Kiera Mcdonald

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Kiera Mcdonald

Multiple small boats were found flipped upside down in the Charles River on Tuesday evening,Massachusetts State Police said. At 5:51 p.m., troopers responded after receiving a 911 call reporting the boats in the water, according to Trooper Brandon Doherty, a spokesperson for the State Police. “All parties were accounted for” at 6:06 p.m., Doherty said. It is unclear how many people were on the boats at the time of the incident. State Police deployed patrols and its Marine Unit to the scene, he said.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Kiera Mcdonald

A Dorchester man, who has a criminal record dating back to 1980, was charged after allegedly breaking into a Boston University student’s apartment and stealing a backpack full of electronicsfrom their room last summer, , prosecutors said Tuesday. James Williams, 62, was arraigned last week in Boston Municipal Court in Roxbury on charges of breaking and entering nighttime for felony and larceny over $1,200, Suffolk District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s office said in a statement.

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Kiera Mcdonald

Police identified two men on Tuesday who were found shot inside a home in Springfield earlier this month and later died at the hospital, according to Hampden District Attorney Anthony D. Gulluni’s office. Springfield residents Noe Martin, 55, and Justin Santiago, 35, were found suffering gunshot wounds inside a home on the 0 to 100 block of Hebron Street, prosecutors said in a statement. On April 2 at 5:40 a.m., police responded to reports of two gunshot victims at the home, the statement said.

3 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Kiera Mcdonald

A Chelmsford man was charged on Monday after he allegedly embezzled $328,500 from his mother who was injured when her home was destroyed by fire in 2019, according to Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan’s. officeEric Borghetti, 51, was arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court on five counts of embezzlement by a fiduciary, Ryan’s office said in a statement. Borghetti pleaded not guilty to all charges.

4 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Kiera Mcdonald

A Boston man has pleaded guilty to running an extortion scheme with former Massachusetts State Police troopers, where applicants received commercial licenses, without passing or taking the required tests, in exchange for bribes, officials said. Eric Mathison, 48, pleaded guilty on Friday to one count of conspiracy to commit extortion, according to a statement Monday from the Massachusetts US Attorney’s Office. He is scheduled for sentencing on June 13.