Wareham man arrested for residential B&E-placing a person in fear
DARTMOUTH – A Wareham man was arrested for felony breaking and entering during the daytime-placing a person in fear after police responded to an early-morning house-break call and found him in the...
View ArticleWareham man charged with possession of child pornography
BOSTON – A Wareham man was arrested and charged Tuesday with possession of child pornography.David St. Jacques, 56, was charged by criminal complaint with one count of possession of child pornography....
View ArticlePolice investigating former Wareham man’s death as a homicide
WINTER PARK, Fla. – A 20-year-old former Wareham and Plymouth man’s shooting death is being investigated as a homicide.Deputies with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office responded to Cody Toumala’s...
View ArticleWareham man held on $50,000 cash bail on fentanyl-trafficking charge
WAREHAM – A Wareham man was ordered held on $50,000 cash bail following his arraignment in Wareham District Court Wednesday on charges of trafficking in more than 10 grams of fentanyl, possession of a...
View ArticleTwo Wareham residents charged with conspiracy to distribute fentanyl...
BOSTON – Two Wareham residents were arrested today and charged in connection with selling fentanyl, including to a 42-year-old man who died of an apparent overdose.Troy Jones, 40, and Kayla...
View ArticleKingston man accused of trafficking cocaine
PLYMOUTH – State Police accused a Kingston man of trafficking drugs Tuesday after finding bags of suspected cocaine in his car after a traffic stop off Samoset Street.Charles Thompson, 59, of Kingston,...
View ArticleRegistered nurse pleads guilty to drug diversion
BOSTON – A Dighton registered nurse pleaded guilty last week in federal court in Boston to drug tampering.Marietta Strickland, 61, pleaded guilty to one count of tampering with a consumer product,...
View ArticleAll’s well that ends well on smoky grenade call
WAREHAM – The State Police Bomb Squad was called in for an assist when a smoke grenade stored in an outdoor shed inadvertently discharged Friday afternoon. Wareham Police and Onset Fire also responded....
View ArticleHouse-warming: A.D. Makepeace Co. provides house bound for demolition to...
WAREHAM – In a case of waste-not, want-not, A.D. Makepeace Co. offered a vacant house on Charlotte Furnace Road destined for demolition to the Wareham Fire Dept. for training purposes.And the WFD took...
View ArticleOnset Firefighters knock down second-floor house fire in 15 minutes
WAREHAM – Onset Firefighters knocked down a second-floor fire at a house at 4 South Water St. Wednesday morning within 15 minutes of arrival on scene.Onset Fire received a call on the fire at 11:22...
View ArticleWareham Police Association raises $5,000 for Cops For Kids With Cancer
WAREHAM - The Wareham Police Association announced its donation of $5,000 to Cops For Kids With Cancer on Oct. 2. During this trying year for everyone, the Wareham Police Association was still able to...
View ArticleTwo former eBay employees plead guilty to cyberstalking Natick couple with...
BOSTON – Two former eBay, Inc. employees pleaded guilty Thursday to their roles in a cyberstalking campaign targeting the editor and publisher of a newsletter that eBay executives viewed as critical of...
View ArticleJustice Dept. prevails in class action seeking release of Plymouth County...
BOSTON – The U.S. Attorney’s Office prevailed in a habeas class action brought by law firms WilmerHale and Todd & Weld LLP seeking the release of over 150 detainees awaiting trial on federal...
View ArticleSouth Yarmouth man sentenced for fentanyl possession
BOSTON – A South Yarmouth man was sentenced Wednesday for possession with intent to distribute fentanyl and crack cocaine.Roosevelt Wilkins, 34, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G....
View Article80-year-old Wareham man sentenced to five years for cocaine-trafficking
PLYMOUTH – A Wareham man pleaded guilty and was sent to state prison on charges that he trafficked cocaine and other narcotics, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz announced...
View ArticleDennis firefighter charged with rape, placed on paid leave
DENNIS — A firefighter/paramedic with the Dennis Fire Department is on paid administrative leave after being charged with rape and videotaping an unsuspecting nude person.Myles Heselton, 30, pleaded...
View ArticleAG Healey sues national addiction treatment center chain with office in Wareham
BOSTON – Attorney General Maura Healey has announced that her office has sued a national addiction treatment center chain for submitting millions of dollars in false claims to the state’s Medicaid...
View ArticleWareham and state police arrest fugitive wanted in Georgia for robbery
WAREHAM – Wareham and state police arrested a fugitive wanted in Georgia for robbery found hiding in a home’s dirt crawl space.Wareham Police Detectives, along with a trooper assigned to the...
View ArticlePurported bird watcher arrested by Wareham Police for heroin possession
WAREHAM – Wareham Police said a Bourne man who claimed he was bird watching was arrested after suspected heroin and drug paraphernalia were found in his car.Police received a call about a suspicious...
View ArticleRhode Island man charged with sex trafficking
BOSTON – A Woonsocket, R.I. man has been charged with trafficking victims to engage in prostitution.Ronald Hall, 48, was indicted on Oct. 28 on five counts of sex trafficking by force, fraud or...
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