Are Puppies Livestock? Mass. Judge Says They Are
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Are Puppies Livestock?
There’s little debate that horses, chickens and pigs fall squarely within the definition of agricultural animals. But this week, a Massachusetts judge added another animal to the list of what’s considered livestock: puppies.
The ruling from Middlesex Superior Court Judge Christopher Barry-Smith came after officials in the central Massachusetts town of Ashby attempted to shut down a designer dog breeding operation. The decision followed a year and a half of controversy. The next door neighbors, who intervened in the court case, moved out.
Kimberly Clinton owns a 24/7 operation that breeds bernedoodles a mix of Bernese Mountain dogs and poodles that bear a striking resemblance to teddy bears. Her Massachusetts Bernedoodles is a lucrative, robust enterprise, with over two dozen breeding dogs, 22 employees and a nursery. A single Bernedoodle puppy can fetch up to $6,500.
Two weeks into a test run, Mass. jury trials go on pause
By Tonya Alanez Globe Staff,Updated January 25, 2021, 6:11 p.m.
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Joe Raymond wipes down and sanitizes railings in the courtroom after a trial in District Court in Lowell, one of the first jury trials since the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic closed courts in March. (David L Ryan/Globe Staff )David L. Ryan/Globe Staff
After conducting five jury trials over the last two weeks, Massachusetts trial courts have opted to put the proceedings on hold from Tuesday until Feb. 12, court officials said.
âDuring the pause, the courts will review and analyze the trials conducted so far,â said Jennifer Donahue, trial court spokeswoman.
Two indicted for running brothels in Framingham homes Share Updated: 10:05 PM EST Jan 15, 2021 General area where alleged brothel was located.
TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 10:05 PM EST Jan 15, 2021 Grand jurors handed up indictments this week against a man and a woman accused of running brothels and human trafficking out of two Framingham homes. The statewide grand jury on Thursday indicted Samuel Artunduaga Herrera, 47, of Queens, New York, and Alejandra Arguello-Uribe, 38, of Framingham, on charges including trafficking persons for sexual servitude, maintaining a house of prostitution, keeping a house of ill fame and conspiracy, Attorney General Maura Healey announced.Both Herrera and Arguello-Uribe were arrested in September. Healey said that Massachusetts State Police assigned to her office began to investigate this case in 2019, after receiving a referral from the Framingham Police Department. During the course of the inves
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Eric Tran Thai, 36, pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of child pornography on Monday for incidents in which he sat in a stall in boys’ rooms at Boston Latin School in 2017 and surreptitiously took videos of students, the US Attorney’s office reported.
Thai is now scheduled for sentencing on May 13 on two counts of possession of child pornography. He had initially also been charged with sexual exploitation of minors, but that was dropped in a superseding set of charges prosecutors filed on Monday.
According to court documents, Thai somehow managed to get into the school ten times between February and December 2017 to make his videos via a camera in a backpack he had placed on the floor near a stall separator - or at urinals.