From Wellesley Police Department: Due to the ongoing manhunt in the Watertown area for the terrorist suspect, all activities at all schools in Wellesley are cancelled on Friday, April 19, 2013. This is merely a precaution. The Wellesley Police Department has numerous police officers on the street protecting the town. With that in mind, please [...]
From Wellesley Police Department: At 8AM this morning, Officer Tim Dennehy is investigating multiple car break-ins that appear to have taken place during the overnight. These break-ins occurred in the Thomas Road/Perrin Park/Durant Road area of town. Officer Dennehy reports that these vehicles were all unlocked and valuables including money, were removed from the cars. [...]
Wellesley Police Chief Terry Cunningham joins others in law enforcement across the country in a new national cable TV ad that calls on Congress to pass legislation requiring background checks for those buying guns. Cunningham, who refers to himself in the ad as “a life member of the NRA,” also says in the ad:”I’ve known [...]
The state’s Supreme Judicial Court has denied ex-Wellesley allergist Dirk Greineder’s latest bid for a new trial, which went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and as a result he will remain in prison for the murder of his wife Mabel on Halloween 1999 at Morses Pond. (You can read the court opinion [...]
The widow of Alex Motsenigos, the Wellesley cyclist killed last August when struck by an 18-wheeler on Weston Road near Linden Street, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit (a copy of the Jan. 30 complaint is here) against the driver and the companies that employed him and owned the truck. According to a report on [...]
The Wellesley Police Department reported Monday that the grand jury examining the road accident last August that killed Wellesley cyclist Alex Motsenigos will not indict the driver of the 18-wheel dump trailer that struck the cyclist on Weston Road. The driver was identified as Dana McCoomb, of East Wareham, who was driving a vehicle for [...]
From the Massachusetts Attorney General’s office, regarding last year’s Sun Spa scandal (some readers are still begging us for the list of patrons): BOSTON – The operators of two massage parlors, one in Wellesley and the other in Revere, have been indicted in connection with human trafficking and prostitution, Attorney General Martha Coakley announced today. [...]
