Results tagged “lucernestreetdoggz”

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. more ›

--Don't mess with the elderly in this city. They are not easy targets. A guy found that out when he tried to steal an old woman's purse at the Downtown Crossing T stop. On Wednesday night, Christopher Linehan, 29, of Dorchester, tried to snatch the purse of the unidentified 79-year-old woman. Neither party would let go of the purse, so Linehan tried dragging the woman to one of the black turnstiles. Good Samaritans started blocking... more ›

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. more ›

--A Boston police officer got hit during a shoot-out with alleged gang members in Dorchester last night. Stephen Romano, who was wearing a bulletproof vest, was hit in the chest but will survive. The shooting started when police interfaced with Antonio Franklin and Durrell Curry. Franklin shot Romano, and then a state trooper on the scene returned fire and hit Franklin, leaving him in critical condition, but Curry escaped. The Herald had a disturbing detail.... more ›

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