A Randolph man was ordered held because he couldn't come up with $5,000 bail at his arraignment Monday on charges he had something to do with the shooting and moped robbery of a man on Geneva Avenue at Westville Street shortly before 2:20 a.m. on Saturday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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Boston Police report officers had little trouble finding a suspect in a moped robbery yesterday: He was the guy being pinned to the ground by a group of people at Arcadia Park and Ditson Street in Dorchester's Fields Corner. Read more.
Five people were shot in the the area of Circuit Drive between Pierpont Road and the golf clubhouse tonight. Read more.
Boston Police report they are looking for a chain robber who displayed a gun to force one of women to give up a chain she was wearing on Dudley Street at Clarence Street in Roxbury around 8:20 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
A Chelsea man was arrested today on charges he held up Rockland Trust branches on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain and Truman Parkway in Hyde Park last month, as well as a bank in Weymouth. Read more.
Victim identified as Leudis Mejia Sanchez, 49, of Dorchester.
Two men were shot in an apartment at 5 Trent Street in Dorchester around 6:40 p.m. Read more.
A person was shot shortly before 10 p.m. on Saturday on Castlegate Road at Normandy Street. Injuries not considered life threatening. A gun was recovered at the scene.
A Manchester, NH man faces charges that he spent part of Monday driving around Mattapan and Dorchester, pointing a BB gun that looked more like an assault weapon at people - and that he got off at least three rounds from the thing without hitting anybody while strolling down one Dorchester street. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a man they say shot another man outside 10 Roxbury St. in Nubian Square shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
Boston Police report a man was shot at 28 Fernboro St. in Dorchester around 8 a.m. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting Christian Coloma, 25, of Roslindale on charges related to a man getting shot in the chest outside the Jackson Square Orange Line stop yesterday afternoon. Read more.
Update: Suspect arrested in connection with the shooting.
A man in a pickup truck was shot in the chest next to the Jackson Square MBTA stop shortly before 2:40 p.m. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of the victim's injuries.
A possible suspect on a scooter was detained several blocks away; a gun recovered along the route he took to get there.
Boston Police report that officers who pulled over a speeding car whose driver didn't have current registration on Wood Avenue near Oakwood Street around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday. Read more.
Two 15-year-olds were ordered held without bail after they were arrested on charges for holding up a pre-teen waiting for a cookout at the Children's Park playground at Intervale and Fernboro streets in Dorchester Thursday evening, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Patrick Mendoza, the now former owner of Monica's Trattoria on Prince Street in the North End, today pleaded guilty to charges that he tried murdering a guy with whom he had beef in front of Modern Pastry on Hanover Street last July 12, Oscar Margáin reports from Suffolk Superior Court. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a man they say was walking around Humboldt Avenue and Townsend Street in Roxbury with a loaded gun in his waistband Thursday evening. Read more.