A 25-year-old Plymouth man is facing multiple felony charges, including armed assault to murder, after he allegedly unleashed a barrage of gunfire at two houses in North Plymouth. No one was injured in the early Saturday morning incident, though bullets landed inside two homes on North Spooner Street, Plymouth police said. Police said the man, […]
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Suspect in brutal Manomet attack was earlier charged with raping a 61-year-old homeless woman
She planned to hang herself with a rope, a woman told police last summer after allegedly being raped by 19-year-old Brodric Mason. But the 61-year-old homeless woman was too distraught to testify, so the charges against the Plymouth man were dismissed. And Mason was free to roam the streets. This week, Mason faced felony […]
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‘I will stab and kill you’
A Plymouth man was apparently ready to commit murder over a vacuum cleaner and video monitors he was trying to steal from Walmart, according to police. A Walmart loss prevention employee called local police shortly after 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to report being threatened at knifepoint by Clifford Teague, 55, of Plymouth. The worker had attempted […]
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High-end staffing company owned by Plymouth man fined $2.5 million by state for labor law violations
A staffing company owned by a Plymouth man has been fined $2.5 million by Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell for violating state labor laws. The company, Concierge Services, is owned by Gregory Doyle. Its office is on Franklin Street in Boston, but the company also has a Plantation Road mailing address in Plymouth. Doyle did […]
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Firefighter charged with using hidden cameras to record his ex-girlfriend has been in trouble before
Even before he was accused of secretly recording his ex-girlfriend naked with another man, Richard Pimental faced criminal charges that could have disqualified him from working as a Plymouth firefighter. Pimental, 31, was placed on paid administrative leave in November after Fire Chief Neil Foley told Plymouth police that two co-workers, one of whom was […]
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Plymouth man pleads guilty to Covid fund fraud
A Plymouth man pleaded guilty Wednesday to Covid-19 relief fund fraud, according to the US Attorney’s office in Boston. Ferris Brooks, 41, applied for benefits in his own name and the names of three others — including two homeless people and a person who had been living in Dubai for more than a decade, prosecutors […]
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‘I saw the smoke coming out, I parked my car, and I just ran in’
When Dylan Oxsen arrived at the scene of a house fire at about 3 p.m. on Jan. 25, he was on his own. Thick black smoke poured from the split-level ranch on Esta Road. He could hear someone calling from inside. There wasn’t time to think, never mind wait for backup. All the three-year Plymouth […]
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Plymouth man pleads guilty to attacking Capitol Police officer during Jan. 6 rioting
A retired Boston police officer from Plymouth pleaded guilty Thursday to charges he assaulted a Capitol Police officer during the breach of the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Joseph Fisher, 52, was indicted in September on eight criminal counts, including assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers and engaging in physical violence in a restricted […]
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Arrest made in theft of $150 from autistic man
The thieves were no match for Steven Galandzi. The 28-year-old Plymouth Walmart employee, autistic and vulnerable, was leaving work in late August when three young men accosted him demanding money. At first, he resisted but was so scared he opened his wallet and ended up giving them everything —$150 he had saved from his weekly […]
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Plymouth Public House, Tavern on the Wharf hit with huge labor law fines
The owners of the Plymouth Public House and Tavern on the Wharf restaurants have been fined nearly half a million dollars for violating state labor laws. Peter Lucido and Paul Tupa have been ordered pay a total of $476,351 in civil penalties and in restitution for violating child labor, sick time, wage and hour compensation, […]