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A Concord, New Hampshire, police officer is facing multiple charges for allegedly assaulting a woman and then attempting to conceal evidence from investigators. Bryan Croft, 39, of Concord, was arrested Friday on several felony and misdemeanor charges dating back to an incident that occurred on Oct. 17, 2020, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office. He was employed as…

Authorities in Manchester, New Hampshire are seeking a 23-year-old man accused of throwing a vase at a hotel employee after being asked to wear a face covering earlier this month. Police are seeking to arrest Ayuen Leek, of Manchester, on a second-degree felony assault charge in connection to the incident at the Holiday Inn Express on Porter St. on Dec….

An arrest warrant has been issued for a New Hampshire man wanted for an alleged assault that took place at a Manchester hotel earlier this month.

An elderly man is in the hospital with life-threatening injuries after someone broke into a Roxbury apartment complex on Christmas Eve. Police could hear screaming inside of an apartment where a break-in was reported near Pompeii Street in Roxbury just after 11 p.m. on Christmas Eve. They initially couldn’t get in the building as their only access point was...

A reputed Mafia figure pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he conspired to assault the now-husband of former “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star Dina Manzo. John Perna, 43, of Cedar Grove, admitted planning and carrying out the July 2015 attack during a videoconference in federal court. Perna and Dina Manzo’s ex-husband Thomas Manzo were charged with the assault earlier this…

People in Portland, Maine’s West End neighborhood are being urged by local police to watch out for a man who’s allegedly attacked one woman and approached several others in what’s become a pattern. There have been seven reports of a man in a dark car with a Texas license plate pulling over near women on the streets and trying...

Women are being urged to be vigilant in Portland, Maine, following an Oct. 25 assault and then numerous reports of a suspicious man.

Police released two new videos Thursday that they say show the suspect in a series of recent violent attacks in Waltham, Massachusetts. The first video shows the suspect running south on Prospect Street before turning west onto Bedford Street. The second shows the suspect as he walks west on Bedford Street. Waltham police announced earlier this week that they are…

Waltham Police are offering a $5,000 reward for anyone with information on the string of assaults that have recently hit Waltham, Massachusetts.

Authorities are “dramatically increasing” patrols and offering a $5,000 reward for information about the serial attacker in Waltham, the city’s police chief said Tuesday. “There is definitely a fear factor in our city right now. We’ve never experienced anything like this,” said Detective Sgt. Steve McCarthy, who has been leading the investigation into at least 10 unprovoked attacks since Nov….

Police are still searching for a serial attacker in Waltham, Massachusetts, who they believe is behind 11 unprovoked assaults in recent weeks. Waltham police had said they believed the same male suspect is responsible for 10 separate incidents in which men were assaulted and sometimes struck in the face or head with an object. Police said they have no reports…

Police are still searching for a group of men riding four-wheelers and dirt bikes who were caught on camera attacking a man in South Boston earlier this week.

Boston police are searching for a man wanted in connection with a sexual assault that occurred in the city’s Public Garden over the weekend.

A man was arrested while walking along the breakdown lane of Interstate 89 in New Hampshire Friday night after he assaulted the driver of a taxi he was in, police said. Dax David Duclos, 44, of Hopkinton, New Hampshire, is accused of assaulting the driver while he was riding in the cab on I-89, New Hampshire State Police said. The…

A 20-year-old Staten Island man has been arrested on assault charges for allegedly throwing hot coffee onto an MTA bus driver’s face when he was asked to put on a face covering in accordance with COVID rules, officials said. Alexander Lopez allegedly refused to put on a mask when the driver asked him to put on a mask when...

Police are looking for a man who attacked a woman and threatened to rape her Monday morning in Downtown Boston. The victim was walking at Boston Public Garden when a man approached her, putting his hand over her mouth and trying to remove her clothes while making sexually explicit threats, according to police in Boston. The woman broke free from…

A Massachusetts man is being held on $25,000 bail as police say he sexually assaulted a woman and held her against her will in a tent for days in a remote part of Fairhaven. The woman told local police that, over the course of two days, she was assaulted multiple times and that her attacker stole her belongings in an…

A man accused of attacking a Massachusetts couple at their home over their sexuality has been held without bail after a dangerousness hearing. Michael Cates of Brockton is accused of a hate crime in the incident at a Taunton couple’s home on June 29, the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said. He was found dangerous Thursday during an appearance...

Authorities in Boston are warning the public about an attempted sexual assault this weekend in the North End. Police say the attack happened around 2 a.m. Sunday on Prince Street, about a block from Hanover Street near the Paul Revere House. A woman was walking in the area when a man came up to her and attempted to sexually assault…

An MBTA bus driver was assaulted in a road rage incident last month, Massachusetts authorities said Tuesday, as they sought the public’s help identifying two men they say were involved. The incident happened on an MBTA bus on Brook Road in Milton on June 25, according to a post on Mass. Most Wanted. The 60-year-old bus driver was struck 10…