BOSTON — A man arrested in Delaware after a woman’s body was found in the trunk of the car he was driving has waived extradition will return to Rhode Island to face charges.
Louis D. Coleman III is being charged by Rhode Island authorities with kidnapping, refusal to report a death with intent to conceal, and mutilation of a dead body. It could not be determined if he had an attorney who could comment on the allegations.
Jassy Correia’s family confirmed her body was found Thursday. Correia, the mother of a 2-year-old girl who lived in Lynn, was last seen early Sunday leaving a Boston nightclub with a man.
Family members do not believe Correia and Coleman knew each other.
Officials spent Thursday searching the 32-year-old Coleman’s Providence apartment and the surrounding area for evidence.
BOSTON — A Boston man charged with kidnapping a 23-year-old woman from outside a city bar now faces rape charges in the case.
Victor Pena was held without bail Friday pending a hearing to determine whether he’s a danger to society scheduled for March 15, at which time he will be arraigned on three counts of aggravated rape.
The 38-year-old Pena was arrested in late January after police found the woman in his apartment in the city’s Charlestown neighborhood. Police say she was crying and had a “horrified look on her face.”
She was last seen near a Boston bar, where she had been with her twin sister and friends.
Pena’s lawyer says surveillance video does not show his client forcing the woman. His brother says Victor Pena has a history of mental health issues.
DOVER, N.H. — New Hampshire authorities say a man who admitted to voting in two states in the 2016 general election has been sentenced to 200 hours of community service.
The attorney general’s office said 21-year-old Spencer McKinnon completed and mailed an absentee ballot in October 2016 in Dracut, Massachusetts, saying that was his hometown. Two days later, he signed a voter registration form in Durham, New Hampshire, with an affidavit saying he wasn’t voting in any other state or community.
McKinnon received a suspended six-month sentence Thursday on a misdemeanor charge of providing a false statement on a voter registration form. He must pay a $2,000 fine and can no longer vote in New Hampshire.
It’s the state’s first conviction from an investigation stemming from the Interstate Voter Crosscheck Program.
MARLBOROUGH — Authorities in Florida say a former Massachusetts gymnastics instructor faces child pornography charges.
The Broward County Sheriff’s Office says 37-year-old Hassan Jawad was arrested at his home in Deerfield Beach, Florida, on Thursday. They say he had worked at the New England Academy of Gymnastics in Marlborough from 2015 to 2017, and was working at a gymnastics studio in Boca Raton.
Investigators said a computer belonging to Jawad allegedly contained photos and videos of boys who appeared to be aged 7 to 13 engaged in sex acts with each other or with men.
It could not immediately be determined if Jawad had a lawyer authorized to speak on his behalf.
SOMERSET — Developers have set the date for the demolition of the towers at a decommissioned coal-fired power plant in Massachusetts.
The property owners of the now-defunct Brayton Point plant in Somerset have set April 27 the demolition date for the cooling towers. The information was announced at a town hall in Somerset Tuesday evening.
Residents expressed concern about the planned implosion, with some asking if it could cause dust contamination.
Commercial Development Co. official Stephen Collins says the company doesn’t expect dust from the implosion to drift into nearby neighborhoods and the towers will be wrapped in fencing to keep debris in place.
Commercial Development plans to turn the former plant into a multiuse site mainly dedicated to supporting off-shore wind farms.
BOSTON — This rat is getting a lot of mouse clicks.
A British tourist visiting Boston captured on video a hungry seagull devouring a dead rat in a single gulp and posted it on social media, prompting thousands of horrified comments.
The video shows the gull pecking tentatively at the rodent before picking it up in its beak and swallowing the entire animal.
The bird then flies atop a parked car on Salem Street in the heart of Boston’s North End, popular for its dozens of Italian restaurants — the rat’s tail hanging from the gull’s mouth.
The unidentified Briton who caught the beastly breakfast on camera can be heard exclaiming: “Oh my God, it just swallowed it whole … Ratatouille?”
From Associated Press