SALEM – A Lawrence man has pleaded guilty and been sentenced to state prison for trafficking fentanyl, Attorney General Maura Healey announced today. Luis Baez, age 25, pleaded guilty on Wednesday in Essex Superior Court to two counts of Trafficking Fentanyl. After the plea was entered, Judge Timothy Q. Feeley sentenced Baez to three years to […]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCjpwZ7auzg&feature=youtu.be&h=380&w=280] By: Tom Duggan – 3-20-18 Two men were show Tuesday afternoon at Brook and Union Streets in Lawrence after a fight broke out early in the afternoon. Valley Patriot sources say one man was shot in the neck and was trasnsported to the Lawrence General Hospital. Shortly after the incident, a second shooting victim […]
Paying Attention! is recorded at the Studio 21 Podcast Cafe in Salem N.H. above Two Guys Smoke Shop on Route 28. This is part 2. You can watch the video of this entire interview on Tom Duggan’s YouTube channel. You can watch the live taping of the program every Thursday on the Paying Attention Podcast […]
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By: Joe D’Amore January, 2018 Most cities and towns that are in proximity of Lawrence including those that share municipal borders have eradicated homelessness. This does not mean that they have discovered the keys to resolving a chronic societal ill. Rather, they have intentionally created conditions that make it impossible for an unsheltered individual to […]
State Representative Frank A. Moran (D—Lawrence) today announced that a state grant the Representative filed in the state budget has resulted in almost three quarters of a million dollars in increased funding to hire more police officers in the City of Lawrence. This year was the fifth that Rep. Moran has filed this amendment […]
By: Ira Keltz and Quianna Roy The Massachusetts Department of Public Health reports that in 2016 there were 2094 opioid-related overdose deaths in the Commonwealth, which was up a whopping 24% over 2015. In the first 9 months of 2017, there were 932 confirmed opioid-related overdose deaths and the DPH estimates that there will […]
The Lawrence Police and The Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehensive Team have arrested 49 year old Jose Urena of Lawrence for the execution of Jeffrie Santana-Peguero on New Year’s Eve. Callers told the Lawrence Police that someone was shooting the windows of a van on Reservoir St. shortly after 9pm on December 31st. When […]
By: Tom Duggan – Jan. 13, 2018 |8:10pm Lawrence police were called to Willow Street early Saturday night after another drive by shooting at the same house as a drive by shooting last week. Police report that the home had several bullet holes outside and inside the apartment building. Bullet holes were found in both […]
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QOmbogzrLw&h=280&w=380] Methuen State Representative Diana DiZoglio says she is ready to draft and introduce legislation which would require drug addicts who are given the life saving drug NARCAN, to be committed for 15 – 30 days in a detox or treatment facility. DiZoglio made the revelation on Valley Patriot publisher Tom Duggan’s Paying […]
By: Kathy Runge – Dec. 2017 The city election has come and gone and not much has changed. Mayor Rivera is happy thinking that most of the voters preferred him. We have the usual murders and mayhem. I was surprised by the number of people who came out and said they only voted for Rivera […]
Last month, the state legislature approved giving Lawrence another $1.5M for … get this … improvements to the “rail trail”. For those who don’t know what the “rail trail” is, check this out. Your local and state officials have been spending millions of your tax dollars every year to create pretty walking areas along dead […]
Lawrence Police tackled their last murder of 2017 just a few short hours before the start of the new year. Witnesses told Lawrence Police that someone was shooting out the windows of a minivan on Reservoir Street near Hilltop Ave on the outskirts of the Bellivue Cemetery shortly after 9pm. When police arrived they found a […]
Cashed More Than $7 Million in Fraudulently Obtained IRS Refund Checks WASHINGTON — A illegal alien who had been twice deported and sentenced for re-entry to the US, (Dominican citizen) who resided in Lawrence, Massachusetts, was sentenced to 11 years in prison today after pleading guilty mid-trial to conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service […]
In the interest of better serving Riverwalk Dental’s patients, Dr. Beninato and Dr. Patsi recently made the investment into a state of the art milling unit. Whether a patient desires same-day crowns, inlays, onlays or veneers, Riverwalk Dental can provide exactly what is needed, when it is needed. “Our patients today do not have the […]