Two students at Framingham High School showed up at the nurse’s office on Monday, October 7th. They were not there, however, for the typical stomachache or sore throat – these students had apparently eaten pot brownies and become ill as a result. According to an article in the Metrowest Daily…
According to an article in MetroWest Daily News, two men were stopped in a car on October 1st in Framingham. The operator was driving on Waverly Street when officers on patrol reportedly saw him and knew that he had a suspended license. The officers then stopped the car. After the…
A Weymouth man was pulled over in Framingham on September 23, 2013 for what should have been a routine traffic stop. According to an article in MetroWest Daily News, the man allegedly rolled through a stop sign on Franklin Street. Police patrolling the area observed the traffic infraction and pulled him…
The Supreme Court will soon decide whether police violate the Fourth Amendment by bringing a drug dog to the front door of a suspected marijuana grow house to execute a dog sniff, and the implications will be important for persons accused of drug crimes in Massachusetts and elsewhere. The Court…
A 24-year-old Natick man was charged Monday with multiple counts of breaking and entering in the daytime and larceny from a building in Framingham District Court, MetroWest Daily News reported. Police arrested the man after a Natick officer, off-duty at the time, allegedly saw him depositing a large amount of change…
The Brockton Enterprise reports on an arrest of a man yesterday in Raynham, Massachusetts. The man was arrested for allegedly having a hoax bomb device in his possession. Apparently the trouble for the man all started when police thought he was a “suspicious person” because he was sitting in parked motor…
A hotly debated topic in criminal law circles is the limits on police to exercise their authority when they are off duty or outside of the jurisdiction where they are employed as officers. While some citizens are comforted by the idea that a police officer may take action at any…