District Attorney Sam Sutter announced that a jury of his peers today convicted 22-year-old Erick Cournoyer of second degree murder and other charges connected to the July 1st shooting death of 18-year-old Bianca Rosado in New Bedford. The jury deliberated for about seven hours over the course of two days before returning its verdict earlier…
District Attorney Sam Sutter’s statement to the media outside of the Fall River Justice Center on the disposition of the Brayton Point Protest case – Commonwealth v. Kenneth Ward, Commonwealth v. Jonathan O’Hara “The decision that Assistant District Attorney Robert Kidd and I reached today was a decision that certainly took into consideration the cost…
District Attorney Sam Sutter announced today that a Bristol County Grand Jury has indicted 26-year-old Marco Shane Ramos, for the July murder of 22-year-old Alex Silva in New Bedford. Ramos, of 3 Social Street, New Bedford, was indicted on a charge of murder and will be formally arraigned in Fall River Superior Court on a…
Swansea Police, Massachusetts State Police Detectives assigned to this office and Homicide Unit prosecutors are currently investigating a homicide, which took place in the Town of Swansea during the overnight hours this morning. Swansea Police received multiple 911 calls regarding a shooting on the roadway in the area of 356 Ocean Grove Ave. this morning…
New Bedford Police, State Police Detectives assigned to this office and Homicide Unit prosecutors are now jointly investigating the discovery of a deceased male early Sunday morning near Weld Square in New Bedford as a homicide. The victim has been identified as Edson A. Ramos, 32, of an unknown address inNew Bedford. Police responded to…
Charges against Marco Shane Ramos connected to a Thursday night stabbing in the City of New Bedford have been upgraded to murder. Mr. Ramos is now charged with murder, armed robbery and carrying a dangerous weapon. The new charges were filed just afternoon today in New Bedford District Court. Mr. Ramos will be arraigned on…
New Bedford Police, State Police Detectives assigned to the District Attorney’s Office and Homicide Unit Prosecutors are all investigating a homicide, which occurred in the City of New Bedford Thursday night. Thursday evening around 6:45 p.m., a man suffering from an apparent stab wound walked into the New Bedford Police Department’s South End Station. The…
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…
