Boston Blotter: Beatdown and Robbery in JP, 911 Fraudster Attacks Somerville Police

-- Boston police report arresting a 21-year-old Roxbury man last night after he allegedly beat and tried to rob a patron of the thoughfuly named Boston Chinese Restaurant on Washington Street. Two other suspects remain at large. [BPDNews]

-- Somerville cops responded to a man who had apparently been placing obscene phone calls to the 911 emergency line earlier this week. When officers arrived at the man's house, he was drunk and he proceeded to attack the police, according to authorities. [Somerville Journal]

-- A Cambridge woman complained that a Medford psychic scammed her of $6,000 and turned out not actually to be psychic. The princely sum was paid in three installments. [Somerville Journal]

-- Cambridge cops caught a man in alleged possession of a whopping 230 OxyContin pills, or enough to keep Rush Limbaugh high for an hour or two. [Cambridge Chronicle]

All charges alleged until proven under law.