MA Company Removes Insensitive Auschwitz Museum Review: Patch PM

MASSACHUSETTS — It's Friday, May 7. Here's what you should know this afternoon:

• The Rockingham County Sheriff's Office said Friday that it was investigating the death of a Massachusetts man in custody at the county jail on April 30.
• Marblehead was hit with a rash of "hateful and vulgar" graffiti involving racist and anti-Semitic language last week, according to Police Chief Robert Picariello.
• A Milton woman admitted in federal court Tuesday to running a black market marijuana business out of Foxborough, Milton, Hyde Park, and Canton under the guise of a medical marijuana delivery service.

Scroll down for more on those and other stories Patch has been covering in Massachusetts today.

Today's Top Story

Travel website TripAdvisor has removed an insensitive review of the Auschwitz Museum after initially saying it complied with its submission guidelines.

The museum at the site of the Nazi concentration camp in Poland on Thursday tweeted that it had asked the Massachusetts-based travel website to take down a review in which the writer said they went to Auschwitz to "test the chamber" and called the site "fun for the family."

More than 1 million people, most of them Jews, were killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz during World War II.

According to the company, "it complies with their submission guidelines," the tweet said. TripAdvisor later reversed course, removing the review and banning the user who wrote it.

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Friday's Other Top Stories

Boston man dies in NH jail: The Rockingham County Sheriff's Office said Friday that it was investigating the death of a Massachusetts man in custody at the county jail on April 30. Mark Frederick Zraket, 54, of East Boston, Massachusetts, was arrested around 11 p.m. on April 29 on a fugitive from just warrant out of Massachusetts as well as felony car theft and possession of a controlled drug charges. Zraket was scheduled to be arraigned at 1 p.m. on April 30, but around 7:30 a.m., he "was found unconscious and not breathing by a corrections officer during a routine cell check," according to Major Christopher Bashaw of the Rockingham County Sheriff's Department.

"Hateful and vulgar" graffiti: Marblehead was hit with a rash of "hateful and vulgar" graffiti involving racist and anti-Semitic language last week, according to Police Chief Robert Picariello. Picariello said police are investigating three cases of graffiti, which they believed to be related, and are seeking the public's help in finding out who is responsible.

Head of $14 million pot ring pleads guilty: A Milton woman admitted in federal court Tuesday to running a black market marijuana business out of Foxborough, Milton, Hyde Park, and Canton under the guise of a medical marijuana delivery service. Deana Martin, 53, pleaded guilty to in U.S. District Court in Boston to tax evasion, conspiracy to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to distribute marijuana and three counts of money laundering. She's scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 1.

5 rescued off Cape coast: Just before 9 a.m., Thursday, Yarmouth Natural Resources was called to a boat off Point Gammon. Officials said the 23-foot boat took on water, and one of the people aboard had a medical issue.

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Hundreds attend Hopkinton vigil: Calvina Strothers (left) tells the crowd about her daughter Mikayla Miller, whose body was found last month a day after she was attacked by four other teens. "She was my bright and shining star in this crazy world," Strothers said. Miller's family has been critical of the investigation by Massachusetts State Police and the Middlesex District Attorney's office and have called for an independent probe (Jenna Fisher/Patch).

More coverage on Patch: What We Know About The Mikayla Miller Case So Far

In Case You Missed It

More gains in COVID-19 fight: Massachusetts reported declines across all coronavirus metrics again Thursday, with the positive test rate falling to 1.37 percent from 1.67 percent last week. The weekly average death rate fell to 7.6 deaths per day, the lowest level on record. The average case rate and hospitalization rate also fell.