Boston Police report arresting a 17-year-old they say had a gun loaded with 14 bullets outside the McDonald's at 301 Warren St. in Roxbury yesterday afternoon - but add that his pal, who ditched his own gun loaded with 7 rounds, managed to flee. Read more.
By adamg - 2/24/25 - 10:52 am
Boston Police report finding three people they suspect broke into an apartment at 66 Dabney St. in Roxbury's Warren Gardens Sunday night. Two were immediately charged with the break in; the third was taken to a local hospital with a gunshot wound to the back, police say. Read more.
By adamg - 2/22/25 - 11:55 am
Boston Police report officers who initially stopped a driver they watched speed through two red lights in a car with excessive tint early Friday arrested him for the the two bags of crack and roughly $24,000 in stolen checks they say he had in the car. Read more.
By adamg - 2/20/25 - 3:18 pm
Keon Leary, 45, was sentenced to 9 to 10 years in state prison after pleading guilty to various drug and gun charges the day he was set to go on trial, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 2/19/25 - 9:51 pm
Two people were shot on Dudley Street, one at Dudley and Mt. Pleasant Avenue, the other outside 225 Dudley Street, closer to Greenville Street, around 8:40 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 2/15/25 - 11:01 am
A group of gun groups and a student from Brewster at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy yesterday sued the state over a regulation that prohibits people between 18 and 20 from owning and walking around with guns - and say this will be their first crack at winning repeal of a law passed last year that also tightens restrictions on automatic weaponry and "ghost" guns. Read more.
By adamg - 2/14/25 - 3:04 pm
Boston Police report officers with a search warrant arrested a Randolph man in an apartment on Cummins Highway in Mattapan Square, where they also found a loaded rifle, three guns and bags of coke, crack and fentanyl Wednesday morning. Read more.
By adamg - 2/10/25 - 12:08 pm
Boston Police report arresting three people on gun charges - one for possession of a loaded machine gun - in the Mildred Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain after gunfire in the Annunciation Road development around 12:45 a.m. on Sunday that sent one bullet through a window and a mirror before it lodged in an apartment wall. Read more.
By adamg - 2/8/25 - 1:32 pm
Boston Police report BPD, State Police and FBI investigators looking into a human-trafficking ring at a Mattapan Square apartment arrested six people Thursday - including one man who tried to flee by jumping out a window, and the man whose car he jumped into in a vain escape attempt. Read more.
By adamg - 2/7/25 - 9:49 am
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Aizavier Roache, 31, to 4 3/4 years in prison for selling at least six guns he'd obtained from a pal who bought them at gun shops in South Carolina. Read more.
By adamg - 1/31/25 - 4:08 pm
Boston Police report Leroy S. Ryner, 18, of Roxbury, was fatally shot at at Morton and West Selden streets in Mattapan around 10:30 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
By adamg - 1/21/25 - 11:26 pm
Victim identified as Kareem DaVeiga-Booth, 20, of Brighton.
A person was shot in the back and left side shortly after 7:20 p.m. at 73 Ridgewood St., off Draper Street in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 1/12/25 - 11:59 am
Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury man they say was asleep behind the wheel of a car on Warren Street near Whiting Street shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Friday - but not for excessive tiredness. Read more.
By adamg - 1/9/25 - 9:20 am
Around 3:30 a.m., somebody fired as many as a dozen rounds along Marcella Street in Roxbury between Highland and Centre streets - but with shell casings also found on the other side of Centre on New Heath Street and on Centre up past New Heath. Read more.
By adamg - 1/6/25 - 9:24 pm
Boston Police report arresting a man they say was selling bootleg Newport cigarettes and illegal weed out of his car behind the Stop & Shop at 468 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall. Read more.
By adamg - 1/6/25 - 10:45 am
A man armed with a rifle and a shotgun burst into his parents' home on Hopewell Road in Hyde Park around 3:35 a.m., fired at least one shot at arriving officers, then barricaded himself in until officers were able to take him into custody, unharmed, around 9:10 a.m. Read more.
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