Today, MA State Police (MSP) started investigating bullets fired inwards the Encore capital of Massachusetts Harbor parking garage Midweek night. No I was injured inward the Everett, Mass. incident and no arrests were made.
Cops seized grounds from the garage. They did not particular what they recovered, according to WHDH, a local TV station.
Shortly before midnight, the State Police Gaming Enforcement Unit and MSP patrols from Troops type A and h responded to a written report of shots fired inwards the casino’s garage area,” St. David Procopio, a State Police spokesman, told the Boston Globe.
Police found grounds inward the garage, according to Procopio, but said that they did not trust in that location were any victims at the time. No arrests were made, but law are continuing to investigate.
Crimes Follow Casino Opening
Since opening inward June 2019, the gambling casino has been the view of numerous crimes. Between June and November of that year, o'er 160 people reportedly were arrested or given a process at the Encore capital of Massachusetts Harbor, WCVB TV News reported inward November. However, without a great deal data on ordinary cassino arrests, it tin can be strong to contextualize this rate.
Disorderly conduct, assault and battery, larceny, and cheating were among the to the highest degree unwashed charges at the Encore. Arguments, fights, and motor vehicle accidents are among the most haunt types of incidents that led to a constabulary response, the TV send added.
Among the notable incidents was one that mired multiple fights and rowdiness. Several people were arrested.
Prior Incidents at Encore
In January 2020, quaternary Old Colony residents were indicted in connective with a wild assault Oct 2020 at the Encore Beantown Harbor. One was a gambling casino employee.
The dupe was allegedly kicked and stomped inward the head and torso by 2 of the suspects spell the indicted triple was inward an elevator of the gaming property.
Matthew Haley, 27, of Cambridge, and Jose Mercado, 32, of Beantown were indicted by a Middlesex County grand panel on a numerate of assault and battery by means of a grave weapon. William John Clifton Haley Jr. was also indicted on assault and battery.
An Encore employee, Brittany Dawson, 24, of Stoneham, was also indicted, as was Leilani Reyes, 20, of Somerville on a calculate of impeding a gaming investigation. Dawson was also indicted on acting as an supplement after the fact.
Haley allegedly punched the victim inward the face, causing him to come to the base of the elevator, according to a statement from Old Colony Attorney General Maura Healey. William John Clifton Haley Jr. and then allegedly repeatedly kicked and stomped on the man’s head word and body, with Mercado allegedly assaulting the victim, too. Reyes allegedly watched.
The employee, Dawson, allegedly held a door to the garage unfastened for the men to break loose from the lift bay, and and then drove them off from the casino, Healey added.