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Five Holyoke officers promoted to new supervisory positions
02-18-2022 10:14 AM

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — Five Holyoke Police Department officers were promoted to new supervisory positions on Wednesday in a ceremony at City Hall.The promotions were made in part to deal with what police leadership say is a staffing crunch in its higher ranks....


Internal affairs: Complaints against Northampton police by fellow officers usually resulted in discipline, but most by the public were dismissed
12-18-2021 7:01 AM

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN and GRETA JOCHEM

NORTHAMPTON — When it comes to investigating its own, the Northampton Police Department rarely disciplines an officer who is named in a civilian complaint. When a superior officer or fellow Northampton officer files an internal complaint, however,...


Holyoke officer who alleged corruption, OT abuse is fired
11-17-2021 1:13 PM

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — Last week, the city’s acting mayor fired a police officer who earlier this year posted a viral video on social media alleging corruption and racism within the Holyoke Police Department.In March, Rafael Roca, who had been a Holyoke police...


Records detail overtime spending in Holyoke Police Department
10-12-2021 1:24 PM

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — Fifteen officers in the Holyoke Police Department were paid more than 500 hours of overtime in fiscal year 2020, including four of the department’s five highest-paid officers, who earned hourly overtime rates ranging from $94 to $109 an...


South Hadley Police Chief Jennifer Gundersen inks new, 3-year contract
08-18-2021 10:46 AM

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

SOUTH HADLEY — The town’s police chief has signed a new three-year contract that will keep her in South Hadley until the beginning of 2024.Police Chief Jennifer Gundersen signed the new contract on July 30, and it will go into effect on Jan. 4, 2022,...


Hilltown police forces in transition
07-06-2021 7:55 PM

By BERA DUNAU

Policing is changing in the hilltowns, and more change is on the horizon.Both Worthington and Plainfield moved to having full-time chiefs this year. Chesterfield and Goshen are considering regionalizing their police departments after the chiefs in...


New Holyoke police chief inks contract
06-16-2021 6:53 PM

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — As Police Chief Manny Febo prepares for retirement late next month, the city has signed a contract with his successor.On Tuesday, the City Council received a copy of the three-year contract that then mayor Alex Morse signed in January with...


Holyoke man arraigned on charge of killing Agawam man
12-14-2020 7:53 PM

By DUSTY CHRISTENSEN

HOLYOKE — Police on Friday arrested a city man who has been charged with killing Robert James, a 52-year-old Agawam resident, in October.Police arrested Felix Torres-Rodriguez, 28, after a detective assigned to a road construction detail reportedly...


Man seeks $850K claiming Northampton police targeted him
11-17-2020 1:55 PM

By MICHAEL CONNORS

NORTHAMPTON — Before this year, Benjamin Maddison said he had never been pulled over by the Northampton Police Department. But during the first two months of 2020, he said, he was pulled over three times.In addition to filing complaints against...


Holyoke drug fugitive Cory Taylor found dead in abandoned city building
10-24-2020 2:32 PM

Staff report

HOLYOKE — The body of Cory A. Taylor, the alleged marijuana trafficker who has been a fugitive since he disappeared in August after making bail at a local county jail, was discovered by police in a vacant city building at 545 Main St. on...


Relighted Mount Tom star signals hope amid crisis
03-25-2020 1:24 PM

By BERA DUNAU

EASTHAMPTON — For more than four decades, a star shining over the city from Mount Tom has been a holiday tradition. Now, as residents deal with the novel coronavirus pandemic, the star is again lighting up the night in a gesture meant to spark and...


Lawyer: Holyoke murder suspect acted in self-defense
01-17-2020 3:03 PM

By MICHAEL CONNORS

SPRINGFIELD — The lawyer for a city man accused of stabbing another man to death in Holyoke last July is saying his client acted in self-defense after he pleaded not guilty in Hampden Superior Court to the murder on Thursday.Samuel Rosario-Calderon,...


Holyoke teenager charged in federal drug bust
01-17-2020 1:22 PM

By MICHAEL CONNORS

HOLYOKE — After a months-long investigation into a large-scale heroin distribution operation, police and federal authorities raided two addresses and arrested a city teenager on drug and firearm-related charges Wednesday. Luis Garcia-Figueroa, 19, was...


Holyoke police arrest two after sixth shooting in one week
01-15-2020 5:11 PM

By MICHAEL CONNORS

HOLYOKE — After a sixth reported shooting in Holyoke in less than a week, police arrested a city woman on unlawful gun charges and another man who was with her on Tuesday night.Leshmarie Marin-Viera, 20, of Holyoke was arrested on charges of...


Florence woman charged with kidnapping, assault and battery
12-28-2019 5:26 PM

By MICHAEL CONNORS

NORTHAMPTON — A Florence woman was arrested for kidnapping after police say she forcefully held another woman against her will in her apartment Friday night.Darbie Lynn Young, 42, was charged with kidnapping, assault and battery with a dangerous...


Aspiring detective, 7, collects all Northampton PD trading cards, earns ride to school
07-03-2017 8:42 PM

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — Just call her “Detective Goldie.” That’s the name 7-year-old Dreya Sawka has picked for herself. She has dreams of becoming a police officer, dreams that the Northampton Police Department’s new trading card program has helped...


Northampton Police receive fifth report of flasher
06-13-2017 4:34 PM

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — Police received another report of a naked man touching himself on the streets of Northampton early Tuesday.The report described a naked man, just after 12:10 a.m., lying on top of short brick wall in front of Bacon & Wilson attorneys’...


K-9 Gino brings special skills to Easthampton police force
06-08-2017 10:04 PM

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

EASTHAMPTON — A glass door to the F.L. Roberts gas station was shattered and the inside ransacked. Some $300 was missing from the cash register, and several cartons of cigarettes and cigars had been taken.Alarms were ringing. A fresh footprint marked...


Southampton Police step up handicap parking violations, 3 ticketed
05-17-2017 9:46 PM

By CAITLIN ASHWORTH

SOUTHAMPTON — Officers seized three misused handicap placards last week in an effort to crack down on those who illegally park in handicap spaces.Lt. Ian Illingsworth said the department typically checks for placards of cars parked in handicapped...


Authorities identify Florence man struck by car, killed
05-16-2017 9:53 PM

By EMILY CUTTS

NORTHAMPTON — A 78-year-old Florence man was hit by a car and killed while riding his bike Monday afternoon.Alan H. Porter was taken to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield where he was later pronounced dead, according to the Northwestern district...

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