Aidan “Turtleboy” Kearney, a blogger who has introduced a lot consideration to the homicide case towards Karen Read and has advocated for her innocence, has purportedly turned himself in to police on a cost of assault and battery for an alleged Friday incident.
“Attention: Aidan has been framed for A&B. He can prove his innocence, but he also currently has strict bail conditions. He has handed himself into police and is on his way to Dedham District Court. If you can get there, please do. Media is waiting. – admin,” a put up on the Turtleboy Facebook web page said at midday.
Kearney, who turned 42 as we speak, was arraigned Friday on 16 counts associated to his protection and advocacy within the Karen Read homicide case on in Norfolk Superior Court: eight counts of witness intimidation, three counts of conspiracy to intimidate witnesses, and 5 counts of picketing a witness. He had been launched on private recognizance with no restrictions in place following his listening to.
There had been a “Be on the Lookout,” or BOLO, order on Kearney issued by the Medfield Police Department, Kenneth Mello, the particular prosecutor dealing with Kearney’s Superior Court case, confirmed to the Herald Tuesday.
Kearney is the editor and author for the Turtleboy weblog, which has traditionally featured quite a lot of subjects, often taking goal at individuals in Greater Worcester and Greater Boston, however has in current months been primarily targeted on the case of Karen Read, a Mansfield girl charged with the homicide of her boyfriend of two years, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, in late January 2022.
Norfolk prosecutors accuse Read of backing into O’Keefe together with her SUV after the pair spent an evening out ingesting in two Canton bars after which have been invited to an after-party at 34 Fairview Road.
Read’s protection has supplied a hearty problem to that narrative and has alleged that fellow Boston cop Brian Albert, who owned that residence on the time, in addition to Albert’s sister-in-law Jennifer McCabe, are those in the end guilty for O’Keefe’s loss of life and have helped to orchestrate a cover-up. Both Albert and McCabe have retained their very own attorneys within the case.
Kearney is a robust defender and promoter of the protection concept and has produced a major variety of writings and movies delving ever deeper into the subject.
It is in these pursuits that prosecutors say that he has harassed and intimidated witnesses and enjoined his followers to do the identical. Or, as Mello put it: “He’s hiding behind the guise of a journalist to in fact be an activist.”
Source: www.bostonherald.com”