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  • Home owner accused of murdering burglar free (without paying bail)

    02/07/2005 5:09:05 PM PST · by TERMINATTOR · 120 replies · 2,483+ views
    boston.com ^ | February 5, 2005 | AP
    NEW BEDFORD, Mass.— A man charged with murder after shooting and killing a suspected burglar last year was released after prosecutors did not request bail. Charles Chieppa, 57, pleaded innocent to second degree murder Friday in New Bedford Superior Court. Family members of the slain man, Frank Pereira Jr., 24, said Chieppa should not have been allowed to go free. "We have wanted to see him in jail since the day it happened," Pereira's sister, Missy Cimbron, told The Standard Times of New Bedford. "A life was taken. Regardless of the situation, you should be in jail." Cimbron said the...