From left, Edward Mahoney, Brandon Poole, Mayor Greg Verga, and Andrew Hugel stand together inside Gloucester City Hall. (Courtesy Gloucester Fire Department) GLOUCESTER — Chief Eric Smith is reporting that the Gloucester Fire Department is welcoming three new firefighters. Probationary…

BOSTON – A Danvers man has been arrested and charged with money laundering in connection with allegedly running an unlicensed, “no questions asked” money transmitting business that converted more than $1 million in cash to the digital currency Bitcoin, including…

BOSTON – A Revere man was sentenced yesterday in federal court in Boston in connection with drug trafficking activities involving cocaine. Edgar Castro, 48, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin to 78 months in prison and…

BOSTON – A Wakefield, Mass. man was arrested today for knowingly concealing the source of material support or resources that he intended to go to a foreign terrorist organization, namely the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Mateo Ventura,…

Thousands of pills, $150,000 in cash and pill press found in defendant’s storage unit BOSTON – A Peabody man has pleaded guilty in federal court in Boston in connection with selling approximately 40,000 fentanyl pills. Manuel E. Tejeda, 42, pleaded…