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Josh Lanier

Assistant Managing Editor

jlanier@dailyvoice.com

Josh Lanier started his reporting career in high school for his local newspaper. Many — many — years later, he’s still chasing leads for compelling stories. During his time writing for newspapers, magazines, and online publications, he’s covered everything from murderers to mommy bloggers, but his most interesting story is always the next one.

Josh Lanier's Contributions

Police & Fire

66-Year-Old Unlicensed Driver Charged In 3-Car Crash That Sent 2 To Central Mass Hospital: Cops A 66-year-old woman is being blamed for a three-car crash along Grafton Street in Worcester Wednesday that left two people with life-threatening injuries, police said. Authorities believe Lindora DaSilva failed to stop her car at the corner of Standish and Grafton Street just before 3:30 p.m. and pulled into the path of an oncoming Ford Fusion, police said. The impact threw DaSilva's Honda into the side of a Lexus. The driver and passenger in the Honda were trapped inside their wrecked car, and firefighters had to cut them out and rush them to a local hospital with life-threaten…

10/20/2022

Police & Fire

Suspected Auburn Thief Hoped To Look Good For Mugshot After Allegedly Swiping $21K In Jewelry A 28-year-old Waterbury, CT., man made nearly every mistake he could before he allegedly stole $21,500 in jewelry from an Auburn mall earlier this week, police said. Jaquel Newsome was arrested on Tuesday, Oct. 18, after a quick-thinking cop noticed a suspicious car in the parking lot and trusted his instincts to check it out, the Auburn Police Department said. The officer drove through the Auburn Mall parking lot around 4 p.m. and noticed a car parked in the fire lane in the wrong direction with a license plate belonging to another vehicle. They turned around to take another lo…

10/20/2022

Police & Fire

Lookout For This Man Accused Of Sexual Assault, Robbery In Boston: Police Police are asking for the public's help to find a man they say sexually assaulted someone late last month and robbed another person a week later in south Boston. The sexual assault happened on Sept. 29 just before 3 p.m. on E Street and W. 4th Street, Boston police said. On Oct. 4, he followed a woman out of a convenience store around 8:30 p.m. to 506 E 6th St., where he pulled out a knife, punched her in the face, and then ran away. Boston police ask anyone with information on who he is to contact Area C-6 detectives at 617-343-4742. Anonymous tips can be left by calling …

10/20/2022

Police & Fire

Boston Men Busted Carrying Ghost Gun, Stolen Pistol From Ga Held Without Bond: DA Two men arrested this week on several weapons charges are being held without bail pending a dangerous hearing set for Thursday, Oct. 20. Terrance Potter, 20, faces charges of illegal possession of a firearm, illegal possession of ammunition, possession of a high-capacity weapon, and trespassing, the Suffolk County District Attorney said. Mekhi Young, 18, is charged with illegal possession of a firearm, illegal possession of ammunition, receiving stolen property over $1200, and trespassing, the prosecutor said. Police said they spotted the men while on patrol in the Orchard …

10/19/2022

Police & Fire

Western Mass Woman Chooses Plan Bees To Fight Off Deputies During Eviction: Police A woman was buzzing mad when Hampden County sheriff's deputies showed up to enforce an eviction order earlier this month at a Longfellow home, so she unleashed her army of bees to protect their queen, officials said. Deputies responded to Memery Lane on Oct. 12 as part of an eviction order against Rorie Susan Woods, 55, of Hadley, who was driving away with several manufactured beehives in tow on her SUV as they pulled up, CBS Boston reported. When she spotted the deputies, she jumped out and ripped off the lids of the hives. Deputies tried to stop her, but the swarms o…

10/19/2022

Police & Fire

Belchertown Man Guilty Of Multiple Rape, Sentenced To Up To 7 Years: DA A Hampshire judge sentenced a 42-year-old Belchertown man to between five and seven years in prison after a jury found him guilty of rape and several other violent crimes, authorities said. Erik L. Wheeler was also found guilty of strangulation, suffocation, and two counts of assault and battery stemming from attacks on the same victim in 2017 and 2018, the Northampton District Attorney's Office said. The judge gave him a two-year concurrent prison sentence on those charges, the prosecutor said. The trial lasted 10 days, with the jury deliberating for more than 12 hour…

10/19/2022

Police & Fire

Two Men In Western Mass Busted With 20,000 Bags of Heroin, Fentanyl: Police Springfield police working alongside Massachusetts State Police and the DEA said they scored a major drug bust over the weekend when they found 20,000 bags of fentanyl and heroin. Omar Roman, 48, of Springfield, and Luis Robelo, 51, of Bronx, NY, were arrested on Sunday, Oct. 16, and charged with trafficking more than 200 grams of heroin/fentanyl, police said. The multi-agency task force had staked out a home in the 100 block of Prospect Street when they saw what they believed to be a drug deal happen, Springfield police said. When agents went to arrest the men, Robelo was sitti…

10/19/2022

Police & Fire

Man Who Delivered Kilo of Cocaine, Fentanyl To Harvard University Lab Gets 10 Years: Feds A 38-year-old former FedEx employee who pleaded guilty to delivering fentanyl and cocaine to Harvard will spend the next 10 years in prison, federal authorities said. Dorian Rojas of Boston was charged with one count of conspiracy to distribute more than 400 grams of fentanyl, more than 100 grams of heroin, and more than 500 grams of cocaine and one count of possession with intent to distribute more than 500 grams of heroin, the DEA said in a news release. Federal investigators said in June 2019 that they found a box that Rojas had delivered to a biology lab at the prestigi…

10/19/2022

Police & Fire

Amesbury Man Sentenced To 14 Years In NH Prison After Molesting Boy For Years: Police A Massachusetts man charged with molesting a young boy for several years reached a deal with prosecutors in New Hampshire to serve 14 years in prison, authorities said. Tyler Hartt, 27, pleaded guilty in Rockingham (NH) Superior Court to four counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault as part of a plea deal, Exeter (NH) police said. Prosecutors from two jurisdictions had charged him with one count of felonious sexual assault and ten counts of aggravated felonious sexual assault, Sea Coast Online reported. Investigators arrested Hartt on Oct. 5, 2021, after the parents of a boy told…

10/18/2022

Police & Fire

Judge Rules Woburn Father, Son Accused Of Human Smuggling Released Before Trial: Report A judge ruled that a Woburn father and son accused of human smuggling can be released from federal custody pending their trials, a news report said. The duo will have a bond hearing on Wednesday, Oct. 19. Federal investigators said Jesse Moraes, 64, and Hugo Moraes, 42, who own and operate the Main Street restaurants Tudo No Brasa and The Dog House Bar and Grill, were part of a global smuggling operation that illegally secreted people from Brazil into the US and provided them with fake documents to live and work here. Oftentimes, investigators said, those migrants would …

10/18/2022

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