Boston Blotter: "Assault With a Dangerous Weapon (Remote Control)"

--A restaurant owner was attacked in his own establishment yesterday afternoon in Jamaica Plain. Was it a holdup? A robbery? A grudge? No. He got in a fight with a customer over the remote control. The customer somehow got the remote control and began to "mess around" with the channels and wouldn't stop. Maybe he was looking for the spelling bee finals. Anyway, the owner told him to cut it out, and "the suspect then proceeded to beat [the owner] with the remote control."

--Richard Glawson, who spent his past court appearances shoving or threatening the jury, finally got convicted in Suffolk Superior Court. After all the ruckus he made in the courtroom, it's easy to forget that the original charge was shooting a police officer in the hand in what a Suffolk SC press release describes as a "multi-jurisdictional crime spree." Glawson was ordered to serve 45 years after he serves 20 years for other offenses.

--Speaking of ugly courtroom behavior, Che Sosa, who stabbed his own lawyer in Norfolk Superior Court, was sentenced to 55 years in prison. WHDH reported that Sosa, upon seeing the lawyer he attacked, asked, "You still breathing?"

--On Wednesday, a former MBTA officer who moved to Florida shot his girlfriend and then killed himself by jumping from a high-rise. Helder "Sonny" Peixoto worked for the MBTA but had been convicted of vehicular homicide while on duty. He had also run for Cambridge City Council. Then things got bad, and apparently it just got worse in Florida.

--A house party with a twist is on today's blotter. It's standard for teenagers to throw big bashes when Mom and Dad are away, but, in a recent Cohasset case, a father named Anthony DiPaolo brought the booze to the party. This is the second time that the DiPaolo family has gotten in trouble for a serious all-ages kegger. DiPaolo is better known as the owner of the Work 'n' Gear stores, but now he might be better known for something else.

This time, police were especially annoyed by the behavior of DiPaolo's son. The Globe describes it thusly: "DiPaolo's 18-year-old son …ordered police off the property, swore at them before he dropped into a combat stance, and challenged police to 'bring it on,' the report said." Police then proceeded to "bring it on" by arresting him.

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