Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley and Massachusetts State Police Colonel Richard McKeon today announced the arrest of MICHAEL BRUZZESE, 51, for the June 1 assault on a man inside the Belle Isle Marsh Reservation in East Boston. BRUZZESE most recently had a temporary residence in Cambridge and formerly lived in Hingham.
BRUZZESE is charged with the following criminal offenses:
- Assault and battery on a person over 60;
- Breaking and entering of a vehicle during the daytime;
- Larceny; and
- Unarmed Robbery on a Person over 60.
BRUZZESE, who is currently on probation for a breaking and entering conviction, was taken into custody yesterday. He was arraigned and held overnight at the State Police Barracks in Revere. He will be arraigned today in the East Boston Division of the Boston Municipal Court. The investigation was led by State Police detectives assigned to the Suffolk District Attorney’s office with the assistance of Troop A of the Massachusetts State Police.
The charges relate only to the confirmed assault that occurred on the afternoon of June 1 in the reservation, a state Department of Conservation and Recreation property. The charges are not connected to injuries suffered by an 83-year-old East Boston man in the reservation on May 29. That man, Daniel Pepe, later died from his injuries at Massachusetts General Hospital. The State Police investigation into how Mr. Pepe suffered his injuries is ongoing, and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has not yet ruled on the cause and manner of Mr. Pepe’s death.
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