District Attorney Sam Sutter is elated to announce that the full House and Senate tonight passed a comprehensive gun violence bill, which includes the creation of two new criminal statutes designed to ramp up the consequences for shooting or attempting to shoot another person. The new criminal statutes are Assault and Battery by Means of…

District Attorney Sam Sutter today announced that 51-year-old Christopher Anderson was sentenced to serve up to six years in state prison after pleading guilty to a number of charges related to the February 2011 heroin overdose death of his former girlfriend, Venus Chumack. On Friday, Mr. Anderson of 80 Foxborough St., New Bedford, pleaded guilty…

On Saturday July 12th and Saturday July 19th, Bristol County District Attorney Sam Sutter’s office will conduct two separate, free tennis clinics for area youth.  July’s clinics will mark a total of 68 free youth sports clinic offered by District Attorney Sutter since the program’s launch in 2007. To date, more than 4,500 total youth…