Herald Calls the Weekend News - In December

Back in December the Boston Herald ran a front page story that two had been arrested in the Dorchester quadruple murder case. The Boston Police Department was quick to rebut the claims by the Herald, but after the announcements this weekend we're wondering if their tipster was credible after all. Calvin Carnes Jr. and Robert Turner, both 19, have been arrested and arraigned on charges relating to the murders on December 13, 2005. Each of the men accused have entered a plea of not guilty to the charges handed to them – Carnes for the murders and Turner in conspiracy and other charges relating to the crime. The main-stream press over the weekend indicated that the Boston Police have been investigating the case for the last six months and have finally come up with evidence enough to charge the two. As the AP report indicates illegal firearms may have been motive for the shootings (as run in both the Globe and the Herald)

[Suffolk County] Assistant District Attorney David Meier said the arrests came after a six-month police investigation and an ongoing grand jury probe. He said Carnes and Turner took three guns from the studio and made repeated unsuccessful attempts to sell them in the months after the slayings.

Bostonist is happy to hear that there is some motion in the case revolving around the murder of four members of the group Graveside. With crime on the increase in Boston, shootings up this year and the overall murder rate skyrocketing for 2005 over other years, it comes as some solace that the Boston Police Department is making some headway on existing cases. Considering the departure of Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole it's good to know that closing cases is still a priority for the BPD. Although we wonder if the Herald's initial report of "Two Nabbed" back on December 18, 2005 may have related to the "Two Nabbed" we read about this weekend (May 20, 2006) it's no matter as long as some movement in the right direction is being made.

Yep. Front page of the Herald back in December of last year is the image. They called it - but how did they know? Perhaps "police nab" was meant to be detective speak for "we're looking into two possible" which was supposed to fly under the radar. We always wonder about things that "require" 108 pt. font.