Substance use treatment providers have until June 5 to apply
As part of a continuing effort to address the opioid epidemic and its impact on public safety, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins is seeking to partner with a nonprofit mental health provider to enhance drug diversion programming for young people in Boston, Chelsea, Revere and Winthrop.
Read MoreSuffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins today asked the state Supreme Judicial Court to vacate guilty pleas of 64 people who pleaded guilty to 91 drug charges before the state’s scandal-tainted drug laboratory was able to test the substances -- tests which later showed the substances were not illegal drugs.
Read MoreDistrict Attorney Rachael Rollins and State Representative Jonathan Santiago jointly filed an amicus letter on May 7, 2020 in a case brought by incarcerated individuals seeking an order of the Supreme Judicial Court to ensure the lives and health of high-risk inmates by reducing the state’s prison population.
Read MoreThe man who fatally shot 43-year-old Pascual Casiano and injured a second man at a Roslindale auto shop last year was arraigned yesterday on murder and other charges, District Attorney Rachael Rollins announced.
Read MoreDistrict Attorney Rollins on April 28, 2020, sent a letter to Governor Charlie Baker encouraging him to take action to address the risk of COVID-19 within Massachusetts jails, houses of correction, and state prisons.
Read MoreSuffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins today praised the work of law enforcement for identifying and apprehending TOMONGO BEY, 56, of Mattapan, for breaking into the parked cars of two emergency room nurses working at Boston Children’s Hospital earlier this month.
Read MoreFor the second time this month, Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Judicial Court to overturn a lower court ruling which reduced bail to personal recognizance for an individual accused of violent crimes, the most recent case involving someone accused of shooting a deputy sheriff in an attempted escape from custody.
Read MoreEarlier this morning Judge Jonathan Tynes held defendant ANTHONY KELLEY without bail at an arraignment in the Dorchester Division of Boston Municipal Court for yesterday's homicide of 17 year old Alissa King.
Our condolences go to the family of Ms. King.
Read MoreDefendant Charged with Murder While on Pre-Trial Release with GPS for Firearms Charge
Late yesterday Suffolk County District Attorney petitioned a single justice of the Supreme Judicial Court to return William Utley to jail pending his murder trial because he poses a “grave risk to public safety.’’
Read MoreThis decision is a living, breathing ever-evolving document. The Special Master is still very active. Sheriffs must provide daily census reports for each correctional facility and the DOC must provide daily reports of inmate counts and rates of COVID-19 cases at each facility. Those daily reports are reviewed by the Special Master and provided on a weekly basis to the SJC ‘so that the court will be better positioned to respond to further changes in this rapidly-evolving situation.’ This is just the beginning.
Read MoreIn this time of deep uncertainty and growing fear, we need bold, decisive leadership. I appreciate the tremendous amount of work by the SJC and the Special Master to help to create a framework for our Commonwealth to reduce its prison, jail and detention facility population in the interest of public health by facilitating the coordinated and expedited release of certain detainees who are at high risk of contracting COVID-19. To do this, all while balancing the important rights and needs of victims and survivors and the safety of our communities, is a significant task.
Read MoreDear Friends,
I hope this letter finds you well, physically and emotionally, as you adjust to the reality of living through the COVID-19 public health crisis. This is an exceptionally challenging time for all of us, as we figure out how to maintain our livelihoods, school and care for our children, support our loved ones close by and from afar, and manage our own health vulnerabilities or fears.
Read MoreIn these uncertain times, where the landscape is changing minute by minute, District Attorney Rollins is working to make sure that individuals held in custody who are vulnerable because of their health, age, socio-economic status, or circumstances, but pose no meaningful risk to public safety are released from custody. There will be circumstances where the risk to public safety outweighs any justification for release. However, we are committed to working with the criminal defense bar in identifying those individuals whose release we deem urgent and necessary for public health reasons.
Read MoreProposals promote public safety, best practices for CJ response to COVID-19
District Attorney Rachael Rollins today announced immediate actions her Office will take to help reduce the spread of COVID-19 among employees and those members of our community that come in contact with the courts and criminal justice system in Suffolk County.
Read MoreCharges stem from unprovoked violence in Maverick Square
Felony charges issued yesterday against two Revere women for their alleged unprovoked attacks on a mother and her daughter who were speaking Spanish in East Boston’s Maverick Square.
Read MoreLos cargos provienen de un acto de violencia sin provocación en Maverick Square
Cargos por delitos graves fueron emitidos ayer contra dos mujeres de Revere por un supuesto ataque sin provocación contra una madre y su hija que estaban hablando español en Maverick Square de East Boston.
Read MoreDeploying militarized units into neighborhoods creates even greater fear and disorder and significantly harms relationships that local law enforcement agencies and public officials have worked so hard to build and foster. Don’t be fooled. None of this makes us safer. This is being done to strike fear and terror throughout our immigrant communities. This is being done to be cruel and to silence and terrorize people.
Read MoreDistrict Attorney Rachael Rollins will join Fred Clay, who was wrongfully convicted of murder in Suffolk County and later freed after serving 38 years in prison, for a public screening tomorrow of the film “Just Mercy” and a discussion on criminal justice.
Read MoreSuffolk Superior Court Judge Rosalind Miller today sentenced IMER SOTO, 33, of Dorchester, to nine to 10 years in state prison for rape and three years of probation for kidnapping as well as completing sex offender treatment registering as a sex offender, District Attorney Rachael Rollins announced today. SOTO was found guilty Feb. 5 of rape and kidnapping when he pulled a woman who had ordered a ride-share vehicle into the car he was riding in and raped her.
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