Investigations

Several of the 44 recruits who dropped out of the Massachusetts State Police Academy class that Enrique Delgado-Garcia was part of when he died responded to our requests for comment.

Scrutiny over Massachusetts State Police’s handling of murder investigations has boiled over in the past year. The Karen Read murder trial and the Sandra Birchmore case — only recently classified as a homicide because the federal government stepped in — have garnered headlines across the region and the nation. Those cases reignited passions f...

As the comments to any Massachusetts State Police social media post suggest, it is clear some taxpayers have lost patience with the lack of answers about the death of trainee Enrique Delgado-Garcia.

Recap the controversies that have surfaced for the Massachusetts State Police over the last several decades.

An author who researches homicides in Massachusetts says the Karen Read trial exposed something about the state police that she’s suspected for years. Despite Massachusetts State Police’s high homicide solve rate, she says, across the state, murder investigations are susceptible to conflicts of interest and a lack of oversight. We talk ...

An official with the Norfolk County Sheriff’s Department allegedly violated state conflict of interest laws when he had employees perform plumbing work at his home during work hours, for free, according to the State Ethics Commission, which is now calling for a hearing on the matter. Last year, the NBC10 Investigators looked into the ethical ...

The show cause hearings for more than two dozen people accused of paying for sex in a high-profile brothel bust should be made public, the highest court in Massachusetts has ruled, though the paperwork concerning the cases will remain out of the public eye before then.

Broken bones, muscle tears, concussions, even a gunshot wound — those are just some of the injuries sustained by Massachusetts State Police recruits during their training in recent years. After a recruit died following a training exercise in September, the NBC10 Investigators began asking how many other recruits have been injured during training. T...

Kristin Carboni spends her days keeping a pack of dogs on the move. The Brewster, Massachusetts, homeowner runs a boarding and training business called Peace Love Dogs at her wooded property on Cape Cod. Earlier this year, Carboni and her husband decided to install an agility course to get the canine customers the exercise they need. However, befor...

It’s now been nearly two months since Boston Public Schools unveiled new technology intended to improve the reliability and on-time performance of the buses that transport thousands of students. As NBC10 Boston reported in September, the bus-tracking mobile app, Zum, had a rocky rollout when the school year began. On the first day of class, t...

An Internal Affairs probe reviewed the circumstances of a crash involving an off-duty Brockton police officer after he left a bar at closing time. Even though the police chief imposed a three-day unpaid suspension for the incident that injured a family, Stanley David received a promotion to lieutenant.

A veteran police officer is taking legal action against the Bridgewater police chief, accusing him of discriminating against her in a promotion decision, then retaliating by stripping her of duties and giving her a demotion. In an interview with NBC10 Boston, Chief Christopher Delmonte defended the process he has overseen in more than a decade of l...

Johah Feldman is relieved he is legally allowed to get behind the wheel again. The sophomore at Tufts University was on a family trip in New Jersey over the 4th of July. On the way back from getting ice cream with his girlfriend and his sister, a police officer pulled him over for speeding. Feldman said the officer told him…