Police Statement: This evening at approximately 6:10pm, officers responded to a call for shots fired in the area of the 135 Restaurant & Lounge (672 Waverly St). Upon arrival they located the suspect in a vehicle on Bridges St. After a standoff, officers were able to take the suspect into custody. No one was injured
Court Documents show Joe Samba may have retaliated against some employees and sought to cover up Fair Labor Law violations; the former China Gourmet also implicated
In late December 2023, Benjamin Botts, Office of the Solicitor for the US Department of Labor filed an complaint with the US District Court of Massachusetts on behalf of the Department against the 5 Starts Restaurant Group, doing business as Samba Steak and Sushi. Three charges are noted, count one, Violations of Sections 7 &
A FOIA Request came in, and Framingham instead of responding accordingly, discussed with municipalities across the state, to devise ways to not respond accordingly.
A FOIA request came in on March 26, 2024: From: Commonwealth Transparency<info@opencommonwealth.org>Date: Tue, Mar 26, 2024 at 5:01?PMSubject: Public records request under the Massachusetts Public Records Law M.G.L. c66, § 10To: Commonwealth Transparency <info@opencommonwealth.org> Greetings: This is a formal public records request under the Massachusetts Public Records Law M.G.L. c66, § 10: Please provide the following documents/records for your District for the time period February 1, 2024
Another Framingham Document Fraud Star
Earlier this month, a Framingham realty business owner, via a plea agreement, she pled guilty to swindling the federal government out of $450,000 in pandemic relief funds. These funds were loans intended to fund payrolls and keep small businesses operational during the pandemic. Between April 2020 and November 2022, she filed multiple applications through various
A FIRST LOOK: Horton-Stimpson as the new Citizen Participation Officer
The Citizen Participation Officer (CPO) proposed will be discussed and voted on by the city council over the next weeks. Nicole Horton, if accepted by council, will replace Heather Gutierrez who left her post at the end of 2023. She served in that role for under a year. The Citizen Participation Officer develops and implements
Owners of Framingham’s H&R Roofing Indicted in Scheme to Defraud their Workers Comp Carrier
The owners of H&R Supply/H&R Roofing, have been indicted and arrested. Ronaldo Solano, 51, and Adriana Solano, 40 were indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston with one count each of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire and bank fraud. They were arrested last Wednesday.
A First Look: Street Kitchen Express
Sunwave Inc, seeks to open a restaurant in the site of the former Hot Breads on Worcester Road. Sunwave is the parent/corporation which owns and operates Street Kitchen, an Indian eatery, with a single location currently in Marlborough on Main Street. Sunwave is operated by Tarang Jain and Bhaskar Velamakanni. A Common Victualler (CV) license
Ashland Police Chief Cara Rossi administrative leave public messaging discussion emails
See our initial post on the administrative leave back a month ago:
Thomas ‘TJ’ Method’s Arrest Warrant, Criminal Complaint, Orders of Release
All legal filings in this matter are up to date as of Feb 15, 2024
Framingham Fire Department types of calls by year
Please note that the Fire Department transitioned Record Management Software on 9/13/2022 from “FireHouse” to “ESO Fire RMS”. Therefore, there are three reports for Calendar Year 2022 – one for FireHouse (1/1/2022-9/12/2022), one for ESO (9/13/2022-12/31/2022), and a compilation totaling for 2022. 2023 2022 2021
The Green at 9 & 90 Preliminary Fire Report
“Due to the need of several interested parties, the operational portion of the fire report for this fire is being released. Per G. L. c. 4, § 7(26)(f), and lack of an actual record of such, the Fire Origin & Cause investigation portion of the report will be released when the investigation is complete.”