This is weird, even for the T. A man dressed as a clown acted and yelled in an aggressive manner towards a woman leaving the green line at Riverside Station in Newton on Monday. The victim told police she was walking towards Hancock Street near 275 Grove Street when the suspect approached her on a "small bicycle." He reportedly asked her “Where’s Waltham?,” got off the bike and came towards her in "an aggressive manner." He allegedly was weaing clown makeup, a rainbow wig, a plaid shirt, and jeans. The woman allegedly saw the same clown talking to some girls on the train earlier on Monday. [Newton Patch], [WCVB]
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Tyler A. Bryan, a 25-year old taxi driver from East Somerville, was arrested today for driving drunk and crashing into a snowbank on Soldiers Field Road. He pleaded not guilty in Brighton Municipal Court for operating under the influence and refusing to identify himself to police. Bryan refused a breathalyzer test and had his license suspended for 180 days by the RMV.
Someone has really had it with the snow. An Abington man who was making bombs he intended to use to blow up snow banks has been charged with threatening to commit a crime and possession of incendiary devices. Police and fire officials recovered ammunition and "powders" from his last known address. Abington Police Chief David Majenski said police found "military-grade ammunition and other stuff." The suspect gave police a pistol and a shotgun and had his license to carry revoked. He'll be arraigned on February 22. All charges alleged until proven under law. [Globe] [Patriot Ledger]
An attempted robbery at the Hillsborough Market in Manchester, New Hampshire on Saturday was foiled by a squash-wielding delivery man. A would-be robber left the store clerk a "threatening note," and reportedly said "Give me your money, or you're going to die." A neighbor intervened, followed by the delivery man with the squash. The suspect was charged with robbery. All charges alleged until proven under law. [WMUR]
A Brookline man was arrested for unarmed robbery on Friday after offering a woman an apple and breaking her umbrella when she refused. The incident took place on September 27 on Fairbanks Street. The suspect offered the apple and the victim refused. The victim left ad crossed the street only to have the suspect follow her. She was screaming as she ran and the suspect managed to grab her umbrella and break it in half. She kept running and the suspect stopped chasing her. She ran to her boyfriend’s home on Washington Street and he went to retrieve her phone. He allegedly saw the suspect spraying an apartment with an aerosol spray can. The victim identified the suspect to police on Friday. [Wicked Local Brookline]
Framingham Police detective Scott Brown, 38, was put on paid administrative leave after being indicted for threatening a citizen with a firearm. On April 29, Brown allegedly urinated on private property while on duty in plainclothes and in an unmarked car. One of the property owner's reportedy questioned the officer, and his response was "stop looking." Her husband questioned Brown and that's when the alleged threat happened. Brown faces charges of assault with a dangerous weapon and making threats. His attorney denies the charges. All charges alleged until proven under law. [WCVB], [Globe]
Bankrobbers target banks because that's where the money is. That's the saying, anyway.
Consider this a lesson: It's a mattress, not a bank.
Crimes that are truly odd can sound crazy even with a minimum of snark...
A brawl in Providence, R.I. involving a pregnant woman, and a pregnant woman and her two teenage daughters resulted in three stabbing victims and four arrests. Yes. A pregnant woman from Boston stabbed another pregnant woman whose daughters were riding shotgun. The suspect, reportedly 35, eight months pregnant, a mother of three and employed at a Boston hospital, was arraigned Thursday on three counts of assault and released on $1,500 cash bail. The court ordered her to not contact the victims' family. Three other arrests were made. [WCVB, Providence Journal]
Despite its disturbingly Christian iconography, we like PAX East, the massive video game that we visited twice. But in every bushel of apples, you'll find a few bad ones, and that goes double when that bushel is made up of nerds instead of apples. Being a good nerd means being friendly and contented with your socially outcast lot. Being a bad nerd means stealing video game code.
Apparently, Pat the Patriot stays in New England for road games, and that is allegedly not a good thing. Robert Sormanti, the Rhode Island man who plays the giant-headed Revolutionary War Zombie on the field, was picked up last week for replying to a fake prostitution ad that Rhode Island police had placed on Craigslist, according to authorities.
It's rare that we are sufficiently lazy impressed to share the contents of our inbox, but the e-mail we just got from the Suffolk County D.A.'s Office titled "COOKIE CRUMBLES FOR DORCHESTER DRUG DEALER" deserves your attention. Press Secretary Jake Wark writes:
A Somerville man was arrested last week after allegedly breaking into a woman's apartment and threatening her with a BB gun while looking for a former tenant, whom he called Paulie. [Somerville Journal]
From the Oddblotter goldmine that is Somerville comes this teachable moment. After Somerville police arrested a man for allegedly refusing to leave his girlfriend's apartment—and smashing in a window—the suspect allegedly depantsed himself, and declared, "I’m naked. You can’t take me like this."
Last Friday, State police arrested a 21-year-old World of Warcraft gamer who had driven to Madison, Wisc. to kill a 17-year-old rival, according to reports. Staties arrested Gloucester gamer Trevor L. Lucas on the Mass. Turnpike just outside of Boston on a warrant out of Wisconsin. They reported that Lucas was packing a real arsenal: "four semi-automatic hand guns - two of which were loaded - along with four loaded, large-capacity magazines, two stun guns, three pepper spray containers, two assault knives, two expandable police batons and seven sets of handcuffs."
The Cambridge Chronicle reports that Cambridge police are looking for a man with an alleged taste for feet. The fetishist reportedly accosted a woman outside of Whole Foods who was sporting a delicious pair of pumps before taking matters into his own hands—or at least his own tongue—and getting an unconsented to taste of instep. The man remains at large. He seems to have fancy tastes in feet, but Bostonist suspects that it won't be long before he succumbs to the fecal matter on the feet of a woman wearing flip flops. [Cambridge Chronicle]
-- Apparently, Eric Clapton was right. It is in the way that you use it. If you live in Hingham. A woman from the tony town was arrested after "assaulting" a store clerk with an apple juice bottle and a Slim Jim. She escaped the scene in her black Saab convertible after ripping down a store flag. There's more. She must have blended in with all of the other Saab drivers in Hingham as she eluded the cops for a day. She was brought to justice after an officer observed a Saab driver suspiciously singing along with loud music. Probable cause, clearly. She was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. The comments on the Patriot Ledger's story contain many of the jokes running through your head. [Patriot Ledger]
An unidentified man knocked over a Mansfield Shaw's supermarket last Wednesday by posing as a cash register repairman, police say. According to reports, the criminal mastermind told store employees that he had been sent to fix cash registers in Taunton but that he ended up in Mansfield instead and offered to "fix" some cash registers while he was in the neighborhood. We're not 100% certain that he didn't use air quotes. The story was likely enough that store managers sent him to an ailing cash register, which he allegedly repaired by removing the $460 in cash that had been stuck in it.
Kids, smoking really is hazardous to your health. What started as a smoke between neighbors turned into a murder as Braintree police said Lucas Walters, 28, allegedly killed Jeffrey Phillips, 31, with an ax after the men argued about money Walters owed Phillips. Phillips brandished a rake before Walters hit him in the back and head with the ax. According to prosecutors, Walters kept the body in a shed for two days, and hid the murder weapon, before burying it in Connecticut. Walters bought gas and cigarettes using Phillips' credit card and allegedly sold his TV, computer and Xbox to buy crack cocaine. Walters turned himself in and allegedly told police "I killed him by accident. I’m crazy." He was charged with murder and pled not guilty, held without bail and faces a hearing on August 25. [WCVB, Herald, Globe] All charges alleged until proven under law.
With apologies to John Mellencamp, nothing is more American that batshit criminals. Bostonist found a couple of alleged criminals with a hint of patriotic flair.
Isn't it fitting that the Boston Herald can provide an entire Oddbblotter by itself? Dudes, thanks for always delivering our crazy crime fix.
This Bostonist takes crime seriously. Even flashers. But, flashing is kind of funny. Or, the coverage of it is. Especially if you're Fox25 and your name is Erin Hawksworth. Police in Salem, N.H. are looking for an unnamed man who exposed himself to a woman at the the Mall at Rockingham Park. Fortunately, maybe, there is a surviellance video of the alleged, ahh, assailant, walking in the mall in the moments before he exposed himself. Hawksworth began her report by having to suppress a giggle - just look at her face - and then described the exposure as an "inappropriate act".
We're no experts at robbing people by swordpoint, but we feel certain that we could do a better job at it than the mysterious man, dressed as a ninja, who tried to knock over a Tedeschi convenience store and a dry cleaner in Weymouth. The Patriot Ledger reports that the man threatened a clerk at the convenience store Monday night with a sword, but made a crucial ninja mistake:
The Good Time Emporium, which closed its doors for good this weekend, holds a hallowed place in the Boston Blotter hall-of fame. (This Bostonist will never forget the time that 200 patrons remembered the "reason for the season" with an impromptu Easter Sunday melee.) Were you expecting everybody's favorite go-cart/laser tag/assault and battery locale to close with a classy bow or curtsy? Good Time was not going out like that.
Someone stole an Incredible Hulk statue that was outside a movie theater in Lowell in honor of the latest "Hulk" movie.
Fun palace and Boston Blotter superstar the Good Time Emporium is closing as a direct result of IKEA's arrival in Somerville.
According to police, a group of ten cyclists rode together down Mass. Ave. around 11pm on Saturday, swerving in and out of traffic. When a motorist swerved into traffic to avoid hitting an object, the cyclists allegedly became testy. They traded words with the driver that might well be called terms of estrangement before swarming the vehicle and stopping it by throwing a bike in its path, according to police.
On Bostonist's viral video feature, we saw a gentleman compose a song dedicated to the Bruins, and he threw in a little "pee pee dance." It was cute. But someone did a not-so-cute honest-to-goodness "pee pee dance" at TD Banknorth during the Bruins' game:
If the crocuses and unexpected sunshine haven't clued you in, robbery suspect Timothy Flaherty, 51 of Lawrence, has provided further evidence that spring is upon us. Last night, after allegedly robbing a victim on Beacon Hill, Flaherty led police on a wild chase through the Common and the Public Garden before diving into the Frog Pond Lagoon to elude capture. (We assume that it looks much bigger in the dark.)