The Crime Ledger: September 10, 2026

Clancy Asks Judge to End the Case

Attorney Kevin Reddington filed Thursday asking Plymouth County Superior Court Judge William Sullivan to enter findings of not guilty by reason of lack of criminal responsibility on every count against Lindsay Clancy, 36, and block a retrial. Last Friday’s jury deadlocked after a five-week trial (eleven jurors ready to clear her of criminal responsibility, one holdout) and Sullivan declared a mistrial.

Nobody at trial disputed that Clancy strangled Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months, at the family’s Duxbury home on Jan. 24, 2023, then tried to kill herself and was left paralyzed from the waist down. The fight was always her mind. Reddington says the Commonwealth’s own experts conceded serious mental illness and never proved she kept the substantial capacity to know wrongfulness or conform her conduct. Plymouth County DA Timothy Cruz still hasn’t said whether he’ll retry her. Motion teed for the Sept. 29 conference. Clancy is presumed innocent.

Boyce Caught in Scotland Neck

Dennikia Rachelle Boyce, 37, of Emporia, was arrested Thursday morning in Scotland Neck, North Carolina, by the U.S. Marshals Service on a federal flight-to-avoid-prosecution charge. Virginia State Police say she’ll be extradited to face two second-degree murder counts for the July 24 shootings of VDOT contractors Rai’Shon Eugene Delarge, 30, and Philip Avery Wilson, 34, at a Chesterfield equipment yard near Routes 1 and 288.

Marshals and local affidavits place her on Walmart and Sunoco cameras in Ahoskie and Conway within days of the shootings; Northampton County found her blue Honda abandoned behind a Pendleton church on July 28. Scotland Neck police say marshals, Halifax County’s drug-and-gang task force, and local officers took her around 9 a.m. She’s held at Halifax County Jail. Investigators have called the case domestic-related and say she knew at least one victim. Boyce is presumed innocent.

The victims were VDOT contractors Rai’Shon Delarge and Phillip Wilson, killed July 24. Marshals say Boyce surrendered peacefully at a House Avenue home with help from Scotland Neck police and Halifax County agents, and was held in the Halifax County Jail awaiting extradition, WITN and WRAL report. She is presumed innocent.

Atizapán: Meléndez Killings Bound Over

Control Judge Iris Miranda bound Diego Sebastián N and Gerardo N to formal criminal process on the State of Mexico’s case for the Sept. 1 apartment killings in Atizapán de Zaragoza of Jonathan Samuel Meléndez Ochoa, keyboardist for Camilo Séptimo, his pregnant wife Ana Paula Barragán, their 3-year-old daughter, household worker Aleyda Romero, and the family dog. Counts include aggravated homicide of two or more people, violent interruption of pregnancy, and cruelty to animals.

Prosecutors walked the judge through roughly 70 pieces of proof Wednesday, including video of Diego’s Kia entering the Grand Viure / Bosque Esmeralda complex on Bosque de Amates and a later stop in Tecámac with zip ties, gloves, and blood traces in the car. They say Diego, once Meléndez’s business partner, floated a bitcoin score and promised Gerardo two million pesos for help. Both stay in preventive prison at San Pedro Barrientos / Tlalnepantla while a four-month complementary investigation runs. They are presumed innocent.

Thomastown: Two Charged With Hussein Murder

Marcus Jajou, 19, and Lucas Jajou, 20, both of Donnybrook, were charged with murder Thursday in the Sunday evening shooting of Daniel Hussein, 22, in the car park near HR Uren Reserve / Lalor United on Victoria Drive in Thomastown. Victoria Police had grabbed the pair and a 19-year-old Lalor woman in Deer Park about 5:50 p.m. Wednesday. The men were remanded in custody after a Melbourne Magistrates’ Court appearance Thursday evening; the woman was released without charge pending further inquiries.

Hussein, a plumber engaged to be married who’d just bought a house, was shot in front of friends about 7:30 p.m. Sunday and died at the scene. Police will allege the parties knew each other and that the attack was targeted. His uncle Abdallah called the loss “enormous.” Both accused are presumed innocent.

Hussein, 22, was a plumber shot in the car park on Sept. 6. The brothers were remanded to appear at Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Feb. 1, 2027. Update, Oct. 11, 2026: A third man, 20, of Reservoir, was arrested at Melbourne Airport on Sept. 18 and charged with murder, Star Weekly reports. All are presumed innocent.

Taunton: Barboza Held Without Bail

Sienna Barboza, 25, of New Bedford, was arraigned Thursday in Taunton District Court on murder and seven counts of armed assault with intent to murder and ordered held without bail. Prosecutors say she drove two gunmen in her 2017 Mercedes SUV to a Weir Street birthday party early Sunday, cell data and cameras putting her on scene after she first told police she’d been home with her kids.

About 50 to 60 people were in the yard when 14 spent 9mm casings were later recovered from the railroad tracks behind the fence: shots fired blind into the crowd, a prosecutor told the court. Zirovick Depina, 22, of Brockton, was hit in the abdomen and died in surgery; seven others were wounded, one left paralyzed. Barboza allegedly drove the pair back to New Bedford and was later seen dumping trash bags. Two shooters still unnamed. Next date Oct. 7. She is presumed innocent.

Canoga Park: Murder Counts for Mother and Unborn Child

Los Angeles County prosecutors on Wednesday amended the complaint against Walter Francisco Rodriguez Garcia, 32, of Gardena, adding two murder charges in the Aug. 23 alley shooting outside a Canoga Park apartment that left Adriana Jimenez, 22, 16 weeks pregnant and mother to a 6-year-old, brain-dead. Her family took her off life support Friday. Sister Maria Fernanda Jimenez, 24, was shot in the throat and shoulder and is expected to survive.

LAPD says the sisters were in a black Camry in the 8300 block of Northgate Avenue when a gunman walked up and opened fire. Garcia was already held on attempted-murder counts; he pleaded not guilty to those and has not answered the new murder counts in the reporting. Uncle Leonardo Ayala called the charges overdue. Garcia is presumed innocent.

Jimenez was declared brain dead and later taken off life support, the Los Angeles Times reports. Rodriguez Garcia originally faced three attempted-murder counts before prosecutors amended them. He is presumed innocent.

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