Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The Boston Marathon bombings suspect currently hospitalized told FBI agents that he and his brother detonated the bombs near the finish line, the Boston Globe reports.
The Boston Marathon bombing suspect currently hospitalized admitted to FBI agents that he and his brother detonated the bombs planted near the finish line, the Boston Globe reports. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, made the reported admission on Sunday from his bed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and had not yet been given a Miranda warning, the Globe reported. A "senior police official" told the Globe that authorities were not concerned about Tsarnaev not being read his Miranda rights, which means any statements he made would not be admissible in court, due to testimony of the Tsarnaev brother's alleged carjacking victim. According to the criminal complaint filed against Tsarnaev, during the carjacking on Thursday night one of the brothers…
Monday, March 18, 2013
Federal and museum officials updated the public with new developments in the half-billion-dollar robbery, one of the largest art heists in history.
Note: This article has been updated to note the FBI is seeking the public's help to locate the 13 missing pieces of art. A previous version of article suggested the FBI needed the public's help to "bring [the thieves] to justice." FBI officials announced today they know who committed one of the biggest art heists in history, but they still need the public's help to locate the 13 missing pieces of art. “The FBI believes with a high degree of confidence in the years after the theft the art was transported to Connecticut and the Philadelphia region and some of the art was taken to Philadelphia where it was offered for sale by those responsible for the theft.” said Richard DesLauriers, Special Agent in Charge of the Boston FBI office. “With …
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The suspect in the Saturday morning robbery of Citizens Bank in Union Square was arrested early Tuesday morning at a Red Roof Inn in Salem, N.H.
The suspect in the Saturday morning robbery of Citizens Bank in Union Square was arrested early Tuesday morning at a Red Roof Inn in Salem, N.H., Somerville Police announced Tuesday morning. The suspect had already served time in federal prison for a previous bank robbery, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. The suspect, Michael Tucker, 45, was identified from the Citizens Bank surveillance photo by Westwood Police—he had been caught on video allegedly stealing lottery tickets from a Shell gas station, according to Westwood Police. Tucker was located at the hotel overnight, and agents from the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force, U.S. Marshals Service, Somerville Police and Salem Police converged on the hotel. Tucker was charged with …
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Monday, October 15, 2012
The Citizens Bank in Union Square was robbed late Saturday morning, according to police.
As of Monday morning, Somerville police and the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force were still looking to identify the suspect in a Saturday morning bank robbery in Union Square. The robbery happened at the Citizens Bank, at 40 Union Square in the heart of the business district, at about 11:20 a.m. It's one of the busiest times of the week in the square, with the farmers market around the corner usually attracting large crowds of shoppers. The square's cafes and businesses are usually buzzing with activity on a Saturday morning. "We have three very good photos of this guy," said Deputy Chief Paul Upton of the Somerville Police Department. However, the suspect "looked like any other person in Union Square on a Saturday," he said. The suspect was …
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Monday, July 9, 2012
Here's how to check if you have this malware on your computer.
If you still have a pesky trojan malware on your computer by Monday, July 9, say goodbye to your Internet access, the FBI warns. Both Windows and Mac users are at risk; Linux users and smart phone and tablet users are safe, Forbes reports. The specific trojan malware, or "malicious software," is known as “DNS Changer,” which was discovered in 2007 and infected millions of computers globally. Visit the DNS Changer Working Group’s website to read more, see if your computer is infected and find out how to remove the malware. The working group's website will direct you this site for a quick check: http://www.dns-ok.us/ So how did the DNS Changer claw its way into millions of computers? Every time you search the Internet, you trigger the …
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
At status hearing in federal court today, federal prosecutors accused Bulger of trying to delay the trial, according to press reports.
Federal prosecutors in the case against James "Whitey" Bulger accused the notorious mobster of trying to slow down the court process in order to avoid trial, according to the Boston Globe and other media accounts. He's trying to "manipulate the system," one prosecutor said, according to a report from the Associated Press. Prosecutors and Bulger's attorney, J.W. Carney, Jr., were in U.S. District Court in Boston this afternoon for a status hearing. Bulger faces trial on 19 counts of murder in addition to charges of racketeering, money laundering, extortion, possession of machine guns and other allegations stemming from his career as a reputed mob boss in Boston. Bulger did not attend today's status hearing, and the next hearing is scheduled…
Monday, September 26, 2011
According to a recent FBI report, Somerville saw a decline in violent crime from 2009 to 2010, and the city had a lower violent crime rate than Cambridge, Boston and the nation as a whole.
Somerville has a lower rate of violent crime than Cambridge, Boston, Massachusetts and the nation as a whole, according to recent data from the FBI. Based on figures from the FBI's 2010 "Uniform Crime Reports," which was released last week, the rate of violent crime in Somerville, in 2010, was 314.8 per 100,000. As a comparison, Cambridge had a violent crime rate of 439.2 per 100,000, and the rate in Boston was 903.4 per 100,000. In the Northeast region of the United States, Massachusetts had the highest violent crime rate, according to the FBI's report. The Northeast region of the country, as defined by the report, includes the six New England states, New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Violent crime includes four categories of crimes…
Tuesday, July 19, 2011
Federal authorities have issued subpoenas to at least two people in California who knew Bulger, according to media reports.
A federal grand jury in Boston is investigating the 16-year period when James "Whitey" Bulger and his girlfriend, Catherine Greig, were fugitives living in California, according to the Boston Globe. According to the Globe, the FBI has issued at least two subpoenas: one to Bulger and Greig's former property manager in Santa Monica, and one to someone who knew the couple during their time in California. The federal investigation could lead to further charges against Bulger and Greig, the Globe reports. Bulger, a reputed South Boston mob boss who faces charges on 19 counts of murder in addition to other charges, was arrested on June 22 in Santa Monica and brought to Boston for trial. Greig, who lived with Bulger in California, faces charges …
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
An FBI agent chronicled some of the details investigators have been able to put together from Greig and Bulger's 16 years on the run during a hearing Monday
Catherine Greig and James "Whitey" Bulger had a stockpile of aliases with a wide-range of documents and ID cards stowed in their Santa Monica apartment, and had previously gone to great lengths to pick up new identities, an FBI agent said during court testimony Monday. Greig, a long-time girlfriend of Bulger, appeared Monday afternoon for a detention hearing at federal district court on the Boston waterfront. Greig wants to be released from federal custody and held to the confinement of a family home with a GPS tracking device while a charge of harboring a fugitive pends against her. FBI: Greig Posed for Fake IDs Prosecutors called an FBI agent to testify, who spoke of Greig's involvement in posing for photos for fake IDs and one occassion…
Thursday, June 23, 2011
James "Whitey" Bulger, alleged mob boss, arrested in California.
(This article was written by Santa Monica Patch editor Kurt Orzeck and updated by Boston Patch editors at 10:15 a.m.) Top law enforcement officials from Massachusetts are scheduled to discuss the capture of James "Whitey" Bulger this morning at US Attorney Carmen Ortiz's office in the Moakley Courthouse in Boston. Bulger, the alleged mob boss and Top Ten Fugitive who has been on the run for 16 years, was arrested Wednesday in Santa Monica, California. His longtime companion, Catherine Greig, was also arrested. Bulger had been wanted for at least 19 murders that occurred in the 1970s and '80s in connection "with his leadership of an organized crime group that allegedly controlled extortion, drug deals, and other illegal activities in the …
Steve Marino
5:33 pm on Thursday, April 25, 2013
Of course it is intent! We were fighting a war with the intent to win. You use any means that you have, including those that have the same will as ours to remove the scum that invaded that country. We had no way of knowing that some religious nut would want to fight us years later. And we killed him for it like every other enemy before him. more ›