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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] more ›

-- 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.... more ›

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... more ›

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"... more ›

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... more ›

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. more ›

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. more ›