SPRINGFIELD — A man police say had a homemade machine gun among an arsenal of weapons in his home has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison.
Edward Laboursoliere was sentenced Monday.
The 51-year-old Holyoke man was arrested in 2018 after his wife called police. Officers found dozens of weapons, hundreds of rounds of ammunition and a partially built pipe bomb in the home he shared with his wife and three children.
He pleaded guilty in March to illegally manufacturing the machine gun in his basement in violation of the National Firearms Act.
Laboursoliere’s attorney argued that his client was a hobbyist who never intended to harm anyone.
Laboursoliere told the judge he had “no ill intent or malicious intent toward anyone.”
He still faces state charges.
LOWELL — A man who founded a home for young women battling drug addiction in honor of his late daughter has been charged with making his way into a high school and assaulting three women.
Timothy Grover, of Dracut, was held without bail at his arraignment Tuesday a day after authorities say he followed a woman into Lowell High School and threatened to rape her then assaulted two others. Prosecutors say he fought with police during his arrest outside the building. He pleaded not guilty.
School was not in session but some faculty and staff were on the scene.
The 55-year-old Grover founded the Megan House Foundation, a drug treatment home. The foundation says he is no longer affiliated with the facility.
Grover’s attorney says his client denies the charges “in their entirety.”
LYNN — Two men charged in connection with a fatal weekend shooting at a playground have pleaded not guilty.
The Lynn shooting at about 7:20 p.m. Saturday left 34-year-old Brandon Jesurum dead and three other people injured.
The Essex district attorney’s office says 43-year-old Rogelleo Morrison is charged with murder and 25-year-old Luis Falcon is charged with being an accessory after the fact of murder.
Prosecutors say a third suspect remains at-large.
The Daily Item reports that Morrison and Falcon were arraigned Monday and held without bail.
Morrison’s attorney, Mark Miliotis, says authorities have the wrong man and there is no evidence tying his client to the shooting.
Falcon’s attorney could not be reached.
The injured include an 18-year-old woman, a 20-year-old woman and a 49-year-old man whose dog was killed.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The final suspect sought in connection with what authorities described as a scheme that defrauded several banks in Rhode Island and Massachusetts out of about $1 million has been caught.
U.S. Attorney Aaron Weisman says 20-year-old Edmilson Rodrigues, of Providence, was found sleeping in a vehicle in a Culver City, California, on Aug. 19 with phony driver’s licenses, Social Security numbers and credit cards.
Rodrigues was among seven people sought in connection with a “card cracking” scheme, in which people create counterfeit checks and recruit complicit bank account holders who allow use of their accounts to deposit the bogus checks. The funds are then withdrawn before the bank can figure out the checks are fraudulent.
Rodrigues will be returned to Rhode Island for arraignment. No attorney was listed in court records.
From Associated Press