-- Police have identified the victim whose body was discovered on fire near Hyannis. 16-year-old Jordan Mendes was a drug dealer, police say, and they have arrested two 13-year-old suspects in the slaying, one of whom was Mendes's half-brother. Prosecutors say that the 13-year-olds killed Mendes after robbing him of $10,000 to buy a BMW. Mendes was shot in the torso and stabbed 27 times. [Herald]
-- When a delivery driver got an order from the same Dorchester address where he'd been robbed in the past, he brought along a plainclothes detective who might have stopped a second robbery. [BPDNews]
-- Boston and MBTA police nabbed a couple of teen bandits who had been terrorizing the Orange Line with a series of armed robberies, police say. [BPDNews]
-- A SWAT team in Dorchester stopped a suicide. [Herald]
All charges alleged until proven under law.

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