Three Worcester Men Convicted of Cocaine Trafficking Conspiracy
BOSTON – Three Worcester men have been convicted by a federal jury in Worcester of trafficking cocaine. Junior Melendez, 41, Juan Rodriguez, 31 and Kevin
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BOSTON – Three Worcester men have been convicted by a federal jury in Worcester of trafficking cocaine. Junior Melendez, 41, Juan Rodriguez, 31 and Kevin
Federal prosecutors are accusing Junior Melendez, a city man they’ve alleged to be the leader of the Massachusetts chapter of the Almighty Vice Lords gang, and two associates, also from Worcester, of conspiring to sell large quantities of cocaine.
WORCESTER — Three years ago Monday, the lawyer who handles appeals for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. reached out to a colleague in Boston to ask about that office’s long-running conviction integrity unit. “We have to get something going here,” the Worcester prosecutor, Jane A. Sullivan, wrote in an email just before 1 p.m. on April 19, 2018. Pineiro alleged that police in those units routinely use excessive force, lie in reports, exhibit racial animus and fabricate evidence, and that Early was violating defendants’ rights by failing to inform them of officers w...