Det. Kyle Costa

Police in Dartmouth have arrested a New Bedford man suspected of carrying fentanyl, cocaine, and ecstasy following a traffic stop.

A Dartmouth man has been seriously injured in a crash at the intersection of State and Tucker roads over the weekend.

Dartmouth police are investigating a car crash that caused the temporary closure of part of State Road on Wednesday morning.

Dartmouth Schools are among a handful of SouthCoast districts seeing an increase in police presence this week amid social media threats.

Recent incidents like the officer involved shootings in Charlotte, N.C. and Tulsa, Okla. the conversation has reignited regarding how police interact with the public.

A Fall River woman is going to jail after pleading guilty to charges of armed robbery, larceny, deriving support by prostitution and and trafficking persons for sexual servitude. Dartmouth Public Information Officer Det. Kyle Costa says 23 year old Esmeralda Lima was running a prostitution ring out of a Dartmouth Motel...

Dartmouth Police have made an arrest in a sexual assault case involving a child. Dartmouth Detectives on Wednesday arrested a former Dartmouth resident, 59 year old Clyde Souza at his Church Street Apartment in New Bedford. Det. Kyle Costa says Souza was charged with two counts of rape of a child and two counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14...

Dartmouth Police have arrested a Fall River man for assaulting a four year old child he was babysitting. According to Public Information Officer Det. Kyle Costa, officers were called to an apartment Wednesday on Ledgewood Boulevard  on a report of a disturbance...

Another apparent overdose death on the Southcoast, this time in Dartmouth. Police report a woman's body was found early Monday morning in an apartment at the Sol-E-Mar development.  Detective Kyle Costa says drug paraphernalia was found nearlby...

Dartmouth Police have arrested a homeless man after a neighbor reported seeing the suspect in a vacant house. During questioning by Police on Monday, 53 year old Thomas Ramos said he had purchased the property, and in fact had keys to all the locks...