Boston Blotter: Dorchester Teen Charged with Shooting Woman in Face

-- A 15-year-old Dorchester boy pleaded not guilty today to charges that he shot a woman in the face. The boy and a 17-year-old accomplice allegedly attacked a group of three women, and a 5-year-old girl, who were walking through Franklin Field, beating one woman in the face and beating another woman to the ground before fleeing and returning with a gun, which the 15-year-old allegedly used to spray the women with bullets, striking one in the face. [Herald]

-- Scott Gagnon, a 51-year-old convicted sex offender from Tewksbury, was arrested twice last week in connection with alleged sex related crimes. He was picked up last Thursday in Haverhill during a prostitution sting and arrested again four days later on charges of assaulting an Ipswich woman with the intent to rape her. [Herald]

-- A bomb threat, but, apparently, no bomb, was found on an American Airlines plane at Logan. [Herald]

All charges alleged until proven under law.