Authorities say a 49-year-old Acton man indicted for repeatedly raping his 16-year-old step-daughter shot each her and himself to demise.
Acton Police acquired a name at round 4 p.m. Thursday reporting that Juliano Santana had kidnapped his step-daughter. Officers contacted Santana’s probation officer who was in a position to find him by the GPS monitor he needed to put on as a consequence of his pending youngster sexual assault case, in accordance with the Middlesex District Legal professional’s workplace.
The placement took police to a car parking zone on Nice Street close to the sufferer’s residence and a horrific discovery: each Santana and his sufferer “dead from apparent gunshot wounds” inside his automotive.
“The subsequent investigation suggests that Santana abducted the victim as she was walking on Great Road near her residence after school and later shot her and then himself,” the Middlesex DA’s workplace wrote in an announcement.
Santana had allegedly been raping the lady at the very least way back to Sept. 7, 2021, when the lady first reported the abuse. He was arrested the identical day and charged with six counts of aggravated rape of a kid. The sufferer had an lively restraining order towards Santana, in accordance with the DA’s workplace. Santana’s trial was scheduled for the tip of July.
Fitchburg chilly case homicide suspect arraigned
The second of two males indicted in March for the taking pictures homicide of 15-year-old Deondray Atwood in Fitchburg in 1993 has appeared in court docket to face his fees.
Robert D’Lucca, 49, appeared in Worcester Superior Courtroom Friday to be formally arraigned on the cost of homicide. His arraignment follows that of co-defendant Lawrence Calafell, 51, who was in court docket shortly after the indictments have been offered by the grand jury.
Each males additionally face fees of armed assault with intent to homicide, assault with a harmful weapon, carrying a firearm with no license and possession of ammunition with out an FID card.
Prosecutors say that D’Lucca and Calafell on Nov. 25, 1993, shot up a automotive parked on Dennis Road in Fitchburg, hitting two of the three occupants within the automobile, in accordance with the Worcester DA’s workplace. Atwood was shot a number of occasions and died. A second, unnamed passenger was additionally shot a number of occasions however survived. The third occupant was not injured.
Boston Police seek for suspects
The Boston PD has issued calls to the general public to assist them remedy two unrelated crimes that passed off roughly an hour aside on Might 24: a person suspected of slashing tires in Dorchester and a girl suspected of assaulting somebody with pepper spray.
At round 5 a.m., officers say, an unknown girl — a black feminine with blonde hair who seems in submitted images to be sporting a tight-fitting lilac athletic garment — pepper sprayed somebody together with one other suspect who could also be generally known as “Brooke” after which stole the sufferer’s automotive keys. This occurred within the 100-block of Seaver Road in Roxbury.
At round 5 p.m. the identical day, police say, a person took out a knife and slashed the rear driver-side tire of his sufferer’s automotive within the space of Columbia Street and Geneva Avenue in Dorchester. Police describe their suspect as a “Dominican male, 20-30 years old, long dreadlocks,” and who was sporting a tan shirt on the time. They are saying he’s recognized to hold round Columbia Street between Devon and Stanwood streets.
Police ask that anybody with any data on both incident name detectives at (617) 343-4275. Nameless ideas could be shared to the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-800-494-TIPS (8477) or by texting the phrase “TIP” to CRIME (27463).
Dorchester’s ‘unprovoked’ puncher
Authorities have charged Damond Brown, 52, a person prosecutors say has a 12-page probation file courting again 35 years, for the “unprovoked” punching of a 65-year-old man throughout a mugging in Dorchester.
Brown, who was convicted of armed assault to homicide in 2019, appeared in Boston Municipal Courtroom to be arraigned on a single rely of unarmed theft on an individual over 60. Decide Steven Key discovered Brown harmful and ordered him held with out bail forward of his June 17 possible trigger listening to.
Police responded a bit earlier than 5 a.m. on April 20 to the realm of Harrison and Massachusetts avenues the place the sufferer, who they are saying was mendacity subsequent to a pool of blood and had suffered a laceration to his head, instructed them that he was strolling when the person — who authorities say is Brown — “randomly punched him with a closed fist, knocking him to the ground.” He mentioned he “blacked out” and awakened on the bottom.
Surveillance footage exhibits Brown and an unidentified second suspect then rummage by way of the person’s pockets as he lay “motionless” on the bottom.
Market manipulation shouldn’t be a fairly image
A Mashpee man who runs an funding firm launched a false press launch to artificially inflate the buying and selling worth of wire photographs service Getty after which dumping his holdings to rake up the unlawful earnings.
Robert Scott Murray, 60, has agreed to plead responsible to 1 rely of securities fraud, the feds say, and can seem in federal court docket in Boston later. The cost carries as much as 20 years in jail and a high quality of as much as $5 million.
Seattle-based Getty Picture Holdings, Inc., which sells photographs, movies and music to be used by all kinds of media purchasers, is traded on the New York Inventory Trade beneath the image GETY. The feds say Murray — a long-time investor who has served because the CEO of a wide range of public corporations — owned about 300,000 GETY shares and needed to be part of the corporate’s board of administrators. He failed in that pursuit.
The feds say that Murray — the only proprietor and supervisor of Massachusetts-based Trillium Capital LLC — then undertook a scheme to artificially inflate the corporate’s inventory worth so he might then unload all of his shares at an enormous revenue.
A part of this scheme was sending out a press launch between market hours on April 24, 2023, stating that his agency was buying Getty at $10 per share, practically double the $5.06 share worth on the earlier market day’s shut. The discharge rocketed the share worth to $7.88 at Monday’s market opening. The feds say that Murray then offered off all of his shares throughout the hour, netting practically $1.5 million.
