UMass Amherst issuing suspensions over ‘egregious violations’ of COVID policies; police break up weekend parties
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
AMHERST The University of Massachusetts will issue interim suspensions to a number of students for “egregious violations” of COVID-19 policies after police broke up a party of about 200 people Saturday afternoon, university officials said Monday.
Amherst Police Chief Scott Livingstone said police were called to the Townehouse of Amherst complex at 50 Meadow St. in North Amherst around 1 p.m. on March 6. Police made four arrests and issued 18 citations to party attendees.
In an open letter to students Monday titled “Egregious Violations of Policy,” university officials said only a fraction of student body behaved badly but that small number of transgressors creates a blot on the entire campus.
Justice delayed: As cases mount in pandemic, many worry how they will be resolved
Hampshire County Courthouse, Thursday, January 28, 2021. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
First Assistant District Attorney Steven Gagne is shown Thursday in an empty superior courtroom in the Hampshire County Courthouse in Northampton. WIth jury trials on hold because of the pandemic, Gagne says he’s not sure how the court system will deal with its backlog of cases when trials are finally allowed to resume. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
By GRETA JOCHEM
NORTHAMPTON About a year ago, one of attorney Alan Rubin’s clients was facing larceny charges in Franklin County and was nearing a jury trial. Then came the pandemic.
Justice delayed: As cases mount in pandemic, many worry how they will be resolved
First Assistant District Attorney Steven Gagne is shown in an empty superior courtroom in the Hampshire County Courthouse in Northampton. With jury trials on hold because of the pandemic, Gagne says he’s not sure how the court system will deal with its backlog of cases when trials are finally allowed to resume. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
The Superior, Housing and District court clerks work at the Franklin County Justice Center in Greenfield. Staff File Photo/PAUL FRANZ
Published: 2/3/2021 5:03:06 PM About a year ago, one of attorney Alan Rubin’s clients was facing larceny charges in Franklin County and was nearing a jury trial. Then came the pandemic.
Justice delayed: As cases mount in pandemic, many worry how they will be resolved
First Assistant District Attorney Steven Gagne is shown Thursday in an empty superior courtroom in the Hampshire County Courthouse in Northampton. WIth jury trials on hold because of the pandemic, Gagne says he’s not sure how the court system will deal with its backlog of cases when trials are finally allowed to resume. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Hampshire County Courthouse, Thursday, January 28, 2021. STAFF PHOTO/CAROL LOLLIS
Published: 2/2/2021 7:02:08 PM
NORTHAMPTON About a year ago, one of attorney Alan Rubin’s clients was facing larceny charges in Franklin County and was nearing a jury trial. Then came the pandemic.
Two arrested at home converted into pot-growing operation in Belchertown
124 West St. in Belchertown, the site of Monday’s search. GOOGLE EARTH
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BELCHERTOWN Two Brooklyn, New York residents are in police custody on a series of drug-related charges after town police officers and firefighters Monday morning discovered an entire Belchertown home converted into a marijuana-growing operation.
With 800 marijuana plants, a growing apparatus and $2,500 in cash seized from the 24 West St. property after police obtained a search warrant, Can Hui Wu, 57, and Huoqiu Wu, 60, the only people present at the home, were arrested on charges of cultivation of marijuana, conspiracy to violate drug laws and possession with intent to distribute a class D substance, according to police.