Investigations

A series of hearings starting Friday could finally reveal the names of the John Does connected to a high-end brothel bust in November 2023.

Robert Kennedy, a longtime police officer in Stoneham, Massachusetts, avoided paying rent while earning a six-figure income

The ACLU of Massachusetts says the two religious statues set to be added to the façade of the a public building in Quincy would “plainly violate the Massachusetts Constitution.” Quincy Mayor Tom Koch said the 10-feet tall bronze statues depicting St. Michael the Archangel and St. Florian, the patron saints of police and firefighters, wo...

Questions have swirled over the town of Newbury, Massachusetts, since rumors began circulating last spring about the bond between a police officer and a teenager. Nearly a year later, the town’s police department and school district only recently notified parents of a situation that resulted in the resignation of John Lucey III, the longtime ...

Russell and Linda Callahan hustled out of Westborough District Court on Thursday morning, dodging NBC10 Boston’s cameras and ignoring our questions as they hopped into an Uber. The couple had just appeared before a judge on multiple criminal charges of larceny, forgery and fraud. Meantime, about 10 minutes down the road, constable Allan Gordo...

A federal judge gave a green light to the United States Trustee — the arm of the Department of Justice that polices bankruptcy cases — to depose a Fall River, Massachusetts, home improvement contractor about his financial records. It is the latest legal setback for Larry Westgate, who is also facing a felony charge for larceny related to a failed&#...

An ongoing controversy in Lawrence, Massachusetts, is providing conflicting accounts from the city’s mayor and the state’s former public safety secretary, the person hired to investigate alleged misconduct involving the acting police chief. As the NBC10 Boston Investigators have reported, the POST Commission suspended William Castro&#82...

Concerns about a shortage of air traffic controllers extend to Boston’s Logan International Airport. Federal data reviewed by the NBC10 Boston Investigators shows that staffing at Logan’s air traffic control tower and terminal does not meet the standards set by a group that included Federal Aviation Administration and the National Air Traffic...

New documents uncovered by the NBC10 Boston Investigators show the Lawrence mayor tried to avoid an investigation into the acting police chief, a political ally he had appointed to the important public safety position. Last March, the Massachusetts POST Commission suspended William Castro’s law enforcement certification after he engaged in the vehi...

In the early morning hours of March 10, 2023, Sodiq Folarin Amusat stood inside the Lawrence Police Department booking room after officers had arrested him for disorderly conduct. A neighbor had reported Amusat playing loud music and officers said the 29-year-old was “belligerent and uncooperative” when they arrived at his apartment. On...

As Kris Faivre watched her washing machine fill with brown, murky water, her heart sank. The resident of Pembroke, Massachusetts, knew it was too late to save the bundle of white towels she had just loaded into the machine. “The water looked as dark as Coca-Cola,” she said. “Coca-Cola.” A few miles from Faivre’s Kaijsa...

A firm hired by the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts, to investigate allegations against its acting police chief found that he violated agency policies and state law and has recommended he be fired, according to a report obtained by the NBC10 Investigators.   

Lawrence Mayor Brian DePeña raised eyebrows when he named William Castro as the city’s acting police chief in October 2023. Castro was the mayor’s chief of staff and previously worked two decades a correctional officer for the Essex County Sheriff’s Department. “There was great concern considering his background wasn’t...