Two letter carriers were held up this morning, one on Mora Street around 11:15 a.m., and the second about ten minutes later and a couple blocks away on Fuller Street, in Dorchester.
In the Mora case, the suspect appeared to have a gun. In the other case, the robber tried to grab the mailman's master mailbox key, but failed to get it. In both cases, the robber got away in a white sedan.
A man was arrested yesterday afternoon as he was trying to rob the Burger King, 128 Tremont St. downtown, Boston Police report. Read more.
Boston Police report officers who initially stopped a driver for speeding in the area of Washington and Erie streets Friday night wound up arresting him for the gun with the "extended magzine" and the 22 bullets loaded into it they found in his car. Read more.
A federal judge today tossed a Mansfield man's request to quash a charge of using a gun in furtherance of a drug crime on Second Amendment grounds, concluding that even the most recent Supreme Court gun decisions still only allow gun ownership for "law abiding" reasons and that using guns to stave off other drug dealers doesn't count. Read more.
A man was shot in the right side of his chest inside a home on Vesta Road off Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester around 5 p.m.
At least three cars were hit in a barrage of gunfire shortly before 10 p.m. on Abbotsford Street, off Walnut Avenue in Roxbury. More than a dozen shell casings recovered.
Ballistics dog on D Street sniffing out evidence. Photo by Spookybirch.
A woman was shot in the leg on D Street at West 7th Street around 8:30 p.m. Read more.
UMass Boston Police sent out an alert that a man was carjacked at Harbor Point late this afternoon by somebody who had contacted him over SnapChat, allegedly to buy sneakers from him. Read more.
Cambridge Police are reporting some details on the incident with the police officer and self-discharging gun at Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School yesterday. Read more.
Cambridge Police and Cambridge Public Schools report on the discharge at Cambridge Rindge and Latin this afternoon: Read more.
Boston Police and EMS responded to the Starbucks/Paper Store parking lot, 1810 Centre St. in West Roxbury on a report of a man in an SUV with an apparently self-inflected and fatal gunshot wound around 7:45 a.m.
Boston Police report a man arrested Friday on gun charges was later also charged with shooting a man Talbot Avenue at Dorchester Avenue last Sunday, leaving the victim with life-threatening injuries. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old on charges he robbed three convenience stores on Blue Hill Avenue and Harvard Street in Dorchester - just after he entered a fourth store on Friday. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on a variety of charges after they stopped him for driving on the wrong side of the street and speeding and found "an Interarms Ltd .45 caliber handgun loaded with one live .45 cartridge in the chamber and nine .45 in the magazine" and a machete in his car early this morning. Read more.
An AARP mailing to a 51-year-old South End man with a criminal record dating to the 1990s helped investigators tie him to the loaded gun and separate box of ammo they found in a Harrison Archway apartment in February while searching for another man believed to be a Heath Street Gang member. Read more.
Update: Man charged.
A Boston Police officer wearing a ballistic vest was shot outside 80 Esmond St. around 9:40 p.m., a couple minutes after he arrived with other officers to investigate a report of a man skulking around with a gun. Read more.
Boston Police responding to 911 calls about gunfire in the area of Iaconno Playground in Hyde Park around 8:40 p.m. found two houses with gunshot damage - one at Readville Street and Como Road, the other further up Como, past Reynold Road.
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