Rape Suspect with Weymouth Ties Sentenced, Church Official Arrested for Alleged Theft

Editor's note: The following information has been provided by local police departments, courts and state agencies serving Patch towns. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, they do not indicate a conviction.

A Mass Most Wanted suspect responsible for committing a rape in Weymouth in 1978 was sentenced this week to 36-40 years in prison.

A Boston church official from Weymouth was arrested on charges of stealing money from the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem Church.

A Weymouth woman was transported to the hospital after she drove her vehicle into the Maple Garden Apartments.

A Weymouth man was arrested after he told police he stole loose change out of unlocked Hingham cars to pay for gas and cigarettes.

The Massachusetts Environmental Police this week urged Hingham boaters to make the long Memorial Day weekend a safe one on the Harbor.

The Animal Rescue League of Boston salvaged an Eastern Milk Snake from a South Hingham yard on Monday.

Milton police received a report of an attempted breaking and entering into a sailboat at the Milton Yacht Club, where an unknown perpetrator allegedly attempted to pry open the cabin hatch of local resident's boat.  

Two Braintree children who were allegedly kidnapped Monday afternoon, an incident that prompted Braintree and Massachusetts State Police to issue an Amber Alert, were found safe later that night in Connecticut. 

State police troopers helped a woman deliver her child in the breakdown lane of on the southbound side of Route 3 in Braintree this week.

Ten individuals were arrested for trespassing at Pilgrim Station in Plymouth.

Plymouth officials this week investigated the cause of a fire that broke out Monday morning during start-up at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, causing the plant to go offline again.

A 69-year-old Somerville man was rescued off Megansett Harbor in North Falmouth.

Falmouth police said this week that they are cracking down on loud exhaust pipes and will be targeting their Memorial Day weekend enforcement in various areas. 

An Edgartown man was arrested in Oak Bluffs for a second offense of operating under the influence. 

Edgartown police officers this week also served and protected an at-risk duckling.