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-- Boston Police arrested a man with a gun on Thursday after chasing him on foot. The suspect was driving "erratically" near Egelston Square and attempted to park in front of a hydrant. Police determined the owner of the car was unlicensed, prompting officers to try to stop the car. The operator of the car exited the car and fled. Officers pursued the suspect, observed he was armed. After refusing to drop the weapon, police took it away during a physical struggle. The suspect faces various assault and weapons charges. [BPDNews.com]

-- Public health officials released a report today calling heroin and OxyContin addiction an "epidemic" in Massachusetts. The report calls for a public health campaign on the scale of the fight against H1N1 to combat the problem. The report estimates that 3,265 Massachusetts residents died from opiate overdose between 2002 and 2007. [Globe]

-- Some Dorchester voters had more on their minds yesterday than the Boston mayoral contest. A 23-year-old man was shot and killed yesterday morning in front of the John Marshall Elementary School, which serves Dorchester as a polling place. Voting was briefly disrupted, and classes were dismissed early as a result of the violence. [Herald]

-- T police arrested two men on unrelated counts of indecent assault and battery yesterday. William Carlyle, a 52-year-old Boston man, was nabbed at Copley Station after allegedly grabbing a woman's buttocks on the Green Line platform at Park Station. And William James was picked up for allegedly grabbing a woman's buttocks on a Red Line platform at Quincy Center Station last June. [MBTA Spokesman Joe Pesaturo]

-- A 21-year-old woman was shot outside of her own Halloween party in Dorchester early Sunday, and was taken to Boston Medical Center, where she was listed in critical condition. No arrests have been made. [BPDNews, Globe]

-- A criminal assault and battery charge will be filed against an Arlington Catholic High School football player after he allegedly headbutted a player from Abington High School in a game in September. There is no arraignment date set yet. The victim's lawyer said the Arlington Catholic player "took his helmet off and headbutted him." The suspect's lawyer, Ronald A. Martignetti, said Arlington Catholic suspended his client for two games. [Herald]

-- A 26-year old female Harvard employee was attacked yesterday night in Harvard Square by a man who tried to strangle her with a rope. The quick-thinking victim was able to crouch, push her male assailant away, and escape with little harm having come to her. No arrests have been made. [Herald]

-- 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]

-- Boston's hospitals are dangerous places these days. A psychiatric patient at the Massachusetts General Hospital Bipolar Treatment Center was shot dead by an off-duty security guard this afternoon after the patient allegedly stabbed his doctor. The doctor, who was shuttled bleeding from her clinic and is listed in stable condition. [Herald]

-- A woman was sexually assaulted early Saturday morning as she crossed through the Back Bay Fens on Agassiz Street. The woman was reportedly attacked by three men, one of whom raped her in the park's bushes. [BPDNews]

-- A Level Three sex offender allegedly assaulted a woman in a Massachusetts General Hospital bathroom on Thursday. David C. Flavell was charged with assault with intent to rape and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon and held without bail until a psychiatric evaluation next Tuesday. Flavell's court-appointed attorney Neil Madden said Flavell takes Prozac and was drinking Captain Morgan rum Thursday. Madden said his client "doesn't remember entering Massachusetts General Hospital. He remembers being with a friend and he remembers ending up in jail.’’ The victim is a Mass. General employee. Suffolk Assistant District Attorney David Deakin said Flavell has prior sex crimes convictions. [Globe, Herald]

-- A Somerville man was stabbed repeatedly outside of the CVS on JFK Street in Harvard Square early Saturday morning before taking a cab to the emergency room. The man described three suspects to police, who have released little information about the incident. [Cambridge Chronicle]

-- After pleading guilty to charges of assault and battery, disorderly conduct and threats to commit a crime Thursday at Wareham District Court, Derek Lindsay, 36, of Taunton, has 72 criminal convictions on his record since 1990. Thursday's conviction stems from a June 4 incident, in which Lindsay spit at a woman in Middleboro. He faces a six-month sentence. Lindsay already faces charges in two other incidents. He's charged with assault and battery after an alleged incident at a Middleboro tattoo parlor. He's already in jail without bail on drug and weapons charges from another incident. He has scheduled court dates on October 27, November 3 and December 17. [WCVB, Bockton Enterprise]

-- 40-year-old Bernard Piscopo was sentenced to six years in jail today after being convicted in the brutal 2007 slaying of Adam Rich. Piscopo, who suffers from multiple sclerosis, swore that he did not kill Rich during a ballroom brawl in South Boston's Six House bar. The court decided differently. Rich died from seven stab wounds, including an 8-inch-deep stab through the heart. [Herald]

-- The killing of a 100-year old nursing home resident may have become even more shocking with the revelation that investigators may be considering Elizabeth Barrow's roommate as a possible suspect. Barrow's son said the two didn't get along well. Bristol County District Attorney Sam Sutter described her death as "asphixia by manual strangulation." [WCVB]

-- 25 year-old Joseph Cousin was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after being convicted of killing Trina Persad in 2002. At his sentencing hearing, Cousin maintained his innocence, claiming "I can look at Trina’s picture every single day and know that I am not the one who took her life." [Herald]

-- A 26-year old strip club dancer from Everett was found dead outside her apartment in what the Globe described as a "grisly" scene. Police believe she was killed between 1:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. after leaving work at Alex's in Stoughton. Middlesex District Attorney Gerald T. Leone Jr. didn't speculate on a motive, or how the victim died. [Globe]

-- Danielle Bremner, who writes graffiti as "UTAH," was sentenced to six months in prison by Boston Municipal Court after she pleaded guilty to tagging buildings in the Back Bay and trains in an MBTA yard in East Boston. Bremner, who lives in New York, had been a fugitive from prosecution for more than a year when she was arrested in Chicago in August 2008. She has also been convicted of vandalism charges in New York. [Herald]

-- 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]

-- Scituate Police seized 75 pot plants worth about $200,000 and arrested the alleged grower. Police found $15,000 worth of equipment used to grow the marijuana. The suspect was arraigned on Thursday in Hingham District Court on charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, third offense; cultivating marijuana; and trafficking in marijuana. []

-- Five robberies took place last nigh in Jamaica Plain near the Stony Brook T station. Two people were robbed by what they described as "two slim White Hispanic males in their late teens" in the early evening. Three people were robbed at gunpoint on Boylston Street within ten minutes of each other by a black female and males in their 20s. What, nobody in JP calls the cops? [Neighbors for Neighbors]

-- The Boston firefighter who was beaten to a pulp by Boston police cops in March, 2008, was acquitted today in charges that he assaulted his girlfriend. Both Wayne Abron, 42, and his then-girlfriend, social worker Edwinna Wynn, claimed that the assault charge was trumped up—a cover story to hide what Abron characterized as a case of police brutality. The cops responsible for his injuries are under investigation. [Herald]

It was a dismal weekend of violence in Boston that ended with two dead, including a pregnant teenager.

-- A drug dealer from Providence was arrested in Somerville last Thursday. The suspect had at least 53 grams of crack cocaine he tried to flush down the toilet. Cops also allegedly found additional drugs hidden in the suspect's car. Somerville Police tried to “ward off the demons of law enforcement” by using religious trinkets to protect his secret drug hiding place. He was charged with breaking and entering, trafficking in heroin, morphine or opium, trafficking in cocaine and drug violation near a school zone or park. [Somerville Journal]

-- Boston Police arrested an 18-year old East Boston man on Friday after he kicked and punched officers during a disturbance at his grandparents' house. The grandparents told police their grandson was destroying their house because they were making him go to work and he didn’t want to. He was locked in his room and was aggressive towards the officers once he opened his door. His fists were clinched and he said "I’m not going anywhere." He was charged with assault and battery on a police officer and resisting arrest. [BPDNews.com]

-- The beatdown of a hapless man who was standing outside of the Kells nightclub on Brighton Avenue turned into a 12-to-15 person melee that spilled into the Allston streets early Sunday morning. Boston cops learned that something was amiss when reports came of a man walking down Brighton Ave spilling blood from his chest. He was a stab victim. When police arrived on the scene, the fight was still happening, and police eventually broke it up, arresting two. When one cop was disarming one of the suspects, the crowd descended upon him, sending him to the hospital along with many of the injured fighters. [Allston-Brighton TAB]

-- Somerville soccer fields must be in short supply these days. A 33-year-old man was arrested after allegedly practicing his soccer kick on the back of a teenage boy who refused to give up the soccer field at the Capuano School on Glen Street. [Somerville Journal]

-- Three men were arrested last night on charges of armed home invasion after they allegedly forced their way into a woman's home on Carson Street using what turned out to be a fake gun. The suspects were also carrying everything you'd need to sell pot, according to police. [BPDNews]

-- A 25-year-old Dorchester man is in critical condition after he was stabbed multiple times early Saturday morning. Boston police arrested one man in connection with the attack. [BPDNews]

The Boston Police Department's School Police Unit confiscated a pellet gun from a 17-year old student at Seaport Campus-for the School for Children on Thursday. The student was questioned by school personnel about the gun, which he then displayed under his shirt and in his waistband. After being disarmed, he threatened staff and students and said “I’ll be back and shoot the school up.” The student was charged with possession of a firearm on school property, threats to commit a crime (murder) and disturbing a school assembly. [BPDNews.com]