ANTONIO FREITAS

A Bristol County Sheriff’s Deputy was sentenced today in federal court in Boston for smuggling the profits of Carlos Rafael's over-fishing scheme to Portugal.

The judge ruled Wednesday that there was no contempt of court resulting from Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson showing up two hours late to testify in federal court this past July.

A Captain with the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office was arrested and charged Wednesday in connection with helping Carlos Rafael smuggle the profits of his illegal overfishing scheme to Portugal.

The most high-profile law enforcement official in southeastern Massachusetts will need to appear before a federal judge in September after showing up late to court on Wednesday. Judge William Young ordered Bristol County Sheriff Tom Hodgson to appear for a civil contempt hearing because he showed up two hours late to testify in a criminal trial, according to the U...

BOSTON – A Bristol County Sheriff’s Deputy was convicted today by a federal jury in Boston of smuggling the profits of an over-fishing scheme to Portugal. Antonio Freitas, 47, of Taunton, a Sheriff’s Deputy with the Bristol County Sheriff’s Office and a long-time Task Force Officer with U...

The self-proclaimed "Codfather" is scheduled to plead guilty next week to evading federal fishing quotas and smuggling profits to Portugal. The U.S. Attorney's Office announced today that 64-year-old Carlos Rafael of Dartmouth, owner of Carlos Seafood, Inc...

NEW BEDFORD - A New Bedford fishing magnate and a Bristol County Sheriff's Deputy will be tried separately in court next year. According to The Gloucester Times, lawyers for Carlos Rafael and Deputy Antonio Freitas filed separate motions in November to sever their cases from each other, allowing each of them to have their own trial...

The fishing magnate known as ``The Codfather'' has pleaded not guilty to a variety of federal charges including lying on catch reports and cash smuggling and has been held on $2 million bail. Carlos Rafael, of Dartmouth, appeared in federal court in Worcester on Thursday to face 27 counts...

Federal prosecutors have indicted New Bedford fishing magnate Carlos Rafael and a Bristol County Sheriff's Office Deputy. Rafael was indicted on 27 counts, for charges including conspiracy, false entries, and bulk cash smuggling. Rafael, owner of Carlos Seafood in New Bedford, is accused of submitting falsified reports of fish species his boats had caught, and selling excess fish to out of state b