Police: Middletown man accused of 2 shootings in 4 days
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Antwan RufusContributed photo / Middletown Police Department
MIDDLETOWN The man charged in connection with a May 1 shooting near downtown, where the victim was hit in the leg multiple times, was rearrested Tuesday for his apparent role in a gunfire incident several days earlier, police said.
A number of people were in the area of Maplewood Terrace when the April 28 late-night shooting occurred, but no one was injured, authorities said.
Antwan Rufus, 33, of Main Street, was charged with suspicion of first-degree criminal attempt to commit assault, criminal possession of a firearm, unlawful discharge of a firearm, first-degree reckless endangerment, and commission of an A, B, or C felony with a firearm.
EMS workers to be honored in Meriden
EMS workers to be honored in Meriden
Hunterâs Ambulance personnel will be honored during a ceremony in Meriden today.File photo, Record-Journal Advertisement By Faith Williams, Record-Journal staff
By Faith Williams
Record-Journal staff
MERIDENÂ â Four Hunterâs Ambulance employees will be honored during National Emergency Medical Services Week after successfully navigating a dangerous situation involving a co-worker.Â
âEMS Week is a time to to thank paramedics, EMTs and the entire EMS workforce for their service and sacrifice,â city officials said in a statement. âIt is also an opportunity to continue to raise public awareness about the critical role of EMS in the community.â
SHERBORN – Former Sherborn Police Chief Richard Thompson said the allegations used against him by the town to fire him in October have made him “unemployable” to ever work in law enforcement again.
“This has been an extremely trying experience,” said Thompson on Friday. “I’ve dealt with and fought cancer twice in my life. Without question, this was far more taxing on myself and my family, my friends and my colleagues. I’ve never been more uncomfortable, sick to my stomach, embarrassed belittled.”
Through his attorney Joseph Sulman, Thompson filed a lawsuit in Middlesex Superior Court earlier this month against the town of Sherborn, Town Administrator David Williams, Interim Police Chief David Bento, the then-members of the Selectboard who terminated his contract – Jeff Waldron, Charles Yon, George Morrill and Paul Derenis – as well as an attorney hired by the town, Maura Gallagher.
WOBURN – A former Holliston “Citizen of the Year,” who served 12 years as a town selectman, is accused of misusing clients money when he was an attorney.
Andrew Porter, 58, who now lives in Whitinsville, pleaded not guilty at his Middlesex Superior Court arraignment on Thursday to four counts of larceny by false pretense of more than $250. He is accused of using more than $71,000 of fraudulently obtained money for his own use.
Judge Helene Kazanjian released Porter without bail, but ordered him to not engage in selling securities, loans and other investments. He is due back in court on June 11.
Porter had already been disbarred for the financial fraud. In 2018, the Massachusetts Board of Bar Overseers disbarred Porter, alleging financial misconduct. That included billing his former firm and clients for personal expenses, intentional misuse of client trust account funds, and keeping a client’s retainer instead of giving it to his firm.
Trial for ex-teacher charged with assault postponed
Former Concord teacher Howie Leung appeared in court in Newton, Mass. on Nov. 6, 2019. Eileen O Grady
Published: 5/2/2021 1:00:05 PM
The criminal trial for former Concord High School teacher Howie Leung who is accused of sexually assaulting a Concord student here and at a boarding school in Massachusetts has been postponed again, this time until next winter.
The jury trial, which was set to begin Tuesday at Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn, Mass., has been rescheduled for Jan. 25, 2022, with a pre-trial conference on Jan. 14.
The schedule of jury trials has been backed up in Massachusetts since last year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jury trials were halted in the state in March 2020 when the pandemic hit, and did not resume again until Jan. 2021, meaning many trials have been delayed far into the future.