Suffolk County District Attorney's Office

A crisis intervention team went door-to-door Tuesday in Winthrop, Massachusetts, where residents are shaken by a gunman’s shooting rampage that killed two Black people. The team, made up of local police and social workers, listened to residents and offered any social services they might need. The message was that no one is alone. “Everybody knows somebody, so we are...

Grief counselors went door to door in Winthrop to check on members of the community left shaken by a deadly shooting being investigated as a hate crime.

A gunman opened fire in Winthrop, killing two people in what is being investigated as a hate crime.

In a move that could affect tens of thousands of drug convictions in Boston and the rest of Suffolk County, District Attorney Rachael Rollins pledged on Monday to vacate any that are tied to two convicted Massachusetts state drug lab chemists. Anyone whose drug certification was done by Annie Dookhan or Sonja Farak at the William A. Hinton State Laboratory…

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins pledged to vacate drug convictions tied to a scandal at a state-run drug lab.

A Boston man who was arrested in July in Long Beach, California, in connection with a fatal stabbing in Dorchester is being held without bail after appearing in a Massachusetts court Tuesday on a second-degree murder charge. Anthony Nicholes, 50, was arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court on the murder charge, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office. Judge Jeffrey…

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins has filed a motion to vacate over 100 convictions linked to a 2012 state drug lab scandal. The motion filed late Monday moves to vacate 108 so-called “List Three” convictions in Suffolk County Rollins says are “tainted” by misconduct by former state drug lab chemist Annie Dookhan. Authorities discovered Dookhan tampered with evidence and…

Boston’s District Attorney Rachael Rollins sends powerful message after Boston protests.

A man serving life in prison now faces charges in connection with the rape and killing of a woman in a Boston hotel nearly 40 years ago. A grand jury on Wednesday indicted Steven Fike on rape and first-degree murder charges in the March 1980 killing of Wendy Dansereau, Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins said in a written statement. Fike…

A former Boston youth baseball couch who was accused of raping a child but deported in 2014 has been brought back to Massachusetts to stand trial, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said Monday. Jose Ortega, 48, is charged with rape of a child under 16 and battery of a child under 14. He was originally indicted in 2014 and released on bail.

A Massachusetts man is facing multiple charges for allegedly raping two foster children who were in his care. Michael Diaz, 33, of Chelsea, was arrested July 19 on nine counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, six counts of aggravated rape of a child under 16 and one count of distributing matter harmful to a minor....

Boston Police have identified the teenager who was killed Monday in an officer-involved shooting. Authorities said Wednesday that 19-year-old Jaymil Ellerbe of Dorchester was fatally wounded after allegedly firing a gun at two officers. A second suspect, 21-year-old Ernest Watkins, also of Dorchester, was arrested Wednesday. Police responded to reported gunfire near Geneva Avenue and Park Street in Dorchester. They...

Boston police have yet to reveal the name of the 19-year-old man who was shot and killed after he allegedly fired a gun at two officers Monday in Dorchester. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office says it is investigating the shooting that left a teen suspect dead on Pennhallow Street. According to police, the confrontation came after officers responded to...

Boston police have yet to reveal the name of the 19-year-old man who was shot and killed after he allegedly fired a gun at two officers Monday in Dorchester. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office says it is investigating the shooting that left a teen suspect dead on Pennhallow Street. According to police, the confrontation came after officers responded to...

Celebrity chef Mario Batali will face a criminal assault charge in Massachusetts. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office said Batali was expected to be arraigned Friday in Boston Municipal Court on a charge of indecent assault and battery. The charge stems from an incident at a restaurant in Boston’s Back Bay on March 31, 2017, the DA’s office said.

Boston police have seized a drone seen flying over Fenway Park during a Red Sox game this week.

A Long Island man blinded his grandmother by gouging her eyes out during an argument, prosecutors say.

Former Boston Celtics player Jabari Bird admitted to facts alleged by prosecutors during a court appearance on Monday for a status hearing in his domestic assault case. Twenty-four-year-old Bird made his appearance in Brookline District Court on a complaint with multiple charges, including strangulation or suffocation, kidnapping, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and witness intimidation.

The Boston Police Department has named three officers under investigation for alleged payroll abuse. The department told NBC10 Boston Monday that it is investigating Louis A. Vazquez, David A. Stewart and Curtis Carroll, all officers at the Roxbury headquarters.