REVERE — Authorities say about 7,000 customers lost power when a 14-year-old girl crashed a car into a utility pole just outside Boston.
Revere police say the girl, apparently driving her parents’ car, struck a pole just before 2 a.m. Thursday.
The girl got out of the car on her own and was taken to the hospital but was not seriously hurt. No one else was in the vehicle. Police did not say why she took the car.
The crash is still being investigated but police say they expect to charge the girl.
A National Grid spokesman says about 7,000 customers in Revere, Malden and Everett lost electricity. Most have since regained power.
SPRINGFIELD — A 74-year-old man has pleaded guilty to having sex with a teenage girl.
Walter Brown, of Ware, pleaded guilty in Springfield federal court to sex trafficking and sexual exploitation of a child charges.
Prosecutors say Brown paid for sex with the minor girl on two occasions with the help of a Monson woman.
Earlier this month, Claire Poole, was sentenced to more than 10 years in federal prison for offering the girl to Brown for sex. Authorities say Poole drove the girl to and from Brown’s home.
Brown was arrested in July 2017 and has been in custody since. He faces up to life in prison at sentencing scheduled for Jan. 22.
WOBURN — A Massachusetts woman has been convicted of manslaughter for fatally shooting a man following a road rage incident.
Prosecutors say 22-year-old Graciela Paulino was found guilty of several charges Wednesday by a Middlesex Superior Court jury in the February 2018 shooting of Marc Devoe in Lowell.
Police say the 34-year-old Devoe, of Peabody, and a co-worker were driving on their lunch break when they were involved in a traffic dispute with Paulino.
They say the Lowell woman followed the men before shooting Devoe once in the chest.
Devoe drove for a while longer before crashing into a barrier. He died at the hospital.
Paulino’s attorney argued that Devoe was the aggressor.
Paulino will be sentenced on Nov. 1.
From Associated Press