WORCESTER — A former Massachusetts man who fled across the border into Canada on a snowmobile to avoid charges that he hid up to $4 million in cash after declaring bankruptcy has pleaded guilty.
Prosecutors say 68-year-old Cyril Gordon Lunn pleaded guilty Monday in federal court in Worcester to concealing assets from his bankruptcy creditors and making a false statement under penalty of perjury.
He declared bankruptcy in 2001, but failed to disclose that he stashed $3 million to $4 million in Canadian banks.
Lunn rented a snowmobile in Maine in March 2005 and fled to Canada, where he remained a fugitive until last year. He faces up to five years in prison at sentencing on May 3.
HINGHAM — Police in a Massachusetts town are searching for the owner of a dog that was left in a cage on the side of the road.
Hingham police say the animal did not have any serious injuries when it was found around 11:20 a.m. Monday. The dog was found with a blanket, leash, toys and food. It had been there for less than an hour.
The dog did not have a microchip. It was taken to the Animal Rescue League of Boston.
PITTSFIELD — Police in Pittsfield are investigating a weekend shooting that left a 17-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the leg.
Police said that officers initially responded to a report of shots fired near Appleton Avenue and East Street at about 12:30 a.m. Sunday.
Officers searched the area but were unable to find a victim. Nearly an hour later, police received word that a patient suffering a gunshot wound had turned up at Berkshire Medical Center.
The victim has since been released from the hospital. His name was not made public because of his age.
BOSTON — Boston police say they have made an arrest in the shooting death last year of a man killed in front of his 4-year-old son at a city barbershop.
Authorities say 29-year-old William Shakespeare was arrested Tuesday in New York City. Shakespeare, of Dedham, faces first-degree murder and other charges in connection with the shooting on June 14 of 31-year-old Marcus Hall.
Witnesses said at the time that Hall had just arrived at the barbershop in the city’s Mattapan neighborhood to get his son a haircut when he was killed. Police have not disclosed a motive.
Shakespeare remains in New York awaiting extradition and it was unclear when he’d be returned to Massachusetts. It could not immediately be determined if he has a lawyer.
WORCESTER — A woman is headed to prison in connection with the 2015 shooting death of a Fitchburg man.
Twenty-eight-year-old Janelle Haley was sentenced Monday in Worcester to more than two years behind bars after pleading guilty to charges of child endangerment and accessory after the fact.
Authorities say Haley was a passenger in the car Andrew Mathieu was driving when he shot and killed 24-year-old Roy Rivera in May 2015. Mathieu and Haley’s 7-year-old son was also in the car.
From Associated Press