More news has emerged about the large group of gang members who were rounded up yesterday following the shooting of a BPD officer. Shooter Antonio Franklin belonged to the Castlegate gang, not the Lucerne Street Doggz, but the mass arrest might send a message to gang members in general. The Lucerne Street Doggz were awfully busy. Their alleged crimes include 57 shootings, 6 murders, coke-dealing, and general havoc. One crime listed included robbing middle school......

In terms of the Boston Blotter, this looked to be a somewhat quiet weekend. The most likely crime would be public drunkenness during the big Pats-Chargers game. But another teen - a 13-year-old boy named Luis Gerena - was gunned down on Friday night. He got shot, managed to make it to the Jackson Square MBTA station, and collapsed. He died later. Commissioner Davis issued a statement including this line: "The prevalence of firearms......

It would be nice if the blotter for the first day of 2007 focused on the typical New Year's Eve drunk and disorderlies. Unfortunately, six people were shot in four separate locations around 5 this morning in Dorchester. A 14-year-old died in the shootings. That makes yet another preteen who has been cut down in a matter of weeks. The Boston Police Department believes that two of the episodes unfolded at "private house parties"......