Boston Blotter: 2nd Arrest in Harvard Shooting; Man Bites Cop

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-- Police have made a second arrest in connection with the May 18 shooting of Justin Cosby outside of a Harvard dorm. Blayn Jiggetts, a 19-year-old New Yorker, was arrested in Harlem yesterday just before midnight. Jiggetts joins Jabrai Jordan Copney, also of New York, in prison for the crime, which police say was a "botched 'drug rip'" that left Cosby dead from a gunshot to the gut and $1,000 cash and a bag of marijuana laying nearby. Police still seek a third suspect. [Globe]

-- A 25-year-old Malden man allegedly bit a Boston cop on the hand during an East Boston drug bust, according to police. The suspect was trying to swallow a baggie of cocaine. [BPDNews]

-- A Mass Pike toll collector stands accused of killing and cooking the corpse of his cocaine dealer after running up a debt of more than $70,000. The union representing toll takers has demanded that Paul Moccia, the 48-year-old who, along with 47-year-old high school chum Daniel Bradley, faces trial for the crime, continue to receive a $1,000 weekly pension, to the Herald's chagrin. [Herald; Herald]

-- An 18-year-old Cambridge man was shot in the leg early Thursday morning while walking through Sennott Park. He reportedly knew little about the attack that left him seeking medical help at Mass. General Hospital. [Cambridge Chronicle]

-- It was a family affair when a Dorchester couple was arrested in Somerville allegedly dealing heroin while their kids waited in the car. [Somerville Journal]

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