A Suffolk County jury found a 48-year-old Dorchester man guilty of first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of a 77-year-old from the neighborhood, prosecutors said in a statement Friday.
An investigation found that on July 26, 2018, Roman Rodriguez-Delgado watched a man deliver prize money from a private lottery to Marcelino Perez’s apartment just before 2 p.m. Rodriguez-Delgado lived across a courtyard from Perez’s Shandon Road apartment building, prosecutors said.
Video surveillance showed the man dropping off money and then Rodriguez-Delgado entering and exiting Perez’s residence three times, wearing different clothes each time, according to prosecutors.
“Perez was later found in his apartment with multiple stab wounds,” prosecutors said.
Rodriguez-Delgado is scheduled to be sentenced in Suffolk Superior Court Monday at 9:30 a.m. before Judge Jackie Cowin, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s office.
Woman killed in Dec. 18 crash identified
Local prosecutors identified a 39-year-old woman as the person who was struck and killed by a vehicle Wednesday at the intersection of Malcolm X Boulevard and Tremont Street in Boston.
Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s office said Diva Helena Pina de Carvalho was pronounced dead at the scene after being struck by a vehicle around 5:48 a.m.
“The incident remains under investigation and no charges have been issued. A motorist involved in the crash remained on scene and cooperated with investigators,” prosecutors said.
Hayden’s office did not identify the driver involved in the incident.
Everett man held without bail after allegedly converting pistol into fully automatic weapon
An Everett man was held without bail this past week after allegedly fitting a Glock pistol with a switch device to convert it into a fully automatic weapon, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden’s office said.
Elijah Carvalho was arraigned in a Dorchester Court Thursday. Police said they received a report of a Wednesday incident “involving rival gang members” in the Central Division of Boston Municipal Court, Hayden’s office said.
Police officers learned that Carvalho was one of the people involved in the incident — which prosecutors did not describe — and was in the Coleus Park area of Dorchester. When Boston police found Carvalho, they patted him down and felt an “L” shaped object in his waistband, Hayden’s office said.
“Upon officers discovering the object, Carvalho bent at the waist to prevent a further frisk. Officers eventually placed Carvalho in handcuffs and recovered 9mm Glock 19 fitted with a machine gun conversion device. The gun had one round in the chamber and 15 rounds in the high-capacity magazine. The firearm’s serial numbers were obliterated,” Hayden’s office said.
Police also found six small round white pills consistent with pressed fentanyl “often passed off as Oxycodone in street drug markets,” prosecutors said.
“These converted weapons are alarming both for their firepower and for their uncontrollability, meaning there’s a distressing scenario of anyone close to the aim area being struck and injured, or worse,” Hayden said in a statement.
Winthrop man arrested, charged with scamming 17 prospective tenants in Malden
A 50-year-old man from Winthrop was arrested and charged with allegedly stealing over $35,000 in down payments and security deposits from people looking to rent apartments in Malden, local prosecutors said.
Kenneth Riel started as a property manager of a multi-unit apartment complex in Malden in the fall of 2023 and over the course of his employment, allegedly directed rental applicants to submit money orders to him for deposits on apartments with the payee and payor information left blank, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan’s office said.
“These thefts were discovered after Mr. Riel’s employment ended, when applicants came to the apartment complex seeking keys or information about when their apartment would be ready. The new manager immediately directed the victims to the Malden Police,” prosecutors said.
Investigators found that 17 people reported providing Riel payments that were “never documented with the management company,” authorities said. Prosecutors said Riel completed the money orders by writing his name or the names of the family members as the payee of the orders.
Riel faces eleven counts of larceny over $1,200, six counts of larceny, and one count of false entries or omissions in corporate books, prosecutors said. The case returns to court Jan. 17, Ryan’s office said.
