Fall River District Court

Joseph Pereira allegedly took a cash deposit for a non-existent apartment then disappeared. Police say he's a serial scammer.

Joseph P. Harrington, Jr. graduated from Bishop Stang High School and practiced law in New Bedford for 25 years.

A 15-year-old girl who had been living in the home with Vazquez and her grandson was taken into custody Sunday night and formally charged with murder on Monday.

A store employee told police, when she confronted the robbers in the parking lot and asked them to pay for the items they stole, one of the robbers lifted his shirt to reveal the butt of a handgun tucked in his pants.

After turning himself in, the suspect was immediately arraigned and ordered held without bail.

The 16-year-old suspect was arraigned Tuesday in Fall River District Court. He has been identified and is being tried as an adult.

Police say the suspect, 28-year old Brandon Arruda was on probation and was wearing a GPS ankle bracelet.

A Fall River man who allegedly threw a punch during a bar fight last Friday that led to the death of an Assonet man, has turned himself in to authorities.

A Fall River man is being held without bail for the May 22nd murder of his girlfriend. Twenty-six year old Scott Rego appeared Tuesday in Fall River District Court, where his attorney entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. Rego is accused of fatally stabbing his girlfriend, Kristina Reis during an argument at their Linden Street apartment...

A Massachusetts prison guard facing heroin trafficking charges has been held on $20,000 bail after pleading not guilty. Prosecutors at the arraignment Wednesday of 40-year-old Stephen Lebreux, of Swansea, said he sold heroin to an undercover state police trooper in Fall River on several occasions, at least once when he was in uniform...