Boston Blotter: More on Stabbing of Bill Linehan's Son

This time, it's personal. Sean Linehan, the son of brand-new City Council member Bill Linehan, has told police he was the victim of random violence. He said that, after a late-night meal at Teriyaki House following his dad's victory party, he "accidentally walked into a brawl on the sidewalk."

He was stabbed in the upper back, which "pierced his lung and broke a rib." And his father is starting his City Council term royally pissed off, and we're wondering what changes, if any, the elder Linehan will bring to the table following this incident.

--The gun debate is going to flare up again. We didn't cover it yesterday, but the BPD gathered nine guns in a series of arrests on Tuesday night. Several outlets (the Globe, the Metro) ran different versions of Commissioner Ed Davis' weary statement "It was a bad night in the city" as a headline. Davis noted a link to gang activity.

It's like there's a constant flood of these weapons into the state. Firearm arrests happen so often on the BPD blotter that we can't write them all up.

--Police officers aren't off the hook in our critique. A state trooper and a retired state trooper got caught Wednesday running an OxyContin ring. They had worked in the state police Narcotics Unit.

Glad these creeps – alleged creeps – have been busted. But one of the troopers, Mark Lemieux, actually worked both sides of the law and did a lot of good. In a nice opening sentence, the Globe writes, "He helped to break the code of silence in Charlestown and bring down a murderous ring of cocaine traffickers. He sniffed out PCP dealers in Revere and East Boston. He targeted heroin dealers in Bristol County." But it appears that he couldn't fight temptation.

--Video of a Lawrence substitute teacher dragging a little kid down a hallway, knocking him into a doorframe, has been all over the news. Douglas Tracia was dragging the seven-year-old to the office after the kid refused to apologize after a book-throwing incident in class and ran off. Tracia's discipline left marks on the kid's neck, and Tracia has been charged with assault and battery. It appears that, while the student was a bad boy, the teacher was even worse.

--An arrest has been made in the shooting death of 14-year-old runaway Dymond McGowan in Springfield. A 17-year-old has been charged for the crime.

All charges alleged until proven under law.