Boston Blotter: FBI Raid in Dorchester Nabs 8

-- The FBI raided Franklin Field projects in Dorchester, arresting 8 men whom they connected to a drug dealing operation. The raid is part of a concerted federal effort to curb gang activity across the state of Massachusetts. [Herald]

-- A fourth suspect has been arrested in Sunday's brutal abduction that left a man bleeding from his eyes and tied to a chair in a burning Allston apartment. The 20 year-old Cambridge man pleaded not guilty to charges that he abetted the kidnapping. [Cambridge Chronicle]

-- Boston police arrested two protesters who were playing dead inside chalk outlines of themselves outside of a research facility on Albany St., in the Boston Medical Center. [BPNews]

All charges alleged until proven under law.