Thursday, October 11, 2012
The city's top brass has put in a "crisis re-entry plan" for inmates released from prison as a result of the JP State Drug Lab scandal.
With as many as 600 convicted drug dealers up for early release from prison, city officials say they have a plan to limit the damage to Boston's neighborhoods. "This is an emergency," Mayor Thomas Menino said in a joint press conference with Boston Police Chief Ed Davis and Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley. Menino outlined a plan for Boston to deal with the fallout from the alleged actions of a "rogue chemist" at the JP Drug Lab who may have tainted samples in thousands of drug cases. "We are concerned about the large number of individuals who will be released from state prison," Menino said, "with no plan for transition back into society, and just as concerned about those who may return to a lifestyle that can cause turmoil on …
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Boston City Hall
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Friday, October 5, 2012
On Friday, two alleged criminals went free and another had a prosecution against him dropped because evidence against them had been handled by a chemist accused of tainting thousands of samples at at Jamaica Plain lab.
More defendants got out on bail or had cases dropped on Friday as shocks from the actions of a "rogue chemist" continue to shake the justice system. The state is culling through 34,000 cases where drug evidence was handled by chemist Annie Dookhan. She's accused of tainting drug samples during years of employment at the State Drug Lab in Jamaica Plain. On Friday the state cycled 19 defendants through one courtroom at Boston Municipal Court. In a process pointedly criticized by Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley as a waste of time and resources, few of the cases turned out to have any link to Dookhan. Only five of the 19, according to a Globe count, were handled by the chemist at the shuttered Jamaica Plain lab. Two men went free …
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24 New Chardon St, Boston, MA
Edward Brooke Courthouse
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In a hastily-called court session Friday morning to address cases potentially tainted by the State Drug Lab scandal, six of the first seven cases turned out to have nothing to do with chemist Annie Dookhan.
Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley pointedly criticized a court session Friday morning as a waste of time and resources. The session was to address 19 cases with supposed links to State Drug Lab chemist Annie Dookhan. She is accused of tainting evidence in 34,000 cases over many years. Six of the first seven cases called Friday turned out to have nothing to do with Dookhan, however. "The leadership of this court should be embarrassed," Conley said to a scrum of media during a court recess. Conley was careful to say that the judge in charge on Friday, Judge Mary Ann Driscoll, is not to blame for the court administration's bad planning. Conley said he has spoken with Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and Boston Police Commissioner Ed …
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24 New Chardon St, Boston, MA
Edward Brooke Courthouse
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Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley says low-level pushers don't stand to benefit most from the JP drug lab "disaster." He says that honor goes to hardened criminals moving lots of drugs or those with violent histories.
If you're accused of a drug crime, and the evidence against you was handled by the State Drug Lab in JP, it might not mean "get-out-of-jail free." But for defendants it sometimes means "get-out-of-jail for lower bail." On Thursday, a convicted rapist who faces new drug charges was due back in court. His bail had been lowered because chemist Annie Dookhan — accused of tainting evidence in thousands of cases — had tested evidence against him. The man, 52-year-old Marcus Pixley, skipped court and is on the lam, a fugitive from justice. Pixley, who was held on $5,000 bail in connection to a South End drug possession arrest, had his bail reduced to $1,000, which he posted. A judge ordered the reduction because samples in the case were tested …
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305 South St, Jamaica Plain, MA
State labs
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Monday, July 16, 2012
Prosecutors say Jose Ortega, a coach for Boston Broncos youth baseball, which practices and plays in JP, tried to "entice" a young player into sex. He is not charged with touching the player, however.
A coach with Boston Broncos youth baseball has been accused of enticement of young players, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. Jose Ortega, of Roslindale, is a coach with the youth baseball program, according to Jake Wark of the District Attorney's office. Boston Bronco players can often be seen practicing and playing at the English High field or the field behind the Hennigan School. Ortega is not charged with touching any of the players, Wark said in an email. "Boston Police detectives assigned to the Crimes Against Children Unit arrested Ortega last night amid an ongoing investigation into allegations of improper communication with multiple young players," Wark wrote Monday morning. Further details emerged from …
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The English High School
144 McBride St, Jamaica Plain, MA
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Monday, July 9, 2012
Prosecutors announced a wide-ranging take down of a drug network centered on the Boylston Street Gang. That group's feud with the Mozart Street Gang has been at the heart of much Jamaica Plain violence.
Prosecutors say JP's Boylston Street Gang had evolved into a high-level drug operation that was largely taken down Monday in a series of raids. Boston Police and FBI agents executed 16 search and seizure warrants in Boston, Milton and Canton on Monday morning. Fourteen arrests were made, and other charges may follow, prosecutors said in a statement. The raids, coming after 13 months of investigation, strike a blow at the Boylston Street gang. That group is perhaps best known in Jamaica Plain for its ongoing feud with the Mozart Street crew — bad blood that caused, among other violent incidents, the shootings and stabbings at Same Old Place in November 2010 that left three men dead. Here's how Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley put…
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Same Old Place
662 Centre St, Jamaica Plain, MA
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Thursday, July 5, 2012
A Jamaica Plain man has been arraigned on charges he was drunk and in possession of a loaded gun.
Police say they found a loaded handgun in the backpack of a drunken Jamaica Plain man who allegedly fled on foot from a wreck in the Fenway. Scott M. Devlin, 28 — who also has an address in Fairhaven — was a passenger in a Ford F-150 when it smashed into a parked car on Park Drive early Thursday morning, prosecutors said in a press release. Devlin had a valid license for the gun, prosecutors said. Devlin and the driver allegedly ran away on foot. Passersby called State Police and Boston Police caught men matching the descriptions given. Devlin was arraigned Thursday in Roxbury District Court on a charge of carrying a loaded firearm while under the influence of liquor. He was released and is scheduled to return to court in September. The …
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Park Dr & Fenway, Boston, MA
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Friday, May 11, 2012
Luis Prieto, 19, of Hyde Park and Niko Flores, 17, were charged in the Dec. 11 shooting, in which a young man was wounded in the arm and leg.
The District Attorney's office told the Gazette that two men have been charged in the Dec. 11, 2011 shooting on South Street. The shooting, in the 200-block of South Street, left a young man wounded in the arm and leg. Police charged Luis Prieto, 19, of Hyde Park and Niko Flores, 17, of JP. Flores had previously been in the news for allegedly chucking crack and a gun through a window as police came through the front door on a warrant. For all the details about the shooting charges, please visit the Gazette's story.
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Thursday, February 9, 2012
Prosecutors say they found "disturbing, violent images" of children engaged in sex acts with adults on a work computer the man used.
A Needham man was in court Thursday to face accusations of possession of child pornography. The alleged porn was found on the work computer at the man's job in Jamaica Plain. Prosecutors say Keith L. Millan, 57, had "disturbing, violent images" of children engaged in sex acts with adults. The images were allegedly on a computer the man used in his work with a Boston property management firm, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office. While the DA did not specify the property management firm, a Keith Millan is listed on LinkedIn as working at Leeder Management Co. of Brookline. The DA's office told Universal Hub the man worked in JP. Leeder manages Perkins Square Apartments in JP. According to prosecutors, the man's …
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West Roxbury Division of the Boston Municipal Court
445 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA
Millas was arraigned on Feb. 9, 2012 at this location.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Prosecutors accepted a guilty plea to manslaughter instead of prosecuting for first-degree murder, in part because key witnesses refused to cooperate.
The second of two gang members who attacked and killed an innocent JP 13-year-old as he walked home pleaded guilty to manslaughter today. Nurudeen Alabi, 21, was originally charged with first-degree murder. Witnesses' refusal to cooperate forced the state to seek the lesser charge, according to District Attorney Dan Conley. Alabi was sentenced to 17 years for manslaughter in the death of Luis Gerena Jr., who was attacked and riddled with five bullets on Jan. 12, 2007 on basketball courts near the Jackson Square T. Alabi's co-defendant, Darell Rodrigues, had previously been sentenced to 14-15 years on manslaughter and other charges. Alabi changed his plea to guilty today, just as opening statements were scheduled to begin in his trial in …
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3 Pemberton Sq, Boston, MA
Superior Court
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Jackson Square station (MBTA)
240 Centre St., Jamaica Plain, MA
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Deborah Richmond
1:06 pm on Friday, February 1, 2013
It's being committed incivil suits too. It all comes down to, what some will do for MONEY and their own reputation. This has going on for decades and continues aa no one will step up and take the inciative to investigate and prosecute the PROFFESSIONAL wrong doers! more ›