Boston Blotter: MIT Cop Bagged with Bags of Pills

-- Boston and state police arrested Joseph D'Amelio, a uniformed MIT police officer, on charges that he and an accomplice were trafficking pain pills. Authorities say that D'Amelio was captured with 340 pills of OxyContin and even more Roxycodone. [Suffolk County D.A.]

-- A man in Weston faces charges that he stabbed his grandmother to death, slitting her throat for good measure. James M. Clark, who was under a restraining order taken out by his mother after a series of violent episodes, allegedly killed his 80-year-old grandmother in her home in an affluent subdivision of Weston. It was the first killing in 10 years for Weston and the first in 33 years for the neighborhood. [Globe]

-- Cops in Roxbury arrested an alleged heroin dealer in his home. [BPDNews]

-- 13 alleged douchebags were arrested during Sunday's St. Patrick's Day Parade. [BPDNews]

-- Two Brighton men were arrested allegedly joyriding in a car they claimed to have borrowed. [BPDNews]

-- A man in Charlestown fought off a mugger, and received a set of non-life-threatening stab wounds for his trouble. [BPDNews]

All charges alleged until proven under law.