Saturday, May 25, 2013
Today is Missing Children's Day. Take time to look at the photos of children still missing in our state.
According to the Department of Justice, every year hundreds of thousands of kids are reported missing across the country. Some run away, some are abducted. And many have never been found. Saturday is Missing Children's Day. Here is a partial list of children in Massachusetts who have gone missing in recent years. Check the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children for full lists by state as well as age progression photos. Included in the list is Rebecca Ann Hicks, age 10, of Woburn, missing since April 13, 2009.
The house passed legislation to treat most 17-year-olds as juvenile defenders. Is this a compassionate or dangerous change?
Massachusetts is currently one of only 11 states that tries 17-year-olds as adults. A bill passed this week by the state's House of Representatives would make these teenagers juvenile defenders, according to a report by 7News Boston. That will put the commonwealth in line with most other states, where adult court is reserved for individuals 18 and older. The bill still allows the state to try 17-year-olds as adults in serious cases, like murders. But proponents hope the change will reduce cases of rape in the state's prison system by keeping younger inmates away from older, stronger convicts. What do you think? Are we getting too soft on younger defendants? Or is this a justified, compassionate change to protect teenagers? Tell us your …
Friday, May 24, 2013
An excerpt from the WPD police log. The following arrest information was supplied by the Woburn Police Department. The arrest does not indicate a conviction.
The following is an excerpt from the Woburn Police Department log. Please note that this is a sampling of activity in the log, not a complete account. We report all arrests included in the daily police log. Featured Incident May 21- At 11:55 p.m. a man came to the station to report a possible scam. The man said he had received a phone call on May 16 from someone who said they were calling from the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City. The caller said the man’s grandson had been arrested for drunk driving and that he needed to send $1,800 to assist him. The victim said the man on the phone told him not to tell anyone about it. On May 17 he received another call from someone else identified as “Private Investigator Frank Miller” who said he had …
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Boston Bean Coffee Company
23b Draper St, Woburn, MA
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A funeral will be held Wednesday, May 29 at the Lynch-Cantillon Funeral Home, 263 Main St., Woburn at 9:15 a.m. followed by a Funeral Mass in St. Charles Church, 280 Main St., Woburn at 10 a.m.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Patch has received notice that Fire Lt. Chris Haney has died.
The Woburn Fire Department lost one of its own today. An active Woburn fire lieutenant has passed away. According to an obituary from the Lynch-Cantillon Funeral Home, Fire Lt. Chris Haney passed away. A funeral will be held Wednesday, May 29 at the Lynch-Cantillon Funeral Home, 263 Main St., Woburn at 9:15 a.m. followed by a Funeral Mass in St. Charles Church, 280 Main St., Woburn at 10 a.m. Visiting hours will be Tuesday, May 28 from 3 to 8 p.m. Interment will be private. Lt. Haney was the companion of Jeanne Pacios and father of Jacqueline C. Haney and Morgan E. Haney and her companion Shaun Morin, of Methuen. He is also survived by his daughters' mother, Loranie (Morrison) Haney, of Methuen. He was the grandfather of Camdyn P. Morin; …
The Woburn Fire/Local 971 Retirement Party will be held June 28 at 7 p.m. at the Woburn Country Club.
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
The following is based on a release from the Woburn Police Department.
Police arrested two Woburn men, a Malden man and a Boston woman on charges related to drug trafficking and distribution at the Woburn Stop & Shop on Tuesday, May 14, according to Woburn Police. The Southern Middlesex Regional Drug Task Force and Woburn Police Department patrol officers also assisted in the investigation. According to the release the arrests were made following a lengthy investigation into the trafficking and distribution of Oxycodone in the area. The investigation included surveillance and the purchase of illegal drugs by undercover officers. As a result of the investigation police arrested: Joseph Paul DeFilippo, 26, of 6 Kimball Court, Apartment 510, Woburn. DeFilippo was charged with distibuting a Class B Drug - …
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Stop & Shop Pharmacy
3 Elm St, Woburn, MA
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Tuesday, May 21, 2013
An excerpt from the WPD police log. The following arrest information was supplied by the Woburn Police Department. The arrest does not indicate a conviction.
The following is an excerpt from the Woburn Police Department log. Please note that this is a sampling of activity in the log, not a complete account. We report all arrests included in the daily police log. Featured Incident May 20- At 11:44 a.m. police stopped a vehicle, a Jeep Grand Cherokee, that Malden Police were searching for based on an assault with a dangerous weapon in that town. Police pulled the vehicle over on Inwood Drive and searched the driver and passenger who were father and son. Police found a four-inch knife in the pocket of the son. He said he had pulled the knife in self defense because the other man “was coming at him with a pen.” Malden police did a drive-by with the victim for identification and that came out …
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Rohtstein Corporation
70 Olympia Ave, Woburn, MA
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Officer Gibbons, who returned fire and wounded a suspect during the Sept. 6, 2011 incident at a jewelry store that left fellow officer Robert DeNapoli injured, was honored yesterday.
A Woburn officer who returned fire at a suspect after a fellow officer was shot was honored yesterday. United States Senators Elizabeth Warren and William M. Cowan, Congressman Edward Markey, United States Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, and U.S. Marshall John Gibbons recognized Woburn Police Officer Mark Gibbons with the Congressional Badge of Bravery award during a ceremony at the U.S. Federal Courthouse today. Officer Gibbons was honored for his heroic acts following a jewelry store robbery in Woburn. On Sept. 6 of 2011, Officer Gibbons responded to the Four Corners jewelry robbery in which Officer Robert DeNapoli was shot several times by a suspect. The suspect fired at Officer Gibbons multiple times, putting three rounds into the driver’s …
MBTA Officer Richard Donohue, of Woburn, who was injured in a shoot out with the Boston Marathon bombers talks about that night, his injuries and his recovery.
Ceegee
12:30 pm on Saturday, May 25, 2013
I think that this is right on. Incarcerating juveniles with hardened criminals is a guarantee of producing more criminals in the future. It might be a possible short term fix. A more long term and positive fix would be to provide them with counseling and treatment while keeping them temporarily off the streets. In the long term this would be a more economically sound program than the short term … more ›