MA 'Most Wanted' List Adds Worcester Slaying Suspect: Patch PM

Worcester MA

27 July, 2021

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MASSACHUSETTS — It's Tuesday, July 27. Here's what you should know this afternoon: A Worcester man is the latest addition to the state police list of most-wanted fugitives.An algae bloom was still affecting Lake Cochituate and swimming areas in Wayland, Natick and Framingham.Another local chain of breweries and taphouses bites the dust forever due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This time, it's Beerworks. Scroll down for more on those and other stories Patch has been covering in Massachusetts today. Today's Top Story State police added a Worcester man to the agency's "most wanted" list this week. Jeffrey Beltre-Rojas is wanted in connection to the fatal shooting of a Worcester in July 2020. According to police, Beltre-Rojas, 27, shot Luis Tiro-Romero multiple times inside a Mount Pleasant Street home in the Main South neighborhood last summer. Tiro-Romero was critically injured and died in a New York hospice earlier this year. Read the full story Like this article? Sign up for our newsletter and get it delivered every weekday. It's free! Tuesday's Other Top Stories Water department lawsuit: A former Marlborough Department of Public Works employee is suing the city claiming he was terminated after trying to sounds alarms about threats to public safety, according to court documents. Dolphins rescued on Cape Cod: Nine dolphins found themselves stranded on Cape Cod beaches during low tide Monday, according to the International Fund for Animal Welfare. IFAW officials said they rescued five of the dolphins, but two of the dolphins died, including a calf. The other two dolphins were able to swim away on their own when the tide came in. Beerworks closing all locations: Another local chain of breweries and taphouses bites the dust forever due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This time, it's Beerworks, a staple for many on their way to a Red Sox game, a stop while visiting Salem in the fall, or a trip for those checking out the Hingham shipyard. With five locations, Beerworks has decided to call it quits. Framingham dog thieves charged: In a touching video, Wellesley police reunited a puppy with her owners on Monday. They also charged two Framingham residents in connection to the theft of the puppy. Eat fresh: Patch's 2021 Massachusetts Farmers Market Guide Picture This Left to right: Tom Prasada-Rao, Matt Nakoa, Neale Eckstein, Jagoda, and Eric Schwartz, otherwise known as The Fox Run Five. (Neale Eckstein) The "most famous band you never heard of:" In a musical collaboration they describe as "the unlikeliest of brotherhoods," Neale Eckstein, Jagoda, Matt Nakoa, Tom Prasada-Rao, and Eric Schwartz are playing the rare live show to celebrate the release of their debut album "Strange Times," a timely collection of songs that came together over five years of writing music in Eckstein's basement recording studio. The Fox Run Five, a band based out of Fox Run Studio in Sudbury, will be bringing reverence, relevance, and resonance to The Burren Irish pub in Davis Square at their 7 p.m. show on Tuesday, August 3. They Said It "She's a newer boater and she was having a hard time because it was a real strong outgoing tide, it was a moon tide, and when she started to lose a bit of control of the back end of the boat, she panicked." Newburyport Harbormaster Paul Hogg. A Tewksbury woman tried to dock her 25-foot Tidewater — named "Unbreakable" — in Newburyport Sunday but accidentally throttled the center-console craft up onto the dock. In Case You Missed It Algae warning persists: Wayland officials closed a beach on Lake Cochituate on July 14 after a harmful algae bloom was spotted. The beach was still closed as of Monday, and other parts of the lake in Natick and Framingham were still under threat from the bloom.