Masked men from New York, Pennsylvania accused of breaking into Worcester apartment had stun gun, weapons on them, police say
Updated Feb 22, 2021;
Police in Worcester said several armed masked men dressed in black from New York and Pennsylvania kicked in an apartment door and entered the unit in the area of Gates Street on Sunday.
Offices responded to the area of Gates Street about about 1 a.m. on Sunday for a report of a break-in, police said. Dispatchers received several calls that multiple masked men kicked in an apartment door and police were told they fled toward Crystal Park.
Eventually, police identified and arrested Vladimir Sosa, 29, and Abraham Carrera, 34, both from the Bronx. Police also arrested Cesar Garcia, 39 of Bushkill, Pennsylvania, who had also has connections to the Bronx, authorities said.
Luis Tiru-Romero, victim in July Worcester shooting, dies; 32-year-old Jose Antonio Merced now charged with murder
Updated Feb 01, 2021;
A 32-year-old man has been charged with murder after the victim in a July 9 shooting in Worcester, identified in court records Monday as Luis Tiru-Romero, died over the weekend, months after being shot in the chest and head, authorities said.
Jose Antonio Merced, who had previously been arrested on assault to murder charges hours after the shooting on Mount Pleasant Street in Worcester, was ordered held without bail during his arraignment in Worcester District Court on Monday, according to prosecutors.
Police responded to the shooting at 6 Mount Pleasant St. shortly after 4:50 p.m. on July 9 and found a man inside the hallway suffering from gunshot wounds to his chest and head, authorities wrote in a police report. He was in critical condition.
Police chief finds 1,000 pills, LSD, marijuana during traffic stop in Rutland
RUTLAND The town s police chief netted a cache of prescription and street drugs along with more than $2,500 after stopping a car Monday afternoon because the driver was allegedly unlicensed.
Jake A. Robbins, 21, of 13 Orchard St., Millbury, was driving on Emerald Road near Rutland Nurseries where, court documents said, he works as a landscaper, when police Chief Nicholas Monaco checked the license plate on his red Ford Fusion.
The car was registered, but the driver, according to Monaco s report, was unlicensed because he had too many violations listed on his driving record.
WORCESTER A former Barre man was sentenced to 10 to 12 years in state prison Tuesday in Worcester Superior Court after admitting to raping two teenage girls.
“I wanted to tell you what my life was like before I met you,” one of the girls told 49-year-old William R. Ahearn before his sentence was imposed. “I was happy.”
Ahearn, formerly of Wauwinet Road, pleaded guilty to five charges of child rape aggravated by 10-year age difference Tuesday, along with several other charges.
In a statement of facts Ahearn did not contest Tuesday, Assistant District Attorney Lambrini Pashou said Ahearn, who lived in a trailer near one of the girls’ homes, solicited them through texts to have sex.