-- The victim of Saturday night's fatal stabbing in South Boston has been identified by police as Curtis Ashford, 24, of Roxbury. No arrests have been made in the case, which police are actively investigating. [BPDNews] -- The arraignment hearing of Kenneth Mauras, a 17-year-old Roslindale youth who faces charges of hit and run following a Hyde Park drag racing escapade, was the scene of a mêlée yesterday morning. After the hearing, Mauras's family and......

--It's always fun when a story is headlined, "Is it raining weed?" Five Roslindale residents--with ages ranging from 14 to 22--were arrested after allegedly forcing their way into an apartment building and heading upstairs. After police showed up en masse, one suspect "dropped a bag containing a green leafy substance believed to be marijuana on the head of a detective” from a balcony. They were arrested on breaking and entering and marijuana charges. [Roslindale......

--The Executive Director of the Turnpike Authority wants to CharlieCard everything so that you can use your card at the tolls. While we're all for not having to save spare change, automation might make it easier to miss fare hikes. [Boston Herald] --Massachusetts Bay Community College has been accused of spending money like a drunken sailor. While $450,000 may sound like peanuts in a city whose private schools roll in money, some staff aren't......

--While the episode of a BPD officer holding up a Roslindale gas station is still fresh in our memory, two BPD officers are accused of breaking the law. One narcotics detective tested positive for steroids, and a domestic violence detective was arrested for assaulting his girlfriend. Did these two not get the memo? Don't become the bad guys. [Boston Globe] --Bostonist saw that Che Sosa, the man who stabbed his own attorney while on trial......

--Two men have been arrested in the murder of the woman whose body was found in a Dumpster in Dracut on Sunday. Middlesex DA Gerry Leone believes the murder stems from domestic violence. [Boston Globe] --Adam offers a helpful tip to the Globe if they want to start investigating the sudden increase of alleged gang violence in Roslindale. [Universal Hub] --A West Boylston high-school teacher was arraigned today for Internet-based crimes, including "distributing material harmful......

--While the BPD's attempt to round up the city's criminal element was noble, it didn't work. Someone shot two brothers, a 12-year-old and an 18-year-old, through the window of their own home last night in Roslindale. They are in critical condition but improving. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald] --Two female Boston University students were assaulted in their beds and in their own dorm rooms early Sunday morning. [WBZ] --In Lowell early yesterday morning, a man......

The past few days in Boston have been violent, and the BPD has its hands full. More information has come out about the shootings that happened yesterday afternoon. The most startling news? The three people who were shot in Roslindale at Metropolitan and Poplar yesterday--one of whom died--were in a car in a funeral procession for another crime victim. According to the Globe, they were attending the funeral of Darrion Carrington, the man who was......

Update: One of the individuals shot in Roslindale has died. The victim was shot in the head. [WBZ] --Four people were shot today in Boston, and two of them might die in what the Globe accurately described as a "spasm" of violence. One of the individuals was shot in Dorchester on Topliff, and the other three were shot at Beech and Washington in Roslindale. Two schools went into lockdown. [Boston Globe, Boston Herald] All charges......

--Michael T. Jones, the BPD officer arrested for holding up a Roslindale gas station, was arraigned today in the hospital. His lawyer offers an explanation for Jones' alleged behavior--alcohol. His lawyer also said Jones wasn't taking his medication. [WBZ, Boston Herald] --The Herald has a profile of Reverend Shaun O. Harrison, who runs Operation Project Go (Gangs Out). He has asked teens with guns to turn their weapons into him, and he won't ask any......

--A man was shot yesterday afternoon on Dorchester Avenue in what the Herald describes as an "ambush from behind." The 20-year-old victim was taken to the hospital but later died from his wounds. [BPD News, Boston Herald] --Fallout from the BPD officer arrested for holding up a Roslindale gas station. The family of Michael T. Jones is surprised. His mother added a few more details about him and said that he took time off from......

--A BPD officer allegedly held up the Best of Boston gas station in Roslindale. You read that right. A BPD officer held up a gas station yesterday afternoon. The officer, 44-year-old Michael T. Jones, wasn't in uniform, nor was he driving his cruiser, but he used his police gun in the robbery. Police Commish Ed Davis, who has dealt with headache after headache in this job, called it "reprehensible," and that's an understatement. Jones has......

--Craig Bigos, who hit a teenager while driving in Taunton, took off, and later surrendered to police, admitted that he was texting while driving. He initially thought the 13-year-old he hit was a mailbox. [Boston Globe] --The lawyer for Robert Iacoviello, the man arrested for allegedly killing Revere police officer Dan Talbot in September, is asking questions about audio and videotape evidence. Three suspects related to the killing--Iacoviello, James Heang, and Derek Lodie--are now being......

A 17-year-old from Roslindale was arrested for stealing a gun from an MBTA agent at the Chinatown stop last night. The surveillance photos provided by the MBTA show Nelson Otuechere of Roslindale accosting a T agent to get her sidearm. Joe Pesaturo at the MBTA said that all MBTA revenue agents carry sidearms. (This Bostonist did not realize.) Another agent leapt into the fray and stopped the teenager, who was promptly arrested by MBTA......

Google Street View has been available in several cities but has now made its debut in Boston, according to the Globe. The process allows you to take a 360 view of an address. If you want to use it, just go to Google Maps, type in a Boston address, and click on the little yellow man that pops up at the address. A new window will appear with a street-level image of the area. You......

--BPD News was still down the last time we checked. We feel adrift. But we saw a few entries on Wicked Local … --Police arrested individuals involved in a "cutting party" in Sudbury on Tuesday. Norman Miller of the MetroWest Daily News described the incident as "booze-fueled." The cutting also enters a gray legal area because the cutting may have been consensual. The lawyer said that Sarah Handy, 23, cut Meagan Hauff, 21, both of......

--Where have all the gay bars gone? Robert David Sullivan writes that we should be concerned about their disappearance: "In the Boston area, many of Harvard Square's bookstores, Kenmore Square's student eateries, and myriad other places that guaranteed a diverse urban experience have closed their doors, replaced by a far more uniform lineup of bank branches, chain stores, and upscale restaurants." A must-read. [Boston Globe] --If you haven't noticed with the cold temperatures and long......

--A cabbie got shot by an armed robber early yesterday morning in Roxbury. O'Ryan Johnson writes that the cabbie was changing a tire when the robber accosted him. After the cabbie handed everything over, the robber shot him and wounded him in the leg and buttocks. Elsewhere, early this morning, a man was shot several times in Roslindale and is now in the hospital. --More problems for cabbies: A BU student gave a cabbie a......

--A gun battle erupted in Dorchester yesterday afternoon. A teenager was wounded, and a No. 23 bus got shot up. The teen, Walter West, was celebrating his 16th birthday. His gift was that his wounds are non-life-threatening, and no one on the bus got hurt. The BPD told the Herald that the gunfire was "likely related to a feud between gangs on Morse and Lucerne streets." --The city has announced another new plan to cut......

--Six drag racers got busted for sneaky-driving on Washington Street in Roslindale early Sunday morning. Jessica M. Smith of the Roslindale Transcript reports that the racers set up lookouts. Five Honda Civics were towed as well. Did Honda Civics strike you as worthy of 2 Fast 2 Furious? --Mayor Menino and Commish Ed Davis have announced that they want colleges to crack down on students who act up during the World Series. Menino said that......

--At Fairview and Robert, a 15-year-old masked teenager from Roslindale tried to steal a woman's bag last night. The woman started yelling, and two people at a gas station ran after him and caught him. The perp tried to say he was only 15. Nice try, bub. He was still arrested. Elsewhere on the Blotter, police arrested a whole bunch of alleged hookers as part of "Operation Squeeze." One of them was 56 years old.......

--A Framingham tagger got caught because he still had blue paint on his hands* when the cops found him. According to police, Josh Kirby, 31, of Framingham "He claimed he was an artist and it was just like an addiction, spray painting." Next time, bring the soap. --The BPD arrested 20-year-old Rohan Gomes, of Roslindale, yesterday morning as a suspect in a shooting that took place in Jamaica Plain on September 2. An officer was......

--Now, this didn't happen in Boston, but, as the Sports Redux mentioned earlier, a Massachusetts man and Red Sox fan was attacked by two men in New York. The men had asked him if he was loyal to the Red Sox. Carlos Ortez, 25, of Quincy, is now in the intensive care unit at Westchester Medical Center with multiple facial fractures. He was in New York to work on a construction project for a Manhattan......

--Sure, people like to collect knickknacks. Salt-and-pepper shakers, Beanie Babies, comic books, parking meters. Yeah, parking meters, 123 of 'em, in fact. Thomas Gannon of Cambridge had cut the meters off poles all over Cambridge and Somerville. Police stumbled upon them when visiting Gannon for other reasons on Monday night. Master of understatement and Cambridge PD spokesman Frank Pasquarello said, "This does seem to be odd." Indeed. --Police arrested 17-year-old Derek Lodie, of Revere, for......

We've fretted over the fate of food delivery people before. Now, after the Globe's latest piece about the perils faced by food delivery people, we ask you to hug your pizza delivery guy today. Those people work hard for their money, and it's a risky gig. There have been 52 delivery-related robberies this year. The BPD blotter is often full of cases in which a food delivery guy gets held up for a free pizza......

--Cookie Monster would be very, very sad. An employee of the Bon Appetit restaurant inside Lesley University lost his mind on Saturday morning and told his boss exactly how he felt. Jose Arevalo's boss told him to plate some cookies. He didn't feel like plating any damn cookies, so he said he "wasn't listening to her because she was a woman," shoved her, squeezed her neck, and threw her into the door of the walk-in......

--Another winning headline from the mysterious BPD Blotter writer: "Adding Assault to Injury." Early this morning, Latanya Minors allegedly played bumper cars with another car. She struck a car, which had two occupants inside. Then she drove around the block and did it again. Minors wasn't finished - witnesses tried to "confront" her (BPD parlance), upon which she punched them and threw her keys at them. Also on the blotter: a robbery attempt at the......

Angela Vasquez, the mother who allegedly killed her son and daughter and attempted to kill herself in Roslindale Sunday night, has been charged for two counts of murder. She appeared in court yesterday, where she was "deemed suicidal." She will undergo a psychological evaluation. As far as the crime itself is concerned, police have revealed that her two children died from poisoning, not from stabbing, and that they may have been dead for two days......

In a shocking, tragic incident, two children were stabbed to death in Roslindale last night, and their mother was sent to the hospital with self-inflicted stab wounds. One victim was a 10-year-old boy, and the other was a 12-year-old young woman. The mother is 31. News reports are indicating that the mother may have been suicidal. According to the Herald, the mother called her best friend and said, "I’m moving on. Don’t worry about me."......

--Yesterday in Boston, a federal judge declared the government must pay $101 million to Joseph Salvati, Peter Limone, and the families of Louis Greco and Henry Tameleo for a wrongful conviction with a Goodfellas-worthy storyline. Here's the gist of the story. Someone killed Edward "Teddy" Deegan in 1965. Joseph "The Animal" Barboza said these four men did it – to protect an FBI informant, Vincent "Jimmy" Flemmi. So Barboza lied – and the FBI knew......

Fourth of July. Barbecues, fireworks, alcohol...and mischief in Boston streets. Who would have thought? -- Police are on the lookout for Michael Stokes, 23. A woman told police that Stokes had a firearm when he assaulted her at her residence in Dorchester today, but then jumped out a third floor window to escape authorities. He is described as a 5'7 black male with a slim build. There was a gun found, but police are still......