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Latest large Roslindale road party ends with three suburbanites arrested, two guns seized, police say

Boston Police report officers responding to an "officer in trouble" call from Canterbury Street off Walk Hill Street late Friday found the road clogged with more than 100 vehicles - and some party-goers jumping on the pickup of a DYS officer and banging on his windows.

Police report the road was so clogged with cars - whose drivers ran to them to try to get away when the cops arrived - that officers had to park on Walk Hill Street and run down the street to the DYS officer's vehicle.

The officer told police he was leaving work at the Judge Connelly Youth Center further down Canterbury when he was blocked in, shortly before 11:35 p.m.

One of the cars side swiped his car and tried to drive away. At that time, people began to surround his truck and bash on the windows. Once officers arrived on scene, the crowd began to disperse. The officer was not injured and declined medical attention. The officer was able to exchange paperwork with the operator of the other involved vehicle.

Over the past couple of years, Canterbury has sometimes become a party zone for people taking a break from roaring up and down American Legion Highway. Last year, one partier was charged with crashing into a state trooper's cruiser there.

Police say Geraldo Colon, 21, of Framingham, was the first to be arrested:

Officers observed one of the suspects enter a vehicle that did not have a front license plate. Officers approached the vehicle and requested the suspect’s license and registration. The suspect placed his hand on the gear shifter, and refused to identify himself. Officers requested the suspect to identify himself which he refused a second time. The suspect shifted the vehicle into reverse, then quickly drove away, almost striking officers.

Due to heavy traffic in the area, officers pursued the vehicle on foot, and demanded the operator to exit the vehicle. The suspect refused to exit the vehicle, and began to reach towards a bag near the center console. Officers drew their department issued firearms and ordered the suspect and passengers to not move. Officers were able to remove all the occupants from the vehicle and placed them into handcuffs. Officers immediately conducted a pat frisk of the vehicle and recovered a firearm. Officers then conducted a motor vehicle inventory search and recovered three different license plates, three different key fobs.

In a separate arrest involving another car, Alan Ridenour, 19, of Marlboro, was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of a loaded firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition and unlawful possession of a large-capacity feeding device, while Mario Florian, 19, of Ashland, was charged with unlawful possession of a firearm.

Innocent, etc.

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Nightlife.

What are they celebrating?

It's unacceptable how long this has been going on for. The cops know they do this all the time....they can't all be getting up to go to work the next day so hopefully BPD will put more pressure on them to stop this maddness.

Another example of something that would never be tolerated in the suburbs around Boston !

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It looks like only dead people reside here for quite some distance in any direction. You're not in some busy place like Roslindale Square.

spic and span

There are residences there, lots of new ones across the street as well.

Also, lots of dead people who I am sure have families that would prefer not to have their ancestors burial sites disturbed.

What a bunch of scum.

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There are a bunch of condos and apartments just on the other side of Walk Hill. Plus, I'm kind of doubting the partiers just quietly rolled up along Walk Hill and/or American Legion to get there.

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Do you realize that your punctuation is slightly off?

If you're posting a comment just to complain about somebody's grammar or spelling, please don't.

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You can't be real

They're spreading so much joy!

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and misdemeanors

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Hundreds of suburbanites invade Boston to party outside a youth detention facility. I wonder if the juvenile inmates looking out the windows enjoyed the show. These parties will continue because the police are powerless, and the courts don't care.

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Why are kids from Metrowest driving an hour to party in Boston? I don't get it.

Not exactly party city.

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I remember growing up in Foxboro and kids would party behind what was Sullivan Stadium but no loud cars and guns were involved. The stadium parking lots were off limits since the poilice wouldn't allow groups to gather and the pre Kraft owners of the stadium locked the gates. And back then parents could control their kids. Now many kids don't listen to their parents and do whatever they want starting as teens and when they get into their 20s they aren't exactly young professionals sadly.

Suburbanites won't tolerate such large scale bad behavior; not sure why Bostonians have to?

I will ask Councilor Pepen next time I see him if he can help with this issue since he is amazing and is one of the few Boston officials that responds to all citizens complaints :)

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Sorry, but the kids today argument is nonsense. If anything, I'd say parents in general are significantly more involved in their teens lives than when I was growing up in the 80s/90s. And I have had a lot of colleagues in their 20s, and have been impressed as hell by how accomplished and professional they are. In fact, by and large, many of them are years ahead of where many of my peers of my own generation were in our 30s.

Of course, not all kids and young adults (now or then) are following the best path or making the best choices. And probably, in a lot of those cases, some of the blame belongs to how they were (or weren't raised), but to claim that this is the result of some big generational shift is silly, and has probably always been used to explain why kids today are (supposedly) so much worse than in previous generations.

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C'mon man

None of it involved guns or large groups of cars that acted agressively towards police.

Maybe this stuff always used to happen and wasn't reported before social media but I am seeing less parental involvement in lower economic communities ( of all races).

Here is one recent incident involving a 14 year old and a gun as an example....

https://www.universalhub.com/crime/20240729/14-year-old-was-tooling-arou...

(picture me shrugging my shoulders.)

I am sure when they are arrested and local news interviews friends, family, and neighbors.. they will all say "they were nice young boys".

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You can do whatever you want if you're an American man. We voted on this a week ago.

We're down to the civility and decency of individuals. May you all encounter only the best among us.

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Want to drive around without a license plate? Or with a license plate obscured by a dark cover? Have a nice day! At least you're not on a bicycle.

>> license plate obscured by a dark cover

We've been seeing this more and more often lately (mostly on new-ish cars). Are some dealerships actually seeling cars with this "feature"?

Is that the thumbtack and the ball bearing remain legal.

In areas where these "sideshows" have become absolutely toxic, some residents have taken to DIY installations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnYBXXsx6Uw

Well, yeah, they do jack (expletive) about homeless people taking a (expletive) everywhere, what chance does reckless driving have?

Government is a malignant cancer, especially in California, where it knows it can get away with abuse, because the electorate will give them a second chance every time.

You can do whatever you want if you're an American man. We voted on this a week ago.

Yeh...if you're a white American man, that's true.

Turd. I think most commenters agree this is bad behavior, but you're off ranting about what you imagine to be others' response to it. Who is defending these kids talking about "vibrancy", "joy", and "nice young boys"?

The "back in my day" argument of (What's the matter with) kids today - rather, late adolescents (20-25) always fails. We don't change. But what has changed is technological tools for being jerks.

First and foremost are cars. With a car it's easy to go elsewhere and be a jerk. With cars the social rules and limitations that might exist where one lives are left at home.

Computers and social media. It was virtually impossible to cause 100 people to descend on one place with a day's notice before social media. Perhaps social media, after all is said and done, needs to end. Elon and Mark have little complaint. They've made their millions, billions and maybe trillion.

Does the value of good provided by social media outweigh the bad that social media makes possible? For that matter, is anything provided by social media such as Facebook or X qualify as actually good? Or do the services they provide not meet the criteria of making positive contributions but are instead neutral in contributions to the public good? For example nostalgic groups on Facebook? They are nice but do they add value? When weighing the not good nor bad services of the media, along with what contributions to these gatherings, mass thievery, etc., is social media when weighed actually contributing to greater harm to society as a whole?

On the other hand if Voldermort tries to get the Posse Comitatus Act revoked, allowing use of US military in "enforcing" domestic laws, (effectively pushing toward a nation where the WH sends in the military if any locality doesn't kiss his fetid bum - so much for state's rights) then social media might be a life saver.