Boston Blotter: Sister Tries to Stop Snitchin', Fails Miserably

--The Suffolk County DA's office announced that LaDawn Hicks, the sister of murder defendant Jason Meeks, has been charged with witness intimidation. Boston NOW reports that Hicks and Meeks made a three-way phone call from jail "urging" a witness not to testify, and it blew right back at her.

Meeks allegedly shot Alvaro Sanders in Roxbury in 2001. To keep her brother out of jail, Hicks also went to the witness' house (we're not naming the witness because the case is still in trial) to tell him what to say. The Globe quotes Hicks as saying, "'They're not smart, they're not educated, they don't know. They let these whiteys tell them everything,' she said, adding that she told Remy to stand up to a judge and 'be arrogant to that man.'" Well, Hicks was certainly "arrogant," and look where it got her. Even if Meeks is innocent, his and his sister's behavior doesn't help his case.

--An Arlington man who abducted two women near Faneuil Hall and raped them back in 2005 has pled guilty for his crimes and was sentenced to 15 years. We're not judges, but that seems light.

--It got ugly last night in Boston. A teenager was shot in Dorchester, and a guy got stabbed in Brighton following a street fight. It all started when the guy was standing at the corner of Comm Ave and Harvard Street with a friend. A car made a right turn before them, and someone thought that the car got too close to the peds. Knives were drawn. Somehow, the stabbers and the car vanished before police could get them.

--A major murder trial is starting in Nantucket. Why is this one getting so much attention? Because it involves a New York bank exec, Thomas Toolan, who allegedly killed his ex-girlfriend, Elizabeth Lochtefeld, in 2004. It has been awfully difficult assembling a jury in Nantucket, where everyone and their mother knows about the case.

--In Hamilton, a tough 12-year-old defended his mother from an attack from her ex-husband on Wednesday night. The ex tried to strangle the woman, and the 12-year-old helped her escape.

--Remember the students who broke into the principal's office and hacked into their school's computer system? Well, some Duxbury students did them one better. They hacked into the computers and got them to play porn!

McGruff looks over his shoulder and marvels at our fair city.