March 7, 2008
Boston Blotter: All Boston Herald Edition
The Boston Herald is well-known for its crime coverage, which is so potent that today they bring you every single story on our Boston Blotter. This is, we imagine, an unprecedented triumph.
--Jessica Fargen reports on the strange saga of Che Sosa, who is currently serving 30-40 years and was in court today on a rape charge. He told those assembled that he assumes he'll be proven guilty and that when the judge is ready to sentence him she should “give me all you got." Last year Sosa infamously stabbed his lawyer with a prison-concocted knife. According to Fargen, he sang "Amazing Grace" upon entering the court today. [Boston Herald]
--A driving instructor from Ipswich has been accused of drinking while being paid to teach teenagers safe behavior behind the wheel. One student said, "Every time I was in the car with him, I smelled alcohol on his breath, but I thought it was the Robitussin." The man allegedly sipped from a cough syrup bottle during instruction, ostensibly to fight off germs from students. His blood alcohol content was later measured by police during one session at .23, and his certification has been revoked. [Boston Herald]
--The Herald also has an interesting first-person narrative from a Boston officer who apprehended a suspect who allegedly robbed two tourists from Ohio: "'It’s liquor,’ he said but Jimmy said ‘(Expletive) it’s not!’ It was a gun tucked under his waist. He tried to push us off and we pushed him back on the car. The Bowdoin Street Safe Team was also there in 30 seconds." [Boston Herald]
--Finally, O’Ryan Johnson reports on the success of the Boston Police Department's anonymous tip lines, which can even receive text messages, and which are being used at nearly five times the rate they once were. The piece suggests that this is "a surge that seems to spell the end of the deadly Stop-Snitching subculture that allowed thugs to bully Hub neighborhoods into silence." [Boston Herald]
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