-- Benjamin L. Makinen stabbed a stranger to death yesterday in Worcester, according to police. The 23-year-old Worcester man, whom his attorneys claim suffers from mental illness, walked into a triple decker, knocked on a second floor door and allegedly stabbed Shelleigh Wilcox to death before calling 911 to turn himself in. [Worcester Telegram Gazette] -- The Herald is leading the charge to capture Massachusetts's most wanted sex offenders. [Herald] -- Woburn, already the by-word......

-- Somerville cops bagged an alleged car burglar Monday only to discover that he was armed with a sword, according to reports. No word on whether he was being pursued by an oversized Russian. [Somerville Journal] -- A tenacious Northeastern student tracked down his stolen bike three weeks after the theft and recovered it with the help of Boston police, according to authorities. The alleged thief, a 23-year-old from Jamaica Plain had repainted the bike,......

-- Two men were found shot last night in Dorchester, one fatally. The dead man was found slumped over a steering wheel; the other victim was found outside the car, with a gunshot wound to the head that sent him to Boston Medical Center, where he remains in critical condition. Both victims were in their 40s. [BPDNews, Globe] -- In an unrelated incident, police found two men, also in their 40s, suffering from multiple gunshot......

-- The Alleged Criminal Formerly Known as Clark Rockefeller was denied bail today in Suffolk Superior Court. The German national had previously been offered a $50 million cash bond. [Herald] -- Somerville police nabbed two suspects, one a minor, yesterday for last week's daylight shooting at Foss Park. [Somerville Journal] -- An argument with tenants sent an Allston maintenance man into a rage yesterday afternoon, according to police. The 31-year-old man was arrested for breaking......

-- Graffiti artist Danielle Bremner, allegedly known by the nom de tag "Idaho" was arrested on outstanding charges that she vandalized property in the Back Bay. Bremner, whose rap sheet is international, faces 33 counts of vandalism. Her bail was set at $10,000. [Herald] -- Michael Joseph Brown, a 34-year-old from Limerick, Ireland, faces charges of open and gross lewdness after allegedly revealing his wee Blarney Stone to passersby at the Symphony MBTA station. When......

-- Christian Morgenson, a 61-year-old man, shot and killed his wife Sunday night before calling the police and killing himself, according to authorities. In a chilling twist, Morgenson posted a notice of the couple's deaths on his website prior to carrying out the apparent murder-suicide. [Globe] -- A man was arrested outside of the Jackson Square T station in Jamaica Plain Sunday night after he allegedly pulled a knife on a passerby and tried to......

-- A 23-year-old man was shot in broad daylight yesterday on Mystic Ave. in Somerville. He suffered non-life-threatening injuries, and no arrests have been made. [Somerville Journal] -- John Hinds, a 66-year-old Cambridge man who was convicted in 2000 of killing two relatives, lost again at trial. His previous conviction had been overturned by the Supreme Judicial Court. [Globe] -- A man was held up delivering Chinese food last night in Jamaica Plain. The assailant's......

-- A 25-year-old man man was shot dead yesterday afternoon on King St. in Dorchester, the victim of multiple gunshot wounds, according to Boston police. The victim has not been identified and no arrests have been made. [BPDNews] -- Whitey Bulger's hit man says he would have popped Whitey, had he known that the mob boss was also an FBI informant. John Martorano, who has been convicted of 20 gangland killings, gave candid testimony yesterday......

-- Early this morning, a woman was sexually assaulted in Egleston Square, Jamaica Plain by a man she said was a police officer, who might have been the same man police later nabbed in Roxbury, dressed like police and attempting to assault a second victim. [BPDNews] -- A Boston firefighter was arrested last night after allegedly assaulting a 62-year-old man inside Hyde Park's Polish American Club. The victim suffered a heart attack after the alleged......

-- A 17-year-old boy was shot dead last night on Parker St. in Jamaica Plain. The shooting happened around 9:13 p.m. and was detected by police in the area, who spotted a man fleeing the scene. Minutes later, on Notre Dame St. in Roxbury, police arrested a 19-year-old Dorchester man, whom they suspect as being the fugitive. The man was charged on marijuana possession and guns charges but does not yet face charges in connection......

-- A road rage altercation ended in bloodshed in a Union Square parking lot when a 35-year-old Jamaica Plain man was stabbed by an unknown assailant who escaped the scene. The victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries. [Somerville Journal] -- A 28-year-old woman was assaulted on Sacramento Street near Porter Square as she jogged down the stairs of a pedestrian underpass. [Somerville Journal] -- Boston police nabbed a pair of male alleged common nightwalkers during a vice......

-- A 35-year-old man was shot this morning near Dorchester High, putting the school into lock down. The man's wounds were non-life-threatening, and no arrests have been made. [Herald] -- The bandits who stole the century old metal trim from the Longfellow Bridge have been caught, police say. The metal, 2,300 feet of it, had been removed from the bridge during renovations and stored in a Stoneham warehouse, where it was stolen. Authorities discovered the......

-- This morning, a 17-year-old was shot outside of the Ashmont MBTA station in Dorchester, which capped a series of three shootings in which five were injured. Police say that this shooting, and the others, was not random. [BPDNews] -- The second shooting happened last night in Mattapan when a 19-year-old was shot in the chest while riding his bike. Relatives say that the victim, identified as Chris Pounds, had been on a mission to......

-- Charles Cherry, the 66-year-old Roxbury man who was arrested in connection with Friday's murder of a 56-year-old neighbor is a disabled man who suffers from a neurological disorder that keeps him from walking unaided. Police, who originally believed that he had stabbed Elvia McField to death, now say that he shot her with a high-powered rifle after a dispute in his apartment over money. Cherry pleaded not guilty to the charge. [Herald] -- The......

-- Elvia McField, 56, was found stabbed to death in her home on Amory St., near the boundary between Roxbury and Jamaica Plain. Police arrested 66-year-old Charles Cherry and charged him with the murder. [WCVB; BPDNews] -- A 25-year-old woman was raped at gunpoint at the Back Bay Orange Line station yesterday evening, and police have arrested a 48-year-old parolee for committing the crime. The woman was approached by her assailant while on the subway......

-- Boston police have DNA evidence linking three sexual assaults that have taken place in Charlestown since August 2007. In each case, the victim had been kidnapped after accepting a ride from the suspect, who drove her to Charlestown and assaulted her, according to police. [BPDNews] -- Manuel Spencer of Cambridge pleaded guilty in August of manslaughter in connection with the 2004 killing of a 25-year-old Lynn man in the parking lot of the former......

-- A high-caliber shooting near Donnelly field left a pair of Cambridge houses riddled by bullets. A pedestrian, who remains at large, fired a .45 caliber pistol at a moving car, according to police. [Cambridge Chronicle] -- A man suspected of shooting a teen in the knee in Union Square last Wednesday was collared by Somerville cops on Friday. The 21-year-old, whom police accuse of shooting the teen after a confrontation at a party, was......

-- Early Sunday morning, police arrested a man in connection with a quadruple stabbing in the North End. The four teenage victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries. [BPDNews] -- A day earlier, on Saturday morning, an unrelated quadruple stabbing sent a quartet of East Boston teens to the hospital, two with life-threatening injuries. Police say that the victims were sitting on a stoop at 85 Trenton St. when they got into a shouting match with a group......

-- The second Dorchester murder in 48 hours found a man stabbed to death yesterday afternoon in front of a home on Geneva Ave. [BPDNews] -- A man was shot last night on Algonquin St. in Dorchester. He remains in critical condition at Boston Medical Center. [BPDNews] -- A man on Gayhead St. in Jamaica Plain was pummeled with a tire iron by thugs who had been breaking into his car, according to police. [BPDNews]......

-- The gruesome June kidnapping that left an Allston man tied to a chair in his burning apartment and bleeding from his eyes was an attempt to steal pounds of pot from a small-time dealer, according to prosecutors. [Universal Hub] -- The marijuana that was found in the car of a Newton fire chief belonged to his grandson. [WBZTV] -- Harvard police might be racists. [WBZTV] -- A man was stabbed in the neck today......

-- A car chase and gun battle ended yesterday evening in Cambridge when a man toting a .45-caliber handgun slipped out of his bullet-perforated car and into the waiting arms of police. The man was allegedly involved in a series of shootings that twisted through the streets of East Cambridge, stretching down Pine St. and up Main St. to Bishop Allen Dr. Three different crime scenes were established, and authorities believe that somebody fired upon......

-- A man suspected of being homeless was found stabbed to death in a small Dorchester park this morning. [Globe] -- After Friday's shooting on the Boston waterfront was linked to a reggae and hip-hop cruise, police feared escalated violence at this weekend's Caribbean Festival, which has seen bloodshed in the past. So, police rounded up the usual suspects before the event even started. 56 suspected gang members and alleged criminals were arrested in a......

-- Larelle Pratt, 19 of Boston, whom police describe as "an impact player" in the local gang scene, was arrested in the Sunday night shooting of two boys in Roxbury. Pratt shot the boys, who were sitting on the back porch of a Roxbury triple decker, and calmly left the crime scene, police say. Prosecutor accounts have revealed that the 17-year-old victim of the gunfire, Eric Parson, saved the life of his 4-year-old cousin, Ferris......

-- Two, possibly three people were shot last night on Hendry St. in Dorchester. All three victims were hospitalized, and few details were made available by police. [Globe] -- A 17-year-old Cambridge boy was shot yesterday afternoon in a daytime drive-by shooting. The boy had been riding his bike near Donnelly Field in East Cambridge when he was shot by two men in a dark colored car, police say. [Cambridge Chronicle] -- The T is......

-- An independent panel released a report today that accuses the Boston Police Department of shoddy police work, when it comes to policing itself. The panel ruled that five police misconduct cases out of 19 that it reviewed had been mishandled. Witnesses had been intimidated or ignored and leaps of logic had been used to clear cops in those cases, which the panel recommends be reexamined. The panel was formed after a 2004 incident in......

-- A fisticuffs between two Roxbury women turned bloody early Sunday morning after a broken bottle got involved, authorities said. Police arrested one. The stabbing victim suffered non-life-threatening injuries. [BPDNews] -- Thursday night, Boston police arrested two men after a Roxbury bouncer was found beaten and stabbed. The incident, which happened on Norvia's bar on Washington St., began when the bouncer tried to escort three brawling patrons out of the establishment. The victim suffered non-life-threatening......

-- A 50-year-old Melrose man faces charges that he stuffed his pants with a bunch of road flares, told a Revere bank teller that he had a bomb, and left a 72 word note instructing her to bring a bag of money into the bank's parking lot. The note, which was TL;DR, only prompted the teller to call the cops, who scooped up Bryan Sullivan and charged him with armed assault with intent to rob,......

-- A Barnstable resident found a bag in his front yard containing a loaded .22-caliber pistol, two ammunition magazines, and a t-shirts. No word yet on whether the package was a mislaid NRA schwag bag. [Globe] -- Wakefield cops say that they busted Miguel Fernandez, 41 of Mexico, with 232 grams of cocaine in his minivan. The cocaine was divided into plastic bags and had a street value between $18,000 and $20,000, authorities say. The......

-- Boston police have charged three in the May killing of a South Boston man. Edward Holloman, 19, of Lynn, and Edward Mendez, 34, of Jamaica Plain were both charged with murder. Darren Hemingway, 19, of Brighton, was charged as an accessory after the fact. The men are accused of killing 27-year-old Curtis Ashford after getting into a fight on 8th Street last May. [BPDNews] -- A melee spilled out of the Middle East rock......

-- A shooting in Roxbury early Saturday morning left police looking for a smashed up Ford Taurus. A man in his late 30s was found shot near Franklin Park at 1:20 a.m. Saturday, and was transported to Boston Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. Police seek the Taurus, registration 5021RK, in connection with the crime. [BPDNews] -- Saturday night, a Lowell prostitute bound a drunken john using a belt before escaping with $62,000 in cash, authorities......