Jan. 7, 2011 Leave a Comment
A Chelsea woman was held without bail after her arraignment on murder and arson charges in the wake of the Christmas Eve house fire that killed a 20-year-old living in another apartment in the house. Melissa Pfeiffer, 26, and her boyfriend lived at 265 Spruce St., in a lower level apartment. The fire killed Crystal [...]
Jan. 7, 2011 1 Comment
State Police attached to Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office and Chelsea Police detectives yesterday arrested a Chelsea woman in connection with the fatal Christmas Eve fire in Chelsea. Melissa Pfeiffer, 26, will be arraigned today in Chelsea District Court, charged with arson and murder in setting the fire that killed 20-year-old Crystal [...]
Nov. 9, 2010 Leave a Comment
A 50-year-old Chelsea woman was found dead in her driveway early Tuesday morning, and her husband has been arrested for beating her, police said. A passerby found Theresa Wilkes lying in the driveway of her home at 123 Maverick St. around 6 a.m., said Captain Keith Houghton, a Chelsea Police spokesman. Shortly after Wilkes was [...]
Nov. 1, 2010 Leave a Comment
The 16-year-old Chelsea boy who was stabbed in the heart and killed Sunday morning was identified by authorities as Cesar Jeronimo Umana. Chelsea and State police responded to Umana’s Grove Street home around 1:30 a.n. and found him mortally wounded. He was taken to Whidden Memorial Hospital in Everett where he died. Police are investigating [...]
Oct. 31, 2010 Leave a Comment
Hours after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Chelsea early Sunday morning, police in Revere found a man in a marsh near Route 107 in neighboring Revere. Authorities do not believe the deaths are connected, but Chelsea police have noted an upswing in gang-related violence and are investigating the first death as a [...]
Oct. 31, 2010 1 Comment
A bloody year in Chelsea continued Sunday morning after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death on Grove Street in the sixth homicide this year in tiny city bordering Boston to the north. Police responded around 1:35 a.m. to 60 Grove Street where they found the victim unconscious, with a single stab wound to the [...]
Sept. 23, 2010 Leave a Comment
Police in Chelsea arrested a man wanted in connection with an early morning home invasion. Two others are still on the loose. Firefighters responding to a report of smoke coming from a Lafayette Avenue apartment came upon the robbery in progress when one of the suspects jumped from a third floor window to try to [...]
May 18, 2010 Leave a Comment
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CHELSEA — A dangerous fugitive who escaped custody last month was captured Monday night. Joel McDonald, 20, of Chelsea, had escaped police custody April 22 while being transported to Chelsea District Court. McDonald was being held in connection with a Jan. 21 shooting in Chelsea and was appearing in course to face multiple charges, including [...]
May 13, 2010 1 Comment
A Suffolk Superior Court jury convicted a Chelsea man on Thursday of stabbing his mother’s boyfriend to death during a fight at their Chester Avenue home two years ago. Eugene Teixeira, 23, was convicted on manslaughter for the April 29, 2008 stabbing death of Cleo Wiggins. Jurors found Teixeira’s brother, Aasim Smith, now 18, not [...]
April 30, 2010 1 Comment
In what Chelsea police called “a scene out of a horror movie,” an illegal dental operation was shut down yesterday. City inspectors and fire investigators, acting on a tip, had police raid a building on Essex Street, where they found the illegal operation being run out of a dirty basement. Police found dental instruments, blood [...]
March 13, 2009 4 Comments
An employee of the State Garden produce market in Chelsea was killed Friday when an elevator fell on him. The 35-year-old was working in the elevator shaft when rigging meant to keep the elevator in place apparently gave way and crushed him at about 4 p.m. Police do not expect foul play, but state police [...]
Feb. 27, 2009 2 Comments
A clerk at the Chelsea District Court was busted by the FBI this morning and charged with having sex with an accused prostitute in a courtroom in exchange for promising to help fix a charge against her, the Boston Globe reported. James “Jim” Burke, 41, of Chelsea, was released on $10,000 bond and will be [...]
