U.S. Attorney's Office

A Fall River police officer has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly assaulting a man in police custody with a baton, and for allegedly filing false reports on the incident.

A former Fall River resident was indicted on Thursday by a federal grand jury on aggravated identity theft and fraud conspiracy charges, after he allegedly used stolen identities to open and sell rideshare and delivery driver accounts nationwide.

A Brockton man who pleaded guilty in June to his role in making and selling 19 kilograms of MDMA and other drugs over the dark web will spend more than two years in prison.

A Boston man who committed an armed robbery at a Brockton cell phone store before firing at police during a high-speed chase in 2019 will spend 16 years in prison, according to the Department of Justice.

An ex-FedEx driver from Middleboro has been charged in federal court for allegedly stealing packages containing firearms and then selling the guns.

A Virginia fisherman was sentenced Thursday to nearly 20 years in prison after admitting to murdering a crewmate and attacking others with a hammer aboard a scalloping vessel off the coast of Nantucket in 2018.

Ten people have been arrested on suspicion of fentanyl trafficking after they were caught allegedly dealing nearly 15 kilograms of opioids all over southeastern Massachusetts from a base in Fall River.

A criminal from Attleboro with multiple convictions for a variety of offenses has pleaded guilty to trafficking fentanyl while on probation.

A co-conspirator of ex-Fall River mayor Jasiel Correia has been sentenced to probation and fines after he pleaded guilty to extortion and lying to federal investigators.

A 25-year-old Brockton man has pleaded guilty to helping manufacture and distribute a variety of controlled substances via the dark web as part of a sophisticated drug trafficking ring.