U.S. Attorney's Office

A nurse from Berkley was sentenced in federal court to one year on house arrest followed by four years of probation for tampering with patients' fentanyl at a Fall River hospital and an outpatient clinic.

A 38-year-old Pittsfield man has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for felony assault of an officer during the breach of the U.S. Capitol in 2021, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

A Fall River police officer has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly assaulting a man in police custody with a baton, and for allegedly filing false reports on the incident.

A Fall River serial bank robber caught while allegedly trying to rob a bank earlier this fall has been federally charged with another bank robbery — his third in just ten days, according to authorities.

A former Fall River resident was indicted on Thursday by a federal grand jury on aggravated identity theft and fraud conspiracy charges, after he allegedly used stolen identities to open and sell rideshare and delivery driver accounts nationwide.

The owner of an Abington paving company will spend one year in prison and pay nearly $785,000 in restitution after he was sentenced Monday on federal tax evasion charges, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

A Taunton man has been caught in Rhode Island and will be held on federal enticement and child pornography charges, after he allegedly arranged with someone he believed to be the father of a nine-year-old girl to have sex with the child.

A Buzzards Bay man has pleaded guilty to his role in a violent kidnapping related to a Cape Cod heroin trafficking ring, in which he and four others took a man to Rhode Island before stripping him naked and assaulting him, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.

A Brockton man the Department of Justice called a career criminal faces a mandatory 10-year sentence, after pleading guilty Wednesday to dealing fentanyl while on probation for another federal conviction.

A Brockton man sentenced Sept. 28 for his role in a massive drug trafficking operation that sold narcotics over the dark web will spend two and a half years in prison — and will have to hand over his BMW.