It was a bittersweet end to a marathon court case that would decide if a Dorchester man was responsible for the overdose death of a 23-year-old woman at a Plymouth sober house. The defendant, William McNeill, 39, pleaded guilty this week in Plymouth Superior Court to manslaughter and drug distribution charges — almost seven years […]
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18-year-old Plymouth man one of two arrested for Harvard Medical School explosion
FBI agents arrested two men from Plymouth and Bourne early Tuesday in connection with Saturday’s explosion at Harvard Medical School, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley said in a press conference. On Cape Cod Avenue, in Manomet, Logan David Patterson, 18, was taken into custody at his mother’s house. One neighbor who did not want […]
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State Road crash leaves teen dead, two others injured
An 18-year-old Plymouth man was killed and two others injured in a head-on crash on State Road Friday morning. The accident, on a notoriously dangerous stretch of road, took place just before 8:30 a.m., according to Plymouth police. When officers and firefighters arrived at the scene, at 129 State Road, they found a gray 2020 […]
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Homeless man infamous for threatening motorists is jailed
You may have seen him flipping off drivers at Colony Place, Market Basket, or other Plymouth shopping destinations. Jeremy Smith has become well-known in town — but not in a good way. When a driver earlier this month posted on the All Things Plymouth Facebook page that a man, believed to be Smith, shouted at […]
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Plymouth firm’s app lets ICE identify people through eye scans
A Plymouth company has landed a contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency to provide ICE agents with an app that can scan irises to tap into databases nationwide and identify people. BI2 Technologies, based in a one-floor building on State Road, signed a $4.6 million deal with ICE in September. The app […]
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Customs agent charged with impersonating town manager blames ‘light sensitivity’
A condition called “light sensitivity” drove a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent to file a bizarre traffic complaint with the Plymouth police last year using the name of town manager Derek Brindisi, his lawyer says. In seeking to have identity fraud charges thrown out, Christopher Marden’s lawyer argued that his client’s “valid medical condition” […]
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‘We have to be our best on everybody’s worst day’
A police officer’s day is not easy. Like other departments, Plymouth Police deal with fatal traffic accidents, domestic violence, suicide, children’s deaths and other traumatic events – any of which can make it difficult to be emotionally and mentally prepared for the next challenge. “We have to be our best on everybody’s worst day,” said […]
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Brazilian man pulled from car by ICE being held in Louisiana
David De Paula Souza, the Brazilian man pulled out of his car and taken away by Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agents in front of a school bus filled with middle school students Sept. 23, is being held at a detention facility in Louisiana, according to an ICE website. “The bus driver initially described the […]
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ICE agents pull man from car in front of middle school students
Plymouth public school bus #8 was stopped on Standish Avenue, at the intersection of Cherry Street, shortly before 8 a.m. Tuesday when the middle school students aboard it got an eyewitness view of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents’ aggressive tactics. As the children looked on, they watched ICE officials pull a distraught man out […]
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U.S. customs officer charged with posing as Plymouth’s town manager
It was an incident that might have been dismissed as a silly prank had the prankster not posed as a well-known local official. A man accused of filing a phony complaint with Plymouth police inexplicably claimed to be Town Manager Derek Brindisi. The story gets stranger. The alleged impostor turned out to be a federal […]