FALL RIVER (CBS) – Scott Trudeau will remain held without bail, dialing into a Fall River courtroom for his dangerousness hearing Tuesday. It’s a step towards justice 12 years in the making. A federal grant allowed the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office to run hundreds of untested rape kits and 47-year-old Scott Trudeau’s DNA was their first match. It cracked open a cold case from March 2010. “If the rape kit had been fully tested, it would’ve been a hit or a connection in 2015,” DA Thomas Quinn said outside of Fall River District Court. Quinn believes this will be the first of many ind ..read more

BERLIN, N.H. (CBS) — Former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia reported to prison Friday in Berlin, New Hampshire after seven delays. FCI Berlin told WBZ-TV that Correia has “entered the custody of the Bureau of Prisons.” Correia, who is set to serve six years in prison, lost a motion Wednesday for continued release pending an appeal hearing. Correia was convicted last September of 21 counts of defrauding investors in a smartphone app he was developing and for extorting money from marijuana companies seeking to do business in Fall River. A judge later dismissed 10 fraud and tax evasion charges. H ..read more

FALL RIVER (CBS) — Former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia will report to prison after seven delays. Correia, who is set to serve six years in prison, lost a motion Wednesday for continued release pending an appeal hearing. He will now report to prison on Friday. Correia was convicted last September of 21 counts for defrauding investors in a smartphone app he was developing and for extorting money from marijuana companies seeking to do business in Fall River. A judge later dismissed 10 fraud and tax evasion charges. He was supposed to report to prison on December 3, but asked a judge to allow h ..read more

FALL RIVER (CBS) – The former Fall River mayor sentenced to six years in prison has received his seventh delay to begin serving that time. Jasiel Correia was sentenced in September of 2021, for fraud, extortion, and conspiracy charges over his tech app SnoOwl and extorting businesses over marijuana licenses but hasn’t spent a day in prison for it. Correia’s original report to prison date was December 3, but concerns over COVID, prison occupancy, family matters, and time to shape an appeals argument, have all been accepted by the judge to push back that date. “Delays in a criminal case are not ..read more

BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge on Monday pushed back the prison reporting date of a former Massachusetts mayor convicted of corruption charges for a seventh time, but denied a request to allow him to remain free pending his appeal. Former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia II was supposed to report to a federal medium security prison in Berlin, New Hampshire, to start serving a six-year sentence on Tuesday. U.S. District Court Judge Douglas Woodlock said in a filing Monday that postponing the reporting date until April 22 would give Correia’s attorneys “a reasonable period” of time to go to the 1s ..read more

FALL RIVER (CBS) – A Fall River police officer who is facing charges for using excessive force was fired Wednesday. Michael Pessoa, who was indicted on charges that he abused his authority and used “excessive and unnecessary force” during four separate incidents in 2019, was determined to have “engaged in serious misconduct” during an internal investigation, Interim Fall River Police Chief Paul Gauvin said. “The hearing officer found substantial evidence that Mr. Pessoa had engaged in egregious violations of Police Department Rules and Regulations and that termination was warranted. These find ..read more

FALL RIVER (CBS) – An investigation by the Bristol County District Attorney found that police were justified in shooting Anthony Harden last month. Police were at Harden’s Fall River apartment to question him about a report made by his girlfriend in which she said he choked her and hit her in the face with a stick. At the time, Harden, 30, was wearing a GPS bracelet and confined to his home due to charges pending in relation to an alleged assault on his wife in 2019 and reckless endangerment of a child. When two police officers arrived at Harden’s home last month, a male police officer asked h ..read more

FALL RIVER (CBS) – A judge has granted former Fall River Mayor Jasiel Correia’s request to push back the start of his prison sentence until after the holidays. Correia had petitioned the judge, saying that he needed to help his wife and in-laws with their business over the holidays. Correia was found guilty on federal fraud and extortion charges earlier this year. He was scheduled to surrender on December 3. He will now have to turn himself in by January 10 ..read more

FALL RIVER (CBS) – The death of a 30-year-old Fall River man in an officer-involved shooting Monday night remains under investigation, according to Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn. The family of Anthony Harden is looking for answers about what happened when two officers went to his Melville Street apartment to question him about an assault charge from a woman they say was his girlfriend. The assault allegedly took place last Saturday. “It doesn’t make sense. Why show up in regards to a situation two days ago and it escalates with a young man dying. It doesn’t make sense,” said Ha ..read more

FALL RIVER (CBS) – A Fall River Police officer shot and killed a man during an altercation Monday night, according to the Bristol County District Attorney. Police were investigating a domestic violence incident from Saturday when two officers went into an apartment on Melville Street around 6 p.m. There was an altercation with the man and he was shot, according to Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn. Quinn said one officer fired two shots. The man, later identified as 30-year-old Anthony Harden, was rushed to the hospital where he died. Quinn said a knife was found at the “scene of t ..read more