Around the Region: Rare Photos of Shut Malden Hospital Wakefield High Teacher Resigns Amid Photo Controversy

Here are some of the top headlines from just beyond Medford's bounds:

- A Wakefield High School English teacher resigned amid charges that he broke school policy by downloading school-issued ID photos of female students onto his town-issued computer. According to a document obtained by Fox 25 news, the computer belonging to 31-year-old Anthony Cresta, who has been teaching since 2005, was seized by Wakefield Police in late January. Police found several ID-card images of students on the computer, according to the document. Wakefield Police Lieutenant Craig Calabrese said there are no criminal charges being pressed against Cresta and the matter is being handled internally by the schools.

: An inmate serving life without parole in the murder of a Plaistow, N.H. woman born in Melrose was found dead Monday in his cell in New Hampshire state prison in Concord, officials said. Corrections officers discovered Joseph John Sawtell, 31, unresponsive in his cell at about 7 p.m. on March 5. Prison staff and responders from the Concord Fire Department were unable to resuscitate him. Sawtell was admitted to the state prison in 2003 after being found guilty of first degree murder of Crystal Sheehan, 19, who was born in Melrose, and grew up in Danville, N.H.

:The former Malden Hospital - owned by Hallmark Health System - has been in a state of limbo after an effort to build a senior-living center on the property crumbled with the economy in 2008. The facility, which closed in 1999, still had some power running through it when Flickr user Jvelmar - first name "Jonathan" - took his camera into the facility to explore it in 2009. The renegade photographer has entire sets of albums dedicated to his explorations of abandoned buildings, and took shots of the property three years ago.

: After a two-month-long drug investigation, a Stoneham woman was recently arrested and a car, drugs and money were seized from her property, according to a  press statement. On March 2, Jennifer Sacco, 27, was arrested and charged with possession of heroin with the intent to distribute and violation of the drug-free school zone, according to the statement. In January, Det. Paul Norton received a tip that Sacco was allegedly distributing heroin from her home at 515 Main St., police said in the statement. The location of Sacco’s alleged drug dealing was of concern because she lived opposite the , police said in the statement.

A Somerville man has been arraigned on charges alleging that he took video of women inside a YMCA locker room without their knowledge, according to a district attorney press release. Ryan Perez, 24, of Somerville, was arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn on charges of photographing an unsuspecting nude person (4 counts), wiretapping, and possession of child pornography (3 counts). Middlesex Superior Court Clerk Magistrate Michael Sullivan released the defendant on the conditions that he remains on a GPS bracelet, ordered not to have any unsupervised contact with children under the age of 16, ordered not to use devices capable of accessing the internet, specifically smart phones and computers, ordered not to have any contact with the victims, and ordered to stay away from the Somerville YMCA.