Find Your Daily Voice
59°
Decorated Stoughton Police Officer Known For His 'Dedication' Suddenly Dies
The Stoughton Police Department is mourning the sudden death of one of their brothers in blue, Chief Donna McNamara announced.
Christopher Davis, age 42, died while off-duty while at his Brockton home around 9:45 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 31, McNamara said. Davis was a 17-year-old veteran with the department.
"Officer Davis's kindness, bravery, dedication and devotion to his family, friends, the men and women of the Stoughton Police Department and the Stoughton community will be greatly missed," McNamara said. "Please keep his family, friends and the members of the Stoughton Police Departme…
Federal Agents Remove Head Of Violent Mass Drug Gang, Sentence Leader To 19 Years: DOJ
Federal agents celebrated this week after the man they said led a violent gang that helped flood southeastern Massachusetts drugs was sentenced to nearly two decades in prison.
Djuna Goncalves, 36, who pleaded guilty last year to a laundry list of drug and weapons charges, learned his fate this week, the US Attorney's Office said.
DEA agents alleged that Goncalves ran a gang out of Brockton that moved in fentanyl, cocaine, crack, heroin, oxycodone, and violence. Goncalves ran the group with his two brothers — Cody and Tony Goncalves, authorities said. Federal agen…
South Shore Drug Dealers Come Down From High After 11 Arrests: Attorney General
Police seized hundreds of grams of fentanyl and crack cocaine, guns, ammunition, and $26,000 in drug money after busting six stash houses belonging to a Brockton drug trafficking ring, announced Attorney Genera Maura Healey.
Eleven people were arrested on Tuesday, Dec. 20 in the takedown of the Brockton drug organization, the AG's office announced on Thursday, Dec. 22. The alleged drug dealers had been distributing narcotics in Plymouth, Norfolk, and Bristol counties.
ELEVEN INDIVIDUALS ARRESTED AND ARRAIGNED FOLLOWING TAKEDOWN OF MAJOR SOUTH SHORE DRUG TRAFFICKING ORGANIZATIONhttps://…
Recent College Grad Killed In Thanksgiving Day Crash In South Massachusetts
A recent college graduate who was gearing up to take on the world had his life tragically cut short this past week.
Holdjer Decarvalho, age 22, of Fall River, was killed in a single-vehicle crash on I-195 in Westport on Thanksgiving morning, Thursday, Nov. 24, the Bristol County District Attorney's Office reports.
Decarvalho, who was the only person in the car, was pronounced dead at the scene after his vehicle burst into flames, the office continues.
"You were ready to start your life and take on this crazy, massive, unfair world by storm and make it your own," Decarvalho's sister Chue…
Quincy Man 'Tired Of Swiping' Allegedly Kidnaps, Sexually Abuses Woman: Report
A Quincy man is facing several charges after allegedly kidnapping a woman at a train station, sexually abusing her and dumping her in a Brockton parking lot over the weekend, reports said.
Christian Lynch, age 26, allegedly kidnapped the woman at Wollaston Station in Quincy around 7 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 12 while she was walking to work.
Lynch allegedly duct-taped the woman’s mouth, hands and feet and started sexually abusing her in his car, Boston25 said citing an MBTA Transit Police investigative report.
The woman, believed to be in her 60s, was then repeatedly strangled and sexually …
