Mass. man sentenced to 14 years in connection with random assaults, machete attack

Police Blotter: Waltham man gets 14 years for ‘reign of terror’ assaults

A Waltham man was sentenced to 14 years in state prison for a series of “unprovoked attacks” on 12 male victims, including a mail carrier, in November 2020. Clauvens Janvier, 29, was initially arrested on Dec. 11, 2020, in connection with an attack one month earlier on a single victim in a parking garage on Turner Street in Waltham. Authorities say he struck the man with the non-blade side of the machete. Following this arrest, however, further …

Mass. man sentenced to 14 years in connection with random assaults, machete attack

A Waltham man was sentenced to 14 years in prison in connection with a series of random, unprovoked attacks, including one with a machete, that injured 12 people across the city in 2020.Clauvens Janvier, 29, pleaded guilty on Monday to 12 separate assaults in Waltham that occurred over a 30-day period in November 2020, the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office announced.