BOSTON
Green Line service partially suspended
Green Line service between Park Street and Haymarket T stations is suspended this weekend due to maintenance and construction, the MBTA said on its website. Crews are working on tracks and signals at the stations as part of the Government Center station renovation project, according to the alert. Regular service is scheduled to resume Monday morning, according to the MBTA.
Jury finds man guilty in plot to kill two
Andrew S. Gordon, 53, a financial planner from Chelmsford charged with trying to hire a hit man to kill his estranged wife, was convicted Friday in US District Court of trying to hire someone to kill both the trooper and another man, both witnesses in the state case against Gordon. According to the office of US Attorney Carmen M. Ortiz, Gordon was found guilty on five counts of using the mail or the telephone with the intent to commit murder-for-hire. He faces up to 10 years in prison, three years of unsupervised release, and $250,000 on each count. Sentencing was set for May 20, according to Ortiz’s office.
WHITMAN
Police seek suspect in abduction bid
Whitman police continued the search Saturday for a suspect in the attempted abduction of a 9-year-old girl Friday afternoon as she played in her driveway. Based on interviews with the girl, the suspect was described as a white male, 5 feet 10, late 20s to early 30s, thin build, clean-shaven, with acne on his face, wearing a black stocking hat, brown jacket, blue jeans, black shoes, and black fingerless gloves, Deputy Police Chief Timothy P. Hanlon said. Police received a call at 4:16 p.m. Friday from a resident of Lazel Street reporting the attempted abduction. Anyone with information about the case may call police at 781-447-1212. Detective Pete Aitken is the lead investigator.
SPRINGFIELD
Funeral Monday for slain police officer
Police Officer Ashley Guindon, 28, of Woodbridge, Va., who was shot and killed on her first day on the job, will be buried Monday in her hometown of West Springfield. A wake for Guindon will be held Sunday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Agawam Funeral Home. A funeral Mass will be said at 11 a.m. Monday in Sacred Heart Church in Springfield, with burial in St. Thomas the Apostle cemetery in West Springfield. Guindon, a former Marine Corps reservist, was born in Springfield and lived in Agawam before her family moved to Merrimack, N.H. She was killed Feb. 27 while responding to a domestic argument at a home in Woodbridge. She had been sworn in as a Prince William County police officer the previous day. (AP)
LEOMINSTER
Man is accused of child rape
Luis Pagan of Leominster pleaded not guilty to child rape charges during his arraignment Friday in Worcester Superior Court, according to a spokesman for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. Pagan was charged with two counts of child rape aggravated by age difference and one count of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14. He is being held on $10,000 cash bail and is due back in court April 13, said Paul Jarvey, a spokesman for Early.
JOHNSTON, R.I.
Woman sentenced in girlfriend’s death
A Johnston woman has been sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in the 2014 shooting death of her girlfriend, according to the office of state Attorney General Peter Kilmartin. Sendra Beauregard, 43, was found guilty by a Providence Superior Court jury last November of second-degree murder and discharging a firearm that resulted in the death of Pamela Donahue, 50. Investigators found several hostile and threatening text messages Beauregard sent to Donahue in the days leading up to the killing. Police also found a spent shell casing on the floor of Beauregard’s car. (AP)
