Results tagged “bostonblotter”

--Police officers, like everyone else, sometimes behave badly. Eight officers were suspended after a three-year investigation into steroid use by the BPD, FBI and the U.S Attorney. Four other cops were suspended for visiting the "Boom Boom Room", a Hyde Park brothel. The steroid-related suspensions range from 5-80 days. The Herald said Commissioner Ed Davis confirmed a grand jury is investigating the "Boom Boom Room". Extensive details on both matters are available at BPDNews.com. [Boston Herald]

-- Boston police captured a man allegedly breaking into a second floor Jamaica Plain apartment while his pants were waiting for him in the backyard. [BPDNews]

-- Boston cops charged 50-year-old convicted sex offender Fitzhugh Newton with the February rape and murder of a Dorchester woman. Newton had previously been convicted of assault with intent to commit rape and gross lewdness in different incidents. [Universal Hub]

-- Undercover Boston cops busted a Newton man who allegedly tried to sell them $200,000 worth of black tar heroin in the South End on Friday. The man, 34-year-old Amando Avila, faces multiple drugs charges. [BPDNews]

--Three teens, at least two of whom were friends, went to Callahan State Park in Framingham on Saturday to smoke marijuana and only two lived to tell the tale. The trio arrived in a Volvo, two fought over some allegedly stolen pot, guns were drawn and witneses heard three shots and a man yelling. According to police reports, the shooter said he would kill the victim and anyone who snitched on him, and "did not care if he went to jail for life." Nice. His attorney asked for cash bail - really - which the judge obviously denied. [MetroWest Daily News]

-- Nathaniel Turner, the 7-year-old boy who was hospitalized after his father allegedly beat him within inches of his life on Father's Day, was taken off life support. His father, 36-year-old Leslie Schuler, now faces murder charges. Authorities are trying to determine why Turner was in Worcester in the first place. He had previously lived with his maternal grandmother in Alabama until recently. His grandmother evidently believed that his father had been given visitation or custody, a claim that Massachusetts court officials deny. The case has stirred some conservative Democratic legislators to openly discuss reinstating the death penalty, which the Herald gleefullly reports. Classy. [Globe, Herald]

-- The 22-year-old victim of Sunday's drive-by shooting in North Cambridge faces charges that he was carrying a gun when he was shot. No suspects have been captured in connection with the shooting. [Cambridge Chronicle]

-- Some Massholes can't keep their rage in their cars. A 44-year-old Boston man was arrested at the Kendall Square Cinema Sunday after he allegedly assaulted a 31-year-old woman who wouldn't shut up during the movie. [Cambridge Chronicle]

-- A 32-year-old New Bedford man was shot and killed during a robbery that went awry Saturday night. The alleged killer was captured by surveillance cameras, but police have made no arrests. [Herald]

--O'Ryan Johnson, a Boston Herald crime reporter, faces up to 10 years in prison for allegedly kicking a man in the chest. Johnson asked for help at a laundromat in Groveland and the 74-year old man who responded got yelled at then kicked. Johnson was reportedly with a young girl. [Lawrence Eagle Tribune]

-- A man was shot in the face last night on Groom Street in Dorchester, capping off a bloody couple of days around the Hub. He remains in critical condition, and no arrests have been made. [Herald]

-- A 33-year-old Cambridge man was shot dead early this morning in the driveway of the Fresh Pond Apartments in North Cambridge. Jason Ellcock was shot multiple times, and police are seeking six suspects, black males who were seen fleeing the crime scene in hooded sweatshirts. [Cambridge Chronicle]

--The 89-yar old woman who hit a 4-year old and killed her in Stoughton on Saturday charged with motor vehicle homicide and had her license revoked by the Registry. [Globe]

--"Clark Rockefeller" was sentenced to 4-5 years in prison just two hours after his conviction on kidnapping and assault charges. Judge Frank Gaziano's sentence matched what prosecutors recommended. [Globe]

-- Police have made a second arrest in connection with the May 18 shooting of Justin Cosby outside of a Harvard dorm. Blayn Jiggetts, a 19-year-old New Yorker, was arrested in Harlem yesterday just before midnight. Jiggetts joins Jabrai Jordan Copney, also of New York, in prison for the crime, which police say was a "botched 'drug rip'" that left Cosby dead from a gunshot to the gut and $1,000 cash and a bag of marijuana laying nearby. Police still seek a third suspect. [Globe]

-- John Mentor, a 23-year-old Hyde Park man, was indicted this morning in the attempted murder of three Boston cops. Mentor allegedly fired a gun at the officers during an attempted drug arrest on April 13. District Attorney Daniel Conley said, "The evidence suggests a cold-blooded decision to shoot and kill Boston Police. But for the defendant’s bad aim and the officers’ immediate response, this could have been a multiple homicide." [Suffolk County District Attorney's Office]

--A 24-year old Framingham man was arrested for allegedly having 31 bags of marijuana in his car after a failed attempt at a street race. Police observed two cars "revving their engines and spinning their tires" at a Speen Street intersection in Natick. One car failed to start the race. The other car drove away. The driver charged with possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, racing a vehicle and driving with a suspended license. [MetroWest Daily News]

-- Raphael Lara, who allegedly stabbed a man to death in May, was arrested in the Bronx yesterday by the Boston Police Fugitive Unit. [BPDNews]

-- A carrying a baby was robbed by knifepoint near the Southwest Corridor Park in Jamaica Plain. The park, which is under State Police jurisdiction, has been the site of several robberies, assaults, and arrests in recent months. [JPGazette]

-- Hired car driver Darryl Hopkins gave testimony in the trial of the Alleged Criminal Formerly Known as Clark Rockefeller, and divulged weird details that could significantly impact the evil-mastermind-or-douche debate. According to Hopkins, Rockefeller went cloak and dagger after hiring the cab driver, eliciting suggestions for a suitable getaway street, practicing jumping into a moving SUV, and paying for a shady and expensive round trip to New York City, all while hiding his alleged intentions of kidnapping his daughter. [Globe]

--Nantucket antique dealer David Place was charged with the alleged illegal importing and trafficking of sperm whale teeth on Friday. Place was indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston on multiple counts of conspiracy and violating a federal law that prohibits trading in illegally captured wildlife.[Boston.com]

-- A man was stabbed this afternoon at St. Francis House homeless shelter in downtown Boston. The victim suffered multiple wounds, and police were able to subdue and arrest a knife-wielding suspect. [Globe]

-- A man was stabbed in front of a house on Howland Street in Dorchester this morning shortly before 10 a.m. Toddlers in the building may have seen the violence. [Herald]

-- Deanna Watkins, a 29-year-old mother, was shot to death Thursday night in front of her children at their home in Mattapan. Watkins had a troubled history, having drifted in and out of homeless shelters, and police believe that she was targeted by the masked gunman who killed her. [Herald; BPDNews]

--Police in Cambridge continue to unravel Monday's shooting of a 21-year old man at Harvard University's Kirkland House residence hall. Middlesex District Attorney Gerard T. Leone Jr said the killing occured after an alleged drug deal gone bad. Jabrai Jordan Copney, 20, turned himself in and will be arraigned today in Cambridge District Court. [Boston Herald, Boston Globe]

-- Authorities say that a "college aged" man was shot in the gut outside Harvard's Kirkland House dorm around five o'clock this afternoon. Harvard administrators quickly claimed that no Kirkland House resident was involved in the shooting, but they have yet to rule out whether the victim or the shooter were Harvard students. The victim is in stable condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and no arrests have been announced. Critics of Harvard's proposed reduction in late night shuttle service were quick to link the incident to their complaints, but, presumably, a late night shuttle can do little to keep you from being shot in the gut in broad daylight. [Harvard Crimson, Cambridge Chronicle, IvyGate]

--For some reason, 32-year-old Keni Garcia of Haverhill allegedly wanted 85,000 bullets. The ATF, ICE and state and local authorities seem to think this was a bad idea. Who knew? Essex County prosecutors are charging Garcia, who was scheduled to become an American citizen today, with illegal possession of ammunition, three counts of possession of a high-capacity firearm, and illegal storage of a firearm. Investigators found 10,000 rounds in his car, 20,000 rounds at his house. He allegedly tried to buy 55,000 more rounds in New Hampshire.[Boston Globe, Boston Herald]

-- Cambridge police are alarmed by a recent outbreak of violent crime. In the past week, a 16-year-old boy was stabbed in the face and chest on Churchill Avenue, and a 22-year-old man was shot in the face at Jackson Circle. Two suspects were nabbed in the stabbing, but the shooting remains unsolved. [Cambridge Chronicle]

-- 17-year-old Kiara Santiago of Roxbury pleaded not guilty yesterday to charges that she and accomplices invaded the home a 60-year-old Quincy man, robbed him, stripped him naked, and left him bound and gagged. The victim, Robert Noons, was a friend of Santiago's family, police say, and was relieved of $18,000, cash. The police report quotes Santiago as admitting that she and her four alleged accomplices planned to "rob Noons of all his drugs and his money," an interesting twist that might explain why the man had $18,000 in cash, but police have made no allegations that Noons possessed drugs. [Herald]

-- An armed robbery last night in Mattapan turned into a wild chase, complete with flying slugs, courtesy of a pair of plainsclothes policemen who were "fearing for their safety." Nobody was injured during the shooting, and cops eventually caught up with two of the three suspects, who now face multiple charges. [Herald]