LOWELL — Defendants facing charges including armed robbery and drug trafficking were released from custody on Wednesday at the Kiernan Judicial Center, as trial courts in Middlesex and Suffolk counties began holding emergency Lavallee Protocol hearings at the Lowell-based courthouse in response to a statewide shortage of court-appointed attorneys.
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Nantucket is testing wastewater for cocaine, fentanyl, meth: ‘Very helpful for both residents and first responders’
Nantucket is testing wastewater for cocaine, fentanyl, meth: ‘Very helpful for both residents and first responders’
Fentanyl kingpin gets 22 years
The Boston U.S. Attorney’s office crackdown on fentanyl trafficking netted a 22-year sentence in one case and charged a New York City man with operating a scheme that flooded Greater Boston with multiple kilos of the “deadly poison.”
A Massachusetts prison guard was reportedly ‘knocked unconscious’: ‘Enough is enough’
A Massachusetts prison guard was reportedly ‘knocked unconscious’: ‘Enough is enough’