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Mass Man’s 5-Month Crime Spree, Including Home Invasion, Ends With 29 Charges: Police
A Central Massachusetts man’s summer crime spree has come to an end after police said he racked up nearly 30 new criminal charges over five months.
Gavin Barszcz, 30, of Webster, is accused of starting a run of crimes in April, when officers caught him breaking into two vehicles overnight, police said. Officers found stolen keys and cash in his pockets. He was charged with two counts of breaking and entering, three counts of receiving stolen property, possession of burglary tools, and trespassing, authorities said.
Weeks later, Webster Officer Nicholas Trinque took a report …
Mass Man Guilty Of Kidnapping, Throwing 7-Year-Old Off I-290 Bridge: DA
A Worcester County jury has found Joshua Hubert guilty of kidnapping a 7-year-old girl, strangling her, and throwing her off an I-290 bridge into Lake Quinsigamond, authorities said.
Hubert, 43, of Worcester, was convicted of two counts of attempted murder, one count of strangulation, and one count of kidnapping a child on Thursday, Sept. 18. He was acquitted of two counts of aggravated rape in the 2017 attack, the Worcester County District Attorney said.
He faces up to 35 years in prison when Judge Karin Bell sentences him on Oct. 3, authorities said.
Last week, the vict…
