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Police say man barricaded himself in Dorchester three decker after landlord sent somebody to replace locks in the building
By adamg on Tue, 10/22/2019 - 9:35pm
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on gun charges after an incident on Hildreth Street that ended with a SWAT team storming a building and taking him into custody.
Police say that shortly before 5 p.m., Victor Ryland, 54, became enraged when a worker arrived to change locks on the apartments in a Hildreth Street three decker - to the point of threatening the worker with a gun.
Officers began to canvas the area when they observed a male matching the given description standing in the backyard. Upon seeing the officers, the suspect dropped what appeared to be a firearm on the ground and immediately jumped over the railing of the rear porch, entered the building and locked the door, consequently, barricading himself inside the location. The officers then recovered the firearm, which was determined to be a loaded 9mm Beretta handgun, while calling for the Boston Police SWAT Team and hostage negotiators to respond to the scene. After negotiation efforts failed, members of the BPD SWAT Team performed a forced entry and placed the suspect in custody without further incident.
Ryland was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition, possession of a large-capacity feeding device and assault with a dangerous weapon, police say.
Innocent, etc.
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Ma tenant rights
From experience I know he received several notices prior to the lockout. Seems he chose the hard road and at his age there are no excuses. Pig headed.
"From experience"
"From experience"
Let me guess, you hand these out, bootlicker?
The whole “bootlicker” insult
The whole “bootlicker” insult is so hilarious. I don’t know a single BPD patrol officer that wears boots, except for MOP.
Also chuckled that you take time out of your day for your diatribe even when police did a good job here. They responded to an armed suspect and no one got hurt. That must drive you nuts. [This is the part where you now respond about “No, what drives me nuts about pigs and boot lockers is..” but I’ll just skip over your comment without reading it.]
- a Boston Non-Boot Wearing Cop
What did they do so well?
They kicked someone out of his home so his landlord could reap greater profits.
When you understand that Police protect the rights of rich people to exploit poor people, they certainly can be said to do that well.
The cops did a good job.
The cops did a good job.
But the job was created by society being cruel.
Cruelty makes society expensive to keep safe, cops aren't free. We're making bad decisions politically because we are and are voting for selfish jerks that concern themselves far too much with private rights.
But you are right, cops aren't to blame when the violence starts. It's ours.
Not necessarily
By law he is *required* to receive notice, but that doesn't mean it actually happened. If he was being evicted, a sheriff would have been there to evict him, and if he wasn't being evicted, then the locks shouldn't have been changed.
This may be a self- help eviction.
Not Dot
This occurred in Mattapan
So ...
Morton Street isn't the dividing line?
How would you feel?
How would you feel if you were getting evicted so your landlord could make more profit off some gentrifier?
He seems nice.
But using a 9mm (according to the BPD report he was not authorized to possess said weapon) to threaten someone who's just doing their job seems a bit much. Perhaps the reason for eviction has more to do with the tenant's behavior and less about Chad and Muffy's burning desire for granite and stainless.
Trust me - no one is trying
Trust me - no one is trying to gentrify this part of town.
FALSE
It is now in the beginning stages but it is assuredly happening.
He coincidentally has the
He coincidentally has the same last name as the former owner of the property and has a relatively lengthy history in housing court for said property from even before the sale. Sounds like this is a little more than an eviction gone bad.
Not easy being a landlord,
Not easy being a landlord, not all peaches and creme.
so hard...
It's just so hard to profit off of other peoples need for shelter because you hoard ownership rights and don't give anyone access unless they pay you an inflated value every month. Such a struggle.
If you're going to barricade
If you're going to barricade yourself inside an apartment, wouldn't you *want* new locks installed?
"...members of the BPD SWAT
"...members of the BPD SWAT Team performed a forced entry and placed the suspect in custody without further incident ..."
Landlord will be replacing more than the locks now...