Results tagged “bostonpolice”

-- 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]

Boston Police are asking the community to help identify suspects in the five street robberies reported in Jamaica Plain on Tuesday. BPDNews.com posted summaries of each incident and tips on protecting yourself against potential robbers. Anyone with information can contact police at (617) 343-5628. Anonymous tips can be reported to CrimeStoppers at 1(800)494-TIPS or text a ‘TIP’ to CRIME (27463). [BPDNews.com]

Boston Police responded to the Tedeschi’s on West Broadway in South Boston on Tuesday and found glass door smashed by a large rock. Police say surveillance tape shows the suspect tossing a rock through the door to enter the store. He then stole Newports and scratch tickets. The same suspect allegedly lifted lottery tickets and Newport cigarettes from a 7-11 on West Broadway in July and August. BPDNews.com describes the suspect as a white man, 30-40 years old with dark hair. He wore a Boston Red Sox hat and Championship shirt and black jeans and black sneakers. Cool surveillance pics, too. [BPDNews.com] All charges alleged until proven under law.

We like to make fun of the Globe a lot, but every once in a while they come up with an interesting story about an overlooked topic. Today the paper tells the story of Chris Rogers, a former Boston Police officer who was harassed by his fellow officers for first failing to protect and then mourning Officer Roy Sergei in a fatal 1987 shooting. Rogers' wife left him six years ago, and in 2006 he was dismissed from the force after being diagnosed as bipolar. Currently, Rogers lives in the Pine Street Inn and is trying to get back on his feet. It's a sad story that offers a poignant reminder of how we never know when we'll need the help of others to get by.

The Boston Herald reports that Boston cop Justin Barrett got himself a dose of administrative leave after admitting to writing an email in which he called Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. a "jungle monkey." Barrett, who had been assigned to District B-3 (Dorchester and Mattapan), presumably knows that black people are human beings, but he may have been concerned that Boston's nationwide reputation as America's most racist city had been jeopardized by the Cambridge police when they arrested Gates.

The Suffolk County DA has just reported that James A. Walker, the alleged Dorchester gang banger known as "Gunna," was arrested today on charges that he murdered a man during a gang beef in 2006. Walker, whom prosecutors suspect of leading the notorious Lucerne Street Doggz street gang, was doing time for a 2007 drug bust when he was arrested this afternoon. He had violated his probation in January when he was caught with a gun in his car.

The Boston police Twitter feed warns that a SWAT team has set up at 2 Dudley Terrace, off the 700 block of Dudley Street, in Dorchester, to manage a "barricaded suspect."

--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]

Boston police have released photos of a man who might be the culprit behind a series of arson attacks in Jamaica Plain, including the attack on January 6 that burned Maria's Hair Fashions to the ground.

It was bound to happen. A day after street artist Shepard Fairey protested the timing of his arrest, somebody at the Wooster Collective street art blog has run a lengthy narrative suggesting a Boston police conspiracy designed to bring down Our Popular Mayor.

The Globe reports that Boston police face historic layoffs as funds from the state dry up. The city has only laid off cops twice before in its history. Mayor Thomas Menino's office has said that no layoff plans have been finalized.

Today the Herald wrote about Taser use in Massachusetts, citing some scary statistics. According to the Herald, taser use in Massachusetts quadrupled from 2006 to 2007, when the weapons were used 200 times. Amnesty International reports that 320 people have died after being hit with Tasers since 2001, and also says the weapons are now being used to "get compliance" rather than avoid lethal force. Our Ist friends have covered traumatic Taser incidents in the past: Gothamist reported on a man who fell to his death after being Tasered (as well as the subsequent suicide of the cop who ordered the Taser use), LAist addressed the Tasering of a UCLA student who committed the vile crime of being in a library, Seattlest caught a cop accidentally using his gun instead of his Taser, and Chicaogist shared the CPD's use of force model after a man died following a Tasering. We hope the use of Tasers in Massachusetts and elsewhere can be reevaluated based on these disturbing findings, and that Taser training will be improved.

The City of Boston has entered a hiring freeze. Reacting to Governor Deval Patrick's announced $1 billion cut in state spending, Mayor Menino has freezed hiring and has urged a citywide spending audit. (WBZTV) Meanwhile, Boston police have thrown up a wall of platitudes against the dire budgetary news.

-- More details have emerged in the fatal shooting Saturday of a 22-year-old Roxbury man. Authorities revealed that the victim was Cheickoumar Kake, a Roxbury native who had just returned to town after living in Maryland. Kake was a resident of the Academy Homes apartment complex, where he was killed during a community cookout. Though police have been investigating a gang beef between groups based in Academy Homes and the nearby Bromley Heath housing complex, investigators have not called the killing gang-related. Kake's uncle denies that his nephew was involved in the gang. One Academy Homes teenager was quoted in the Globe saying, "There's definitely going to be a war here in the summer." [Globe]

--Have you heard the BPD is installing massive woofers to the front of patrol cars? You may hear and feel "The Rumbler" if you're pulled over. [Boston Globe]

Witnesses on the scene described the killing as a drive-by shooting.

-- The Friday afternoon stabbing in Jamaica Plain may have been caused by pornography. Police have arrested Claribel Peralta, 21 of Boston, on charges that she stabbed her 33 year old boyfriend after flying into a rage when she discovered him watching pornography. Peralta had initially told police that she had come out of the bathroom in the victim's Amory Street apartment to find him pre-stabbed. [BPDNews; Herald]

-- While many Bostonians remain only vaguely aware of the Bruins' playoff loss last night, at least three fans mustered enough anguish to make it to jail, police say. Last night, a celebrating Canadiens' fan found himself bleeding from the head outside the TDBanknorth Garden after allegedly being assaulted by a two-man goon squad. Police arrested the pair, one of whom was wearing a Jason Allison Bruins jersey. And, inside the Garden, a detail cop who was trying to break up a brawl between Canadiens and Bruins fans was himself allegedly assaulted. One man was arrested. [BPDNews]

--Another fireman behaving badly; after hitting a woman, he fought with the arresting officers. [Boston Herald]

-- The Bridgewater man being sought by police for the murder of his ex-wife was found dead last night, an apparent suicide. Andrew Boisvert was found hanging in an Iredell County, North Carolina rest stop. He was fleeing Friday's warrant for his arrest in the murder of Medford resident Margaret Ninos, who was found beaten to death in her home on Wednesday. A North Carolina rest stop worker discovered Boisvert's body hanging from a tree. [Globe; Herald]

--A security guard and two other individuals chased down a robber who had stolen from a 66-year-old woman yesterday as she exited a Dorchester convenience store. BPD officers responding to the crime were directed to the suspect by the pack of Good Samaritans. [BPD News]

After freezing our buns off outside Casa Lampoon, while 'Pooners were slinging T-shirts and crackers at the crowd, only to be told that Paris Hilton was late, we're glad that we weren't the only ones who missed out on seeing the Queen of Wine in a Can.* The BPD denied a group of rowdy fans the opportunity to see Ms. Hilton early this morning on Warrenton Street:

Update: Gintautas Dumcius at the Dorchester Reporter was also early to the Yakovleff story and covers the reaction in the Tuttle Street neighborhood where Yakovleff died.

A Woburn man was arrested and went to court today for allegedly raping an unconscious woman in a bathroom at Felt late Friday night. 21-year-old Nicholas Chiaraluce pled not guilty to a count of aggravated rape. The details of the case, provided by the DA's Office, are beyond disturbing:

-- A man was shot to death waiting for his food at a Jamaican restaurant in Dorchester last night. Police have not identified the 24 year-old victim, the eighth Boston homicide and the fourth in three nights. His death punctuates an spree of violence in Dorchester unprecedented in recent memory. [Boston Herald]

--The Boston Police Department and the DA's Office are investigating the death of an inmate at the Suffolk County House of Correction. 41-year-old Darryl Lee Leslie died on New Year's Eve while being moved to maximum security because he was, according to a jail spokesman, "planning a violent attack." An autopsy is being performed. [Boston Globe]