Incidents in connection with a fistfight, a sideswiped car and a fight with a machete make up the criminal history of a Shrewsbury person charged with shooting a man near a pond on Thursday.

Snehal A. Srivastava, 26, was charged with one count of armed assault to murder and two counts of carrying a firearm without a license.

On Friday, Westborough District Court Judge Jennifer Stark entered a not guilty plea on their behalf and ordered that Srivastava, who was not in the courtroom, be held without bail.

The day before, Srivastava shot Kevin Doherty, 56, several times in the area of 72 Edgewater Ave. near Jordan Pond in Shrewsbury, prosecutors said. Doherty was taken to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester and was pronounced dead. Srivastava was arrested by Shrewsbury police at their home.

Assault and battery

Documents from Westborough District Court show that Srivastava was first charged with assault and battery on Nov. 14, 2018. A three-sentence-long police report says Srivastava punched their brother in the face at their Shrewsbury home.

“I observed a cut above the victim’s left eye which the victim stated was from [Srivastava] punching him,” Shrewsbury police officer Ryan Chartrand wrote in the police report.

Following a pretrial probation hearing May 14, 2019, the case was dismissed, according to court records.

Home invasion

Srivastava was next charged with three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon and one count of home invasion on Feb. 5, 2020. Earlier that morning, Srivastava entered a home on Cranbrook Road in Shrewsbury with a hammer, Officer Daniel J. Cronin wrote in a report. The people inside were “in fear of being injured,” and a struggle ensued.

Srivastava got into a car and drove off until police arrested them on Dartmoor Drive at Prospect Street, Cronin wrote. They were acquitted following a bench trial on Oct. 28, 2020.

Hit and run

More than a year later, at 10:45 p.m. on June 17, 2021, Massachusetts State Police trooper Joao Barros was on patrol on Interstate 290 when he was notified of a hit-and-run before Exit 19 in Northborough, on the westbound side, according to Barros’ report.

Barros met with a man, who said a sedan followed him, sideswiped his car and drove off, Barros wrote. The man said he had left a party on Cranbrook Drive in Shrewsbury and drove past a few houses when the sedan started to tailgate him and followed him to the highway. Once on I-290, the sedan sideswiped him and damaged his car before it drove off, he said.

Barros and another trooper went to the house on Cranbrook Drive, where the party was held, to talk to the homeowners, he continued. The troopers spoke with Srivastava’s father, who confirmed the sedan described by the man belonged to Srivastava and that they would soon be home.

Srivastava returned home and admitted to the troopers that they tailgated the man’s car after he cut Srivastava off on the highway, Barros wrote. They claimed the man tailgated them and that their cars made contact. Srivastava did not stop because they feared for their safety.

Srivastava was charged with leaving the scene of property damage and pleaded not guilty on Feb. 23, 2022. The Worcester County District Attorney’s office later requested that the charges be dismissed on May 19, 2023.

Machete assault

Srivastava’s most recent court appearance was scheduled for July 2025 in connection with an incident on Sept. 13, 2022.

At around 6:20 p.m., several Westborough police officers were dispatched to the closed Regal Cinema at 233 Turnpike Road. Officers initially were notified of an “active fight in progress where a baseball bat is involved,” Officer Joseph Lawer wrote.

Lawer spoke with the victim, a man, who said he was in a parking lot when a Toyota Camry, driven by Srivastava, circled his car, the officer wrote. The man told Srivastava to get out and stop what they were doing.

The man noticed Srivastava had a machete with them, and he “feared that he will be assaulted,” Lawer wrote.

Srivastava tried to get out of their car but the man held on to the door to stop them from getting out, but was unsuccessful. Srivastava got out and “a tussle ensued.”

Srivastava cut the man’s right hand with the machete during the altercation and drove off, Lawer wrote. After Lawer arrived, he wrapped the man’s hand with gauze to slow the bleeding until Westborough firefighters arrived.

Lawer and other Westborough police officers went to Srivastava’s home and arrested them there, the officer wrote.

The next day, Srivastava was charged in Westborough District Court with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, disorderly conduct, assault with a dangerous weapon and mayhem.

This incident was intended to go to a bench trial in July 2025 but was dismissed due to “lack of prosecution,” according to court records.

Srivastava is scheduled to appear at a detention hearing for the Shrewsbury case on Sept. 12.

A woman who police say left a “suspicious device” in a Concord convenience store Thursday evening has been arrested, according to police.

The Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad has determined that the suitcase she left in the store did not contain explosives, Concord police said in a press release.

Concord firefighters were called to the Dunkin’ at 1641 Sudbury Road for a report of a fire alarm activation shortly before 7:15 p.m., police said. At the coffee shop, firefighters discovered that a woman “maliciously” pulled two of its fire alarms, then left the store.

Soon after, the same woman went next door to Nine Acre Farm convenience store, where she made threatening statements and left a suitcase on the floor, then fled in a car, police said. At the time, both the convenience store and the Dunkin were closed to customers.

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After police were called to the convenience store, they evacuated all businesses within 300 feet as a precaution, police said. The state police bomb squad then evaluated the suitcase while Concord police searched for the woman.

A short time later, investigators discovered that the woman had run from her car after it crashed on South Great Road in Lincoln, police said. Concord, Lincoln and State Police then searched the area and found her in a nearby wooded area.

The woman is now in police custody, but authorities are not releasing her identity until they have criminally charged her, police said. The incident remains under investigation by Concord police.

CVS Pharmacy has reached a $12.25 million settlement with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office over allegations that it failed to offer the state’s Medicaid program its lowest drug prices, as is required by state law, the attorney general’s office announced Tuesday.

CVS Pharmacy said in a statement that it was pleased to have settled the lawsuit, but noted that the claims only involve Massachusetts’ unique regulations regarding charging MassHealth — the state’s Medicaid program — its lowest drug prices.

“The agreement is not an admission of liability or wrongdoing and was agreed upon to avoid the time and expense of further litigation with Massachusetts,” the statement reads. “We’ll continue vigorously defending against the claims concerning CVS Pharmacy’s usual and customary pricing brought by remaining plaintiffs in the case.”

The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office, along with three other state attorneys general offices, began investigating the allegations after a whistleblower lawsuit was filed in a federal court in D.C., the attorney general’s office said in a press release. The three attorneys general offices filed a joint lawsuit against the pharmacy company in April.

The lawsuit alleged that CVS Pharmacy offered lower drug prices to cash-paying customers through a discount program administered by a company called ScriptSave, but evaded its responsibility to report and bill Medicaid programs the lower, discounted rates, the attorney general’s office said.

The pharmacy company is accused of contracting with ScriptSave to target former customers of CVS’s discount card program, Health Savings Pass and those who visited former Target pharmacies — which CVS had acquired — to join the discount program, the attorney general’s office said. As a result, MassHealth was often charged higher drug prices than these customers — even for generic drugs.

“When pharmacies overcharge MassHealth, they’re undermining the integrity of our public programs and leaving taxpayers to foot the bill,” Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell said in the release.

As part of the settlement, CVS Pharmacy agreed to adopt a yearly reconciliation process in which they review prescription drug pricing for MassHealth members to ensure that MassHealth is not overcharged in the future, the attorney general’s office said.