Boston Blotter: Touch Not the Players!

Update: Our Ist-a-Verse family called the individual in this story a "Boston Idiot." We would like to clarify; hence, the photo.

Yet another hoser ran across the Fenway Park field yesterday during the Red Sox-Yankees game. In the seventh inning, the guy 20-year-old Charles Gendron, of Maine, ran across the field and grabbed the cap off the head of Robinson Cano, the Yankees' second baseman.

NESN cut away from the action, but Bostonist saw the guy running in the corner of the screen, along with Johnny Damon running toward the errant fan. The guy also tried to high-five Eric Hinske, who had just made it to the base, but Hinske declined.

Gendron was arrested, and Cano's cap was swiftly returned. Cano told the New York Post, "I was scared a little. I didn't know what it was." The Red Sox's Jason Varitek agreed, "That was a little freaky." All we can say is at least he was from Maine and not Boston.

--Dumbest response ever to the presence of a police officer at a loud, boozy party: "Who let you in?"

--Police probably heard that line multiple times over the weekend, as they cracked down on college parties. Northeastern reports that "at least nine" of its students were arrested over the weekend.

--Now here's an odd entry on the blotter: Police were taking care of someone "who appeared to be highly intoxicated and in need of medical attention" in Roxbury. As they were doing that, another person stopped by to say they saw a tagger going to town on a house. Police found and arrested Aidan Lindh for tagging (pink was his color of choice), but what happened to the person who needed medical attention?

--In other weekend cases, Otelino Goncalves of Lynn was arrested for shooting someone early Sunday morning in Dorchester, and early this morning in Roxbury police arrested Jose Alberto Gomes-Rivera of Dorchester for threatening people with a pellet gun.

--A 90-year-old Norton man with some major hoarding issues had to be rescued from his home when a pile of junk toppled and overwhelmed him. The family of Michael Halko became concerned when he went missing for a few days, and they discovered him under the junk, with only his head sticking out from all of it.

All charges alleged until proven under law. There used to be a photo of Robinson Cano here, but it has been replaced with an AP photo that was originally modified and posted by Dave Hogarty at Gothamist and then further modified by Caroline Roberts.