THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2023 Page 19 MIAA | FROM Page 11 percent of fi eld hockey games. It was a vote that has been considered for months, but the call to add a win-loss component heated up this past fall when Everett High football – a traditionally strong playoff qualifi er and winner of 13 Super Bowls in the past 30 seasons – failed to qualify for the Division 1 playoff s despite a 7-1 regular season and Greater Boston League Championship. Everett fi nished out of the money, ranked 18th and behind two teams, #15-ranked Leominster (4-4) and #16-ranked Braintree, both of which fi nished regular season at 4-4, in a 16-team bracket. Six games against weaker Greater Boston League competition ended up saddling Everett High football as the only team out of the 33 teams sitting in Division 1 to have a minus opposition teams rating. Some opinions being fl oated in football circles are suggestions that Everett High continue to be a full member of the GBL – except for football – and for the Crimson Tide to play an independent football schedule, choosing teams more on its own plane of competition. Everett could continue to play GBL schools on the football fi eld if it so chose, but as a new independent, could also choose to go completely out of the GBL for football scheduling, if such a move came to pass. This move was openly discussed before, but never carried out, during the former reign of Everett football supremacy in the 2000s and 2010s under legendary former Head Coach John DiBiaso Jr., whose teams – at one point– won 11 of 15 Super Bowl titles in 15 years from 1997-2012, then two more in 2016-2017. Coach DiBiaso left Everett and went to coach at Catholic Memorial after his fi nal Super Bowl win, in 2017. Revere man sentenced to five years in prison for drug and firearm possession Defendant possessed fi rearm and nearly 30 grams of crack cocaine and fentanyl A Revere man was sentenced on December 6, 2023, in federal court in Boston for possessing cocaine and fentanyl as well as receiving a fi rearm while under indictment for felony charges. Cesar Rivera, 24, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Richard G. Stearns to fi ve years in prison followed by three years of supervised release. In December 2022, Rivera pleaded guilty to one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and fentanyl and one count of receipt of a fi rearm while under indictment for felony charges. In December 2020, Rivera was wanted on outstanding warrants on multiple state gun cases for which he had failed to respond to court summonses or appear in court for over a year. On Dec. 22, 2020, Rivera was located at a carwash in Malden and subsequently arrested. At the time of his arrest, Rivera was carrying approximately 28 grams of crack cocaine, fentanyl and a Glock fi rearm. In October 2020, two months prior to his arrest, while wanted on the outstanding warrants, Rivera and Phillips Charles had a brief encounter with a rival gang member, his girlfriend and their one-year-old child at the Square One Mall in Saugus. After the encounter, Rivera and Charles pursued the victim and his family and fi red at least seven rounds into their vehicle. Following Rivera’s arrest, ballistics examination of the Glock fi rearm recovered from Rivera in December 2020 revealed that it had been used in the October 2020 shooting. In September 2022, Charles was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton to 78 months in prison and four years of supervised release. Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy; the Special Agent in Charge of the FBI’s Boston Division, Jodi Cohen; the Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives’ Boston Field Division, James M. Ferguson; Massachusetts State Police Interim Colonel John E. Mawn, Jr.; and Malden Police Chief Kevin Molis made the announcement. Valuable assistance was provided by the Massachusetts State Police, the Middlesex County and Suff olk County District Attorney’s Offi ces and the Boston Police Department. Assistant U.S. Attorney Philip A. Mallard of the Organized Crime & Gang Unit prosecuted the case. This eff ort was part of an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF) operation. OCDETF identifi es, disrupts and dismantles the highest-level criminal organizations that threaten the United States using a prosecutor-led, intelligence-driven, multi-agency approach. Additional information about OCDETF can be found at https://www.justice.gov/ OCDETF. at 781-286-8500 or Info@advocatenews.net call he Adv cate Ne spapers For Advertising with Results, call The Advocate Newspapers
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