Boston Blotter: Sex Offender Charged with Murder; Everybody's Robbing Something

-- Boston cops charged 50-year-old convicted sex offender Fitzhugh Newton with the February rape and murder of a Dorchester woman. Newton had previously been convicted of assault with intent to commit rape and gross lewdness in different incidents. [Universal Hub]

-- Boston cops are looking for the brazen man who allegedly knocked over at least 6 gas stations in the last week while wearing the same black hoodie. [BPDNews]

-- A man allegedly shoved the proceeds from the cash register of a Cambridge Holiday Inn Express into his own backpack. [Cambridge Chronicle]

-- A pair of men in a rented car robbed the East Cambridge Savings Bank at gunpoint last Friday. If one of the robbers is the Chelsea man who rented the car from the Malden Enterprise Rent-a-Car, we can probably assume that he isn't the brightest firework in the Independence Day display.

All charges alleged until proven under law.