Facebook post calls out suspects in Bellingham Walmart gaming console swap
BELLINGHAM — Police are searching for three people suspected of stealing a videogame console from Walmart by returning a used console in place of a new one.According to Bellingham Police post on Facebook Tuesday, a man and a woman, driving a silver Acura sedan, purchased a gaming console on July 12.Surveillance photos posted to Facebook show a man wearing what appears to be a red Chicago Bulls hat and white t-shirt accompanied by a woman wearing a blue tank top and [...]
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Framingham: Police search for suspect in Callahan State Park assault
FRAMINGHAM - Framingham Police searched Callahan State Park Sunday afternoon for a man suspected of grabbing a woman from behind and then throwing her to the ground, according to a posting on the department's Facebook page.A woman around 4:45 p.m. reported that a man wearing yellow shorts, a blue tank top and a black backpack assaulted her and took off in the area of the Pipeline Trail, police said in the posting.Police searched the park and surrounding area using tracking dogs. [...]
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Facebook post calls out suspects in Bellingham Walmart gaming console swap
Police are searching for several suspects thought to have stolen a game console from Walmart by returning a used gaming console in place of a new one.According to Bellingham Police post on Facebook Tuesday, a man and a woman, driving a silver Acura sedan, purchased a gaming console on July 12.Surveillance photos posted to Facebook show a man wearing what appears to be a red Chicago Bulls hat and white t-shirt with a woman wearing a blue tank top and shorts.Another photo [...]
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Framingham Police increase patrols after Callahan State Park assault
FRAMINGHAM — Police have increased patrols around Callahan State Park after a report of a man grabbing a woman from behind and then throwing her to the ground Sunday afternoon. The suspect is still at at large. The woman, who was walking her dog, reported the assault shortly after 4:20 p.m. Sunday.Lt. Michael [...]
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Natick man arrested in Callahan State Park assault in Framingham
FRAMINGHAM – Police have arrested a Natick man they said assaulted a woman as she walked her dog at Callahan State Park on Sunday.Police on Monday charged Paul W.Shkreli, 29, of Bass Terrace, with indecent assault and battery on a person older than 14, assault and battery and annoying and accosting a person of the opposite sex.Authorities say the woman was walking her dog around 4:45 p.m. when Shkreli grabbed her and threw her to the ground. The woman screamed and [...]
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Hudson police, DPW move into new building
After more than a year of construction, the new Department of Public Works and police building is up and running. The Municipal Drive structure, which has about 30,000-square feet of floor space, became home to both departments after it was determined needed repairs to the former police and DPW buildings were too costly.Crews began clearing land last winter for the $14-million project. DPW workers moved into the building in May and police began the complicated [...]
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Police: Brawl breaks out at underage birthday party in Hopkinton
HOPKINTON — An unsupervised birthday party for a 17-year-old girl inside a townhouse off Lumber Street early Sunday morning turned into an all out brawl with police having to use a Taser on two people, and an officer being assaulted. Police went to the Modera apartment and townhouse complex around 12:15 a.m. on a report of a large group of "young people" walking through the parking lot and appeared to be under the influence of alcohol, according to a police [...]
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Framingham park assault suspect placed on house arrest
FRAMINGHAM – A Natick man grabbed a stranger’s buttocks as she took her dog for a walk through Callahan State Park on Sunday, before shoving her to the ground and forcibly kissing her, a prosecutor said Tuesday in Framingham District Court.Paul W. Shkreli, 29, only let the woman go as she screamed for help, her dog barked and she elbowed him, prosecutor Rob Meltzer said during Shkreli’s arraignment.The woman, who is in her 20s, told police she did not know [...]
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Police charge man in Framingham crash linked to heroin
FRAMINGHAM – A homeless man was on heroin when he crashed his car on Monday and then fled from the back of an ambulance that took him to the hospital, authorities said.Justin Turchetta, 36, also gave police two fake names in an effort to avoid arrest after the 7:36 a.m. crash on Pleasant Street, according to a police report filed in Framingham District Court on Tuesday.Police went to Pleasant Street and found a Honda CRV that witnesses say crossed two lanes of traffic, [...]
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Local reaction: Be aware, but not afraid
FRAMINGHAM - Diana Lee and Carly Reardon discussed the Sunday assault of a woman at Callahan State Park, but the incident didn't stop the pair from running along the park's trails on Tuesday."I was pretty freaked out when (I first heard about it)," Lee said. "At the same time, I trusted and hoped it was a one-time incident."Police and a court prosecutor said a woman walking her dog at the park shortly before 4:30 p.m. Sunday was pushed to the ground and forcibly kissed by a man. [...]
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Southborough police use Taser, pepper spray to subdue man
SOUTHBOROUGH — Police officers used a Taser and pepper spray to subdue a combative man at the Southboro Motor Lodge Friday night.Police went to 50 Turnpike Road at 7:15 p.m. after a family member reported that a 29-year-old Framingham man was having "a psychological issue, and possibly off of his medication," according to a press release. When Sgt. James DeLuca and Officer William Woodford arrived, the man was agitated and sweating profusely. [...]
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DA: Framingham man punched, kicked woman
FRAMINGHAM – A Framingham man punched and kicked a woman on Tuesday after she refused his offer of crack cocaine and sex, authorities said.To catch the woman, Richard Brown, 57, rode his bike as she ran for help after the 10:30 p.m. assault, police said.The victim told police that she had been staying in his apartment and Brown became angry when she declined his advances, prosecutor Leigh Ann Johnson said.“He punched her in the jaw,” said Johnson. [...]
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Wayland: Settlement reached over Rice Road subdivision lawsuit
WAYLAND - A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit over a planned Rice Road subdivision.Last year, several neighbors had sued the Planning Board and the Greenaways, who own the property, over the board's approval of the project. The sides reached a settlement and the Middlesex Superior Court case was dismissed last month, according to court documents."We were happy to resolve the appeal," said Thomas Greenaway. "We did agree to some further restrictions that we all thought [...]
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Framingham woman charged with attacking boyfriend, two others
FRAMINGHAM – A Framingham woman threw a man out of his wheelchair on Tuesday, bit her boyfriend and attacked a female friend in an incident caught on video, authorities said.Police arrested Ashley Kelly, 24, at 10:15 p.m. outside the Rte. 9 apartment where the assault occurred, prosecutor Leigh Ann Johnson said during Kelly’s Framingham District Court arraignment on Wednesday.On Tuesday, police went to 1630 Worcester Road after a woman called 911. [...]
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Ashland K9 Dax recovering after surgery
ASHLAND - Police dog Dax is recovering after spinal surgery, according to Ashland police.“Sgt. Alberini, his handler, noticed he appeared to be in a little bit of pain,” Lt. Richard Briggs said Thursday.An MRI at Tufts Veterinary Hospital revealed Dax had a compressed spine, which Briggs said the German shepherd could have sustained while working. He underwent surgery Wednesday, and will be able to return to work after several weeks’ recovery. [...]
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Michelle Carter sentenced to 15 months for role in boyfriend's suicide
TAUNTON — A Lakeville woman who encouraged her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself in dozens of text messages and told him to "get back in" a truck filled with toxic gas was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter.Michelle Carter, now 20, was convicted in June by a judge who said her final instruction to Conrad Roy III caused his death. Carter was 17 [...]
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