Dyette in customized Cincinnati jersey, via US Attorney.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Keiarri "Kemo" Dyette, 26, to 42 months in federal prison for his role in the Cameron Street gang, which included beating a member of the rival Wendover Street gang bloody with a gun and selling guns to a man who turned out to be working for the feds, the US Attorney's office in Boston reports. Read more.
A Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday convicted Nickoyan Wallace, 49, of first-degree murder for gunning down Ivanildo Barros on Park Street in Dorchester in 2021, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
A Dorchester man faces a variety of gun charges - including possession of a machine gun - after he led BPD gang-unit officers and state troopers on a foot chase Tuesday evening, police say. Read more.
Rendering by RODE Architects.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a land owner's plans to replace a Richdale and a parking lot on its land at 1420 Dorchester Ave., near Adams Street in Dorchester, with a five-story, 46-unit apartment building. Read more.
Rendering by Utile, showing institute buildings in rear, behind garden entranceway.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute for a three-story Center of Healing, Teaching, and Learning on what are now two city-owned vacant lots at 30 Westville St. in Dorchester. Read more.
A man was shot at Harbor Point Boulevard and Westwind Road in the Harbor Point complex in Dorchester around 9 p.m.
One car had a bullet go through one of its tires.
Boston Police report a guy pointed a gun at a man, robbed him of $140 and then beat him in the head with a gun, at Columbia Road and Hancock Street in Dorchester around 12:35 a.m. Read more.
The state's list of beaches where you need to not even think of going into the water, include Savin Hill and Tenean beaches in Dorchester, Houghton's Pond in Milton and Walden Pond in Concord.
Bethea running with gun after Canton home invasion. Surveillance photo via ATF.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Daronde Bethea to 250 months - 20 years, 10 months - in prison for his role in the Cameron Street Gang, which included trying to gun down a member of the rival Wendover Street Gang and participating in armed home invasions in Dorchester and Canton, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on the flaming bus carrying students from the Josiah Quincy School in Chinatown on I-93 north in Dorchester this afternoon.
Boston firefighters responded to 27 Edson St. for a fire that quickly went to four alarms and spread to a neighboring building, shortly before 6:30 p.m. Read more.
After the fire was knocked down. Photo by BFD.
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire that started in the rear of a three decker at 7 Carson St. in Dorchester around 5 a.m. quickly spread to its neighboring buildings. Read more.
A federal jury today convicted Stavros Papantoniadis for a reign of terror against his workers, which included sending one man into surgery twice and and tormenting other workers by threatening them with death and with turning them into ICE. Read more.
Roving UHub photographer Butternugz checked in from the northbound Expressway this morning, where he briefly shared the road with this van. He reports the driver was "dressed in full Star Wars flight gear with a helmet, waving a light saber out the window," and was repeatedly screaming "Fuck dem, it's us against them! " through the speaker mounted on the top of the van. Butternugz is not absolutely sure who "dem" are, but one possible tell is the small Confederate-flag sticker on the right window.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced an alleged Creston Street gang associate to 42 months in federal prison for his role in a ring that transported at least 24 guns purchased in Alabama to Boston, where they sold most of them to people on the street, including one seized after a shooting. Read more.
The U.S. Attorney's office yesterday moved to confiscate some $5.3 million it says was stolen from a Dorchester-based union through a scheme in which scammers used forged e-mail addresses to convince the union to transfer money from its account to a scammer account that was then used to funnel the money to banks across the US, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Nigeria. Read more.
Just when you think you've heard it all: At 9.26 p.m., the MBTA reported 20-minute delays on the Mattapan Line "due to poor lighting at Valley Road" - which the trolleys were just completely bypassing. The T rolled out shuttle buses.
The Boston Licensing Board decides tomorrow whether to let the owner of the venerable Blarney Stone, 1505 Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester, sell his liquor license to Yancarlo Fernandez of Dorchester, who is planning a new menu focusing on "modern international cuisine" and tapas, his attorney said today. Read more.
A Jesuit priest now living in the order's retirement home in Weston faces arraignment June 27 on a charge that he raped a student at Boston College High School in Dorchester when he was a theology teacher there, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office announced. Read more.
A woman who smuggled some tequila - and blue Gatorade mixer - into the South Bay Applebee's rather than simply chugging down the chain's cheapo maragarita specials one afternoon last October got the restaurant hauled before the Boston Licensing Board today for a disturbance that left her and some poor guy who'd walked over from the nearby Olive Garden laid out outside. Read more.
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