Albert Arroyo, 49, of Roslindale, the former firefighter who competed as a bodybuilder while claiming disability, was acquitted on two counts of mail fraud on Sunday in U.S. District Court. Arroyo was allegedly injured in 2008 after falling down a flight of stairs. He began exercising and bodybuilding after suffering a back injury in 2000. US Attorney Carmen Ortiz described the acquittal as a “disappointment.” [Herald]
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MBTA employees complain about new federal regulations that require the monitoring of urine tests to detect drug use, in effect saying, "I can't cheat if you're looking." [The Boston Channel]
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Catherine Greig was indicted today for “harboring and concealing” James “Whitey” Bulger from 1995 until June 22 of this year, when they were arrested in Santa Monica. The indictment details multiple aliases she used as she allegedly actively helped Bulger avoid capture. Greig could face five years in jail. [Boston Herald] Remember to follow Bostonist on Twitter and like us on Facebook.
Boston can boast about yet another important achievement: spending the most money per capita on firefighting and emergency medical services. We spend $452 per resident annually, far more than second-place San Francisco's $316 per resident. Unions are being blamed in part for the expense of firefighting in the city, as are outdated divisions that track unnecessary equipment. Whatever the cause, we can't argue that the high expenditures have prevented disaster: we've lost El Pelon, seen fire trucks crash (likely due to equipment failure), and paid disability out the nose (including to bodybuilders). The BFD even lost two of their own in a terrible fire made even more awful by autopsy results indicating drug use. Basically, the BFD is a Big Fucking Disaster—and more money isn't the thing that will fix it.
-- Keldrin Pena, a 20-year-old Jamaica Plain man, was shot to death Sunday morning while riding through Roxbury in the front passenger seat of a car. His companions, the driver and a second passenger, roll with the dreaded epithet "known to police," which might mean that the killing was gang-related. Boston police have suggested no motives, however, and no arrests have been made. [Globe; BPDNews]
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