Suffolk district attorney

Boston City Councilor Ricardo Arroyo said Tuesday that he plans to run for Suffolk County district attorney to continue the reforms started by former DA Rachael Rollins. Arroyo, 34, a former public defender, in a statement said his goal is to “build a justice system that protects the safety and dignity of all people” and “One that will maintain the…

Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins announced Thursday that in one of her final acts in the office she is launching a criminal investigation into the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority following last summer’s Green Line crash. Green Line trolley operator Owen Turner was charged with negligence last fall in connection with the July 30, 2021, trolley crash. The crash occurred around…

The deadly shooting comes as the Boston Police Commissioner and Suffolk County District Attorney warn of an uptick in crime.

A man who planted and detonated an improvised explosive device next to a Boston police cruiser in 2017 was found guilty on Thursday. Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins announced that 45-year-old Asim Kieta was sentenced to 15-18 years in state prison and five years probation on Friday. In a jury-waived trial, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Jeffrey Locke found Kieta guilty….

A Boston College student charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly encouraging her boyfriend to take his life has been arraigned. Twenty-one-year-old Inyoung You, a South Korean national, appeared before a judge at Suffolk Superior Court Friday morning where a not guilty plea was entered on her behalf. Prosecutors say You sent Alexander Urtula, of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, more than...

A former Boston College student charged in her boyfriend’s suicide is due to appear in court Friday.

A former Boston College student charged with involuntary manslaughter for allegedly encouraging her boyfriend to take his life faces arraignment. A spokesman for the Suffolk district attorney says 21-year-old Inyoung You is scheduled to be arraigned Friday morning in Suffolk Superior Court. Prosecutors say You sent Alexander Urtula, of Cedar Grove, New Jersey, more than 47,000 text messages in the...

A former Boston College student indicted in connection with the suicide of her boyfriend plans to provide text messages showing that she tried to talk him out of killing himself. A public relations firm representing 21-year-old Inyoung You of South Korea told the Boston Globe that she will return to the United States in the near future to face the...

A Boston College student faces an involuntary manslaughter charge after she allegedly urged her boyfriend to kill himself just hours before he was set to graduate. Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins announced the disturbing indictment in a press conference in October of 2019. Here’s what we know.

Inyoung You, 21, of South Korea, is facing a charge of involuntary manslaughter in connection with the death of 22-year-old Alexander Urtula, who was also a student at Boston College.

Police are investigating Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood after a person barricaded themselves inside a home Saturday night.

The Suffolk District Attorney’s office is launching a new initiative to revisit hundreds of cold-case homicides. DA Rachael Rollins says the campaign will devote more law enforcement time and resources to unsolved murders in Suffolk County, which includes Boston.

Boston’s district attorney is not pursuing charges against 18 people arrested outside a Boston jail during a protest against the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins filed court papers ending the prosecution in the cases, she said Wednesday.

Prosecutors, public defenders, and community groups in Massachusetts announced a federal lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement over its policy of arresting people at courthouses on civil immigration matters. Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins were among those who announced the complaint at a news conference Monday.

Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins issued a memo putting her office in direct conflict with ICE.

The godmother of the child of a 23-year-old mother from Massachusetts whose body was found dead in the trunk of a vehicle last month says she thinks the suspect deserves the death penalty. Louis D. Coleman III, 32, of Providence, Rhode Island briefly appeared in federal court in Boston Monday to face charges in the kidnapping and death of 23-year-old...

Sean Ellis is officially a free man after the murder charges against him were formally dropped Tuesday, one day after prosecutors announced they would not put Ellis on trial for a fourth time. “It’s everything I expected and more,” Ellis said while standing with family at the courthouse Tuesday. Ellis, 44, was facing a first degree murder charge for the...

Sean Ellie spoke Monday after Suffolk District Attorney John Pappas announced that his office is ending prosecution of Ellis for first degree murder and armed robbery in the 1993 slaying of a Boston police officer.

Suffolk District Attorney John Pappas announced Monday that his office is ending prosecution of Sean Ellis for first degree murder and armed robbery in connection with the murder of a Boston police officer in 1993. The case is being dropped because prosecutors don’t believe they would be successful in a re-trial due to the amount of time that has since...