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A Massachusetts magician has been sentenced to more than six years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of transporting child pornography and illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place. Scott Jameson, a 47-year-old Sutton man who has worked more than two decades as a magician, appeared in U.S. District Court in Boston Thursday. The office of acting U.S....

A former employee of the water department in Stoughton, Massachusetts, is accused of tampering with the town’s drinking water supply and lying to federal investigators about it. Robert J. Bullock Sr., 58, of Brockton was indicted by a federal grand jury, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Massachusetts said Thursday. Prosecutors allege that on Nov. 29, 2022, Bullock went into a…

A man facing child sexual abuse charges has been rearrested and ordered held without bail after he failed to show up for the start of his trial in Fall River Superior Court on Monday, authorities said. Fall River resident Scott Fontaine, 48, was ordered to appear in court Monday for the start of his trial but never showed up, according…

UPDATE 2/15/2014: Fontaine was located and rearrested on Wednesday afternoon. A manhunt is underway for a man facing child sexual abuse charges after he failed to show up for the start of his trial in Fall River Superior Court on Monday, authorities said Tuesday. Fall River resident Scott Fontaine, 48, was ordered to appear in court Monday for the start…

Massachusetts is home to 31 drug courts where teams help treat mental health and substance abuse disorders that often lead to persistent criminal behavior.   “It’s to address people who are high risk, high need. And that generally means folks who have been in active addiction for a substantially long time and have a pretty significant criminal justice history as…

The Massachusetts man who worked as a magician for over 20 years accused of possessing images of child sex abuse pleaded guilty Tuesday to federal charges. Scott Jameson, 46, of Sutton, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in a federal court in Boston to engaging in illicit sexual conduct in a foreign place and transportation of child pornography. Prosecutors said the investigation is…

A Massachusetts businessman who once ran for the U.S. House of Representatives, was convicted Friday on charges that he accepted illegal campaign contributions and used campaign funds for business expenses and debts, federal prosecutors said Friday. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts said that Abhijit “Beej” Das, 50, of North Andover, Mass., was convicted of one count of accepting...

A statewide legal system was briefly down Wednesday, affecting at least one legal case in Massachusetts. The MassCourts system outage held up the arraignment of Boston City Councilor Kendra Lara on charges in a recent car crash, a judge said in the Roxbury Division of Boston Municipal Court — it wasn’t able to go forward until new charges were entered…

Legal experts like Mitchell Garabedian, a Boston-based attorney who represents victims of clergy sexual abuse, say nondisclosure agreements, like the one at the center of the case against Donald Trump, are often used to silence victims of workplace misconduct on the taxpayer’s dime

The same type of hush money payments Donald Trump is accused of using to silence adult film star Stormy Daniels are currently being investigated in Massachusetts by State Auditor Dianna DiZoglio. Daniels signed a nondisclosure agreement with Trump’s attorney in October 2016, agreeing to keep their alleged affair quiet in exchange for $130,000. She later broke that agreement by speaking…

A Brookline, Massachusetts, doctor was indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday in alleged health care and money laundering schemes. Dr. Pankaj Merchia, 49, who works as a sleep medicine physician, is accused of two separate frauds, the US Attorney’s Office in Boston said. In the first, prosecutors allege he billed former patients’ insurers for Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP)…

Natalia Bryant, the 19-year-old daughter of Kobe and Vanessa Bryant, has filed for a restraining order against an alleged stalker, court records show. 

Police say the victim was walking home when she was struck trying to cross Route 9.

A man charged in a hit-and-run crash in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, over the weekend that left a 20-year-old woman dead faced a judge on Wednesday. The Worcester Country District Attorney’s Office alleges that Jerry Santiago, 24, was driving the car that hit 20-year-old Ghufran Mutar and then left the scene. Mutar was crossing Route 9 at the intersection with South Street…

The Massachusetts man who has worked as a magician for over 20 years and is now accused of having sexually explicit images of young boys is expected in court Wednesday. Scott Jameson, 45, of Sutton, Massachusetts, is expected in federal court in Boston at 2 p.m. Wednesday after his arrest last Friday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. A probable…