BECKET â It all began with a tip to a freelance reporter at ESPN.
Andrew Zenoff, a California man, told reporter Mike Kessler that he and his brother had attended Camp Greylock for Boys in the 1970s. His brother Victor, he said, told him that, for three summers in a row, he had been sexually molested by the track coach â Conrad Mainwaring, a former Olympian.
Two weeks after confiding in Andrew about the abuse, Victor died in a fall while hiking at Yosemite National Park. He was not yet 18.
ESPN published the story, and the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit assigned to the Berkshire District Attorneyâs Office took note.
The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office secured the conviction of a Pittsfield man who robbed four stores in 10 days in 2018.
Judge John Agostini sentenced Jameail Beckett, 37, to serve six to eight years in state prison on four counts of armed and masked robbery.
In an unagreed plea, the District Attorney’s Office requested the court to sentence Beckett to serve eight to ten years in state prison while Defense Counsel requested five to seven years.
Beckett robbed four stores in Pittsfield at gunpoint between December 18, 2018 and December 29, 2018. On December 18, he robbed Family Dollar, on December 19, Angelina’s on Wahconah Street, on December 27 he robbed Alltown on Tyler Street, and on December 28 he robbed Angelina’s on West Housatonic Street.
‘Violent extremism’, Dalton man has bail extended after photos found on phone of burning Black Lives Matter sign
Updated Jan 22, 2021;
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Dalton native, Lonnie Durfee was in Berkshire Superior Court on Friday accused of violating his bail agreement from the burning of political signs and property in the lead up to the presidential elections, according to court documents.
The 41-year-old Durfee had his conditions extended because of an “escalating pattern of behavior,” according to the Berkshire District Attorney’s office. The conditions were initially in place until Jan. 20. An hour after Biden was sworn into office.
“The Superior Court required that the GPS/curfew provision remains in effect until one hour after the inauguration of the new president,” court documents read. “The presumption at the time was that the political climate, including the rise in violent extremism, would have dissipated by the Presidential Inauguration.”
Clockwise from top left: Bridge CEO and Founding Director Gwendolyn VanSant, Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington, U.S. Attorneyâs Office Community Outreach Specialist Cara Henderson, Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Garland, Federal Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Casey Anderson, Assistant U.S. Attorney Deepika Bains Shukla and Berkshire District Attorneyâs Office Community Engagement Director Bryan House attended a listening session on community safety Monday during Bridgeâs Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on Zoom. SCREEN SHOT BY DANNY JIN â THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE
What does freedom look like in 2021?
Thatâs the question Gwendolyn VanSant, CEO and founding director of Bridge, asked participants Monday, leading off the Lee nonprofitâs Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service on Zoom.