Dugan Arnett

Jul 4, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Dugan Arnett

The Bristol County District Attorney’s Office has dropped criminal charges against a New Bedford man accused of drug trafficking, a month after a judge excoriated a former New Bedford Police detective for “gross misconduct” involving his use of a purported confidential informant. The charges against Miguel Martinez, 46, were quietly dismissed last week during a hearing inside the Bristol County Superior Courthouse in Fall River.

Feb 21, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Dugan Arnett

The seventh-grader was naked in the photo “from head to toe.”Berner knew that his son — whose learning disabilities required special education assistance — could be susceptible to bullying, overly trusting and easily coerced. The family had been warned that the differences between the boy and his peers would grow more pronounced as he got older, and that those differences could make him a target. Still, a nude photo?

Jan 15, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Dana Gerber |Dugan Arnett

But in recent months, all of it started to slip away. It was, after all, a house of cards. The mansion had been bought almost entirely with borrowed money — a $3.8 million mortgage taken from its builder, not a traditional bank, and due in full in just two years. By 2021, unpaid interest and fines had grown, and Rick Kamal sought to restructure their mortgage. A foreclosure followed. Finally, last month, came the court order: The Kamals were to be evicted.

Nov 8, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Travis Andersen |Dugan Arnett

A New Bedford District Court judge has resigned “with regret” from the bench, according to a letter he recently sent to Governor Maura Healey. “With regret, and effective Friday, November 10, 2023, I am resigning from my position as an Associate Justice of the District Court,” Judge Douglas J. Darnbrough wrote in the two-line letter, a portion of which was redacted in the copy that Healey’s office provided to the Globe. The letter was dated Nov. 2.

Oct 28, 2023 | bostonglobe.com | Dugan Arnett

Taylor Secor was putting her kids to bed. She wrested her cellphone from her 3-year-old, who’d accidentally opened the messages app. A new message appeared. Tumbling practice ended at a local gym, and Ranissa Sirois loaded her fourth-grader and 7-month-old into the back seat of her car. Sirois heard a siren. More sirens. She pulled onto Main Street, and found herself engulfed in a sea of lights and sirens — police cars, firetrucks, ambulances, seemingly screaming from all directions at once.