theft

A professor at Berklee College of Music can empathize with the man whose $70,000 viola was stolen this weekend in Boston. Police are investigating the instrument’s theft, which they say occurred between 2 a.m. and 3:50 p.m. Sunday in the area of Glenville Avenue in Allston. Berklee viola professor Rictor Noren says he knows how the victim feels. Someone also…

A valuable musical instrument was stolen this weekend in Boston’s Allston neighborhood.

Police in Boston are looking for a valuable instrument that was stolen this weekend in Allston. A viola worth $70,000 was stolen in the area of Glenville Avenue between 2 a.m. and 3:50 p.m. on Sunday, the Boston Police Department said. Authorities say the viola is about 16.5 inches long and was inside a black BAM Black Panther HighTech case,…

A New Hampshire sheriff has been arrested and charged with eight felonies as part an investigation into his misuse of county credit cards, the state attorney general announced Thursday. Strafford County Sheriff Mark Brave, who campaigned in 2020 to be the state’s only Black sheriff, is charged with one count of theft by deception for stealing about $19,000 in county…

A woman was hurt when her purse was snatched outside a bank Wednesday morning in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, police said. A man and a woman were arrested on robbery and assault and battery charges in the incident, which sent the 61-year-old woman to a local hospital, according to Tewksbury police. The woman was pushed to the ground when two people stole…

Police say the thieves didn’t get away with any money this time, but it’s not the first time it’s happened.

A pair of men escaped officers trying to catch them for trying to tear an ATM out of a bank in Hingham, Massachusetts, early Friday morning, police said. The men ran off after abandoning their Cadillac pickup truck behind a home, according to Hingham police. They shared photos of the white 2007 Escalade EXT parked on a home’s patio, between…

A family is desperately seeking information on the whereabouts of their beloved kitten Helen, who was stolen from their New Hampshire home last month, police say. Though a woman has since been charged with stealing the pet, the cat has yet to be found, the Hollis Police Department said Tuesday. The kitten was reported stolen from a home on Orchard…

After a week of worry, grief, and anguish, one South Boston family is celebrating the return of a sentimental statue that was stolen from their yard. The Charlie Chaplin statue belongs to Jessica Doyle, whose father, Dan Doyle, hand-painted the piece before his passing in 2018. The statue contains the ashes of both Dan and his father, making its brief…

A Boston man accused of killing a 79-year-old man late last year in Malden, Massachusetts, has been arrested in Georgia. The Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office says 33-year-old Dion Smith was taken into custody Thursday morning in Atlanta. Police had been searching for Smith following the stabbing death of Ronald Gilbert, whose body was found in his Kennedy Drive...

A prolific catalytic converter theft ring that hit hundreds of cars in Massachusetts and New Hampshire was busted Wednesday, federal authorities announced. The seven members of the alleged ring were arrested on a slew of charges, accused of stealing the valuable car parts from more than 470 vehicles, causing about $2 million in losses for the vehicles’ owners, as well…

Two teenagers have been arrested after authorities say they stole a rifle from a Massachusetts State Police cruiser that was parked overnight last week in Malden. The gun was taken from inside the vehicle while it was parked in the garage at an apartment complex on Overlook Ridge Drive on Thursday. It was recovered over the weekend. The Middlesex County…

Authorities said they recovered a Massachusetts State Police rifle that had been stolen last Thursday from a locked cruiser that was broken into overnight in Malden. The rifle was found in the Greater Boston area, and police said there’s no evidence to suggest that the gun was used in a crime since it was stolen. Despite the discovery of...

Police said the cruiser was locked and the rifle properly secured, but someone was still able to steal it while the car was parked in a garage in Malden.

Investigators believe that whoever took the rifle forced their way into the cruiser. The gun, a department-issued patrol rifle, had been secured in a mount, police said.

A Massachusetts State Police rifle was stolen from a locked cruiser parked overnight at a Malden housing complex, the agency said Thursday. Investigators believe that whoever took the rifle forced their way into the cruiser. The gun, a department-issued patrol rifle, had been secured in a mount, police said. There is no indication the rifle was used after being stolen,…

A man who’d been sought on suspicion of stealing from the Malden, Massachusetts, apartment of a 79-year-old man who was found dead there is now wanted on a murder charge, authorities said Wednesday. Dion Smith, 33, is now suspected of stabbing Ronald Gilbert to death in December, according to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office. Gilbert’s body wasn’t found until...

Ariel Foster, 19, of Boston, is charged with stealing money from the Lovisa jewelry store at the Burlington Mall.

A Lasell University student and track star remains out on bail on charges that she stole over $500,000 from her employer, a jewelry store at the Burlington Mall.

A student and track star at Lasell University in Newton, Massachusetts, appeared in court on Friday after being arrested for allegedly stealing over $500,000 from the jewelry store where she worked and using at least some of those funds to buy a Tesla, purchase thousands of dollars of Louis Vuitton merchandise and pay for a trip to Hawaii. Ariel Foster,…