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--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]

Bostonist presents a public service announcement … Mayor Tom Menino and Police Commissioner Ed Davis held a press conference today to let the city know that the party police would be out in force for Game 7 in the ALCS. Whether the Red Sox win or lose (and they're gonna win, right?), the BPD will be ready. But, if you didn't get a ticket and you're planning on swarming upon Fenway Park, The Boston Police...

-- The Boston Police Department's news brief headline summed this one up perfectly with "With Friends Like These...Who Needs Enemies": East Boston guy goes out with his friend on Monday afternoon. Friend goes back to guy's house, breaks through the window and steals some of the guy's toys (iPod, digital camera, PlayStation). When guy confronts friend about the theft, friend smashes guy's digital camera right in front of him. Bostonist says guy needs new friends....

The word "douchebag" tends to be overexposed thanks to Jon Stewart's frequent use of it on the Daily Show. But two guys earned the title of "douchebags" when they interrupted Keith Lockhart and the Pops' opening night with a fight. A woman unleashed an amazing scream. A few seconds later came multiple screams and the disturbance as two guys started fighting, then it turned all trailer-park when one of the guys' shirts got ripped off....

The cost of doing business usually accounts for the stolen pencils and office supplies that employees will pocket and take home with them. Some staples here, tape there, or a couple of personal Xeroxes now and again are par for the course. News came out today that the MBTA police have uncovered one employee taking home a little more than that. A 69 year old retired electrician for the T had been taking home tokens and coins for long enough to amass 17 five-gallon buckets full, approximate cash value of about $40,000. A nice boost to his retirement savings. Or it was, until the cameras caught him plunking token after token into the CharlieVendingMachines at Wellington Station. He'd maxed out some number of CharlieTickets/CharlieCards at $100. After they questioned him at his home he showed them the booty stored in his basement. Arraignment is set for March 21.

Can you have a proper blotter if you can't report a crime? Yesterday afternoon, residents of East Boston lost 911 service briefly thanks to what the BPD described as "Verizon technical issues." In this world of iPhones and camera phones and phones that could butter your bread, not being able to call 911 because of "technical issues" is unacceptable. If you ever have 911 issues, the BPD website says you can call a BPD operator...

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"...

The Boston Police Department issued a press release today indicating that twenty-three people will be charged for crack and cocaine distribution in the Bromley-Heath housing development in Jamaica Plain. In season one of The Wire it was Avon Barksdale working for control of The Towers – its season four now and the lines are still tapped in hopes of shutting down Marlo Stanfield's operation. The fiction of HBO's drama is well developed and revolves around...

Maybe Romney is upset that he can't pronounce Ahmadinejad correctly (who can?). Perhaps he's afraid that there aren't enough of the Chargers for the Staties to drive. Or maybe he's just making another calculated move for a potential 2008 Presidential bid. Whatever the case may be, Romney has ordered to refuse all requests for security details in protection of the former Iranian president, Mohammad Khatami. A visit by Khatami has been scheduled for this Sunday, September 10 at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. We haven't been able to uncover any evidence of a deliberate effort to make this happen on the eve of the five-year anniversary of the September 11th attacks, but it's certainly received much media mention. Despite Romney's pledge, the visit is still on schedule.

Back in December the Boston Herald ran a front page story that two had been arrested in the Dorchester quadruple murder case. The Boston Police Department was quick to rebut the claims by the Herald, but after the announcements this weekend we're wondering if their tipster was credible after all. Calvin Carnes Jr. and Robert Turner, both 19, have been arrested and arraigned on charges relating to the murders on December 13, 2005. Each of the men accused have entered a plea of not guilty to the charges handed to them – Carnes for the murders and Turner in conspiracy and other charges relating to the crime. The main-stream press over the weekend indicated that the Boston Police have been investigating the case for the last six months and have finally come up with evidence enough to charge the two. As the AP report indicates illegal firearms may have been motive for the shootings (as run in both the Globe and the Herald)

[Suffolk County] Assistant District Attorney David Meier said the arrests came after a six-month police investigation and an ongoing grand jury probe. He said Carnes and Turner took three guns from the studio and made repeated unsuccessful attempts to sell them in the months after the slayings.

Bostonist is happy to hear that there is some motion in the case revolving around the murder of four members of the group Graveside. With crime on the increase in Boston, shootings up this year and the overall murder rate skyrocketing for 2005 over other years, it comes as some solace that the Boston Police Department is making some headway on existing cases. Considering the departure of Commissioner Kathleen O'Toole it's good to know that closing cases is still a priority for the BPD. Although we wonder if the Herald's initial report of "Two Nabbed" back on December 18, 2005 may have related to the "Two Nabbed" we read about this weekend (May 20, 2006) it's no matter as long as some movement in the right direction is being made.

For many women in Boston, an evening of drinking with friends ends with hailing a cab and heading home for the night. Yet, no matter what inebriated state one might be in, police are telling all women to keep their guard up as a man posing as a cab driver has picked up two women separately in the Faneuil Hall area, driven them to Cambridge, and sexually assaulted them. In one case, the man picked up a woman in a dark-colored SUV, drove her to the Alewife T station, assaulted her and left her there. The second assault was almost exactly the same but the man was driving a white car that looked like a Boston cab.

This past weekend Franklin Park again played host to the annual Puerto Rican Festival. Boston seems to have lost interest in the festival overall. The only imagery, besides our own, found in local media came in the form of a single picture run in black and white in the Boston Globe and in color in the Metro. The Boston Herald used some imagery from the parade to discuss the recent filing in U.S. District Court that Boston failed to fulfill it's obligation to furnish election related materials in Spanish as well as English. The festival spanned three days in Franklin Park filled with food (some really good food), music, carnival rides, and anything you could ever want with the flag of Puerto Rico on it. Anything you could want, and more, that is, from hats and shirts, to Sponge Bob, to items heavily lacquered which, as best as Bostonist could tell, were meant for mantle decoration all carried the flag.

The woman is being held on $2,500 bail and police are still looking for her two accomplices. Bostonist wonders how all the security in Copley didn't notice these women and their spree. Every time Bostonist saunters in, you'd think the Secret Service was in town.