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By adamg - 8/9/23 - 1:52 pm
City Councilor Erin Murphy (at large) today declared a "public health crisis" being caused by having the same city street sweepers that brush up debris at Mass and Cass also go along the curb in the South End, Chinatown, Bay Village, Beacon Hill and Back Bay - an idea blasted as fearmongering by one of her colleagues. Read more.
By adamg - 8/8/23 - 10:07 pm
Stanley Staco reports a man was stabbed in the stomach in the basement of the Roundhouse, 891 Massachusetts Ave. at Mass and Cass around 9 p.m. Because of the nature of his injuries, the homicide unit was called in. And because of the number of witnesses, officers from across the city were called to the scene.
By adamg - 8/6/23 - 10:40 pm
Surveillance photo via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a tan and white chihuahua that was stolen at 15 Westland Ave. around 10:30 a.m. on Saturday. Read more.
By adamg - 7/31/23 - 1:21 pm
Boston Police report arresting Cristofanes Mendes, the man who was wanted for carjacking and kidnapping for a July 14 incident in which he allegedly took off in a couple's pickup in Dorchester after they got out to check on their 2-year-old son in the back seat, then briefly returned to drop off toddler before speeding off again. Read more.
By adamg - 7/23/23 - 12:39 pm
Three people stabbed outside the Southampton Street shelter were arraigned last week on charges they were the ones doing all the attacking, with knives, gun butts and a milk crate - according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, which reports police are still looking for a separate guy who walked into the shelter with a machete, as well as the owners of one of the two loaded guns police found. Read more.
By adamg - 7/6/23 - 4:12 pm
A man was robbed and stabbed in the back in the area of Southampton and Atkinson streets around 4 p.m.
About 20 minutes later, police nabbed a possible suspect near the Newmarket commuter-rail station.
By adamg - 4/25/23 - 10:32 pm
Boston Police report arresting Nahom Getaneh, 33, on charges he attacked and tried to rape a woman in an alley near Charlesgate in the Back Bay Sunday night. Read more.
By adamg - 4/3/23 - 9:41 am
The owner of a Quality Inn on the Revere/Saugus line is suing the Boston Public Health Commission for the money it says it's owed for holding all of its rooms for three months in 2021 for Mass and Cass denizens who Boston never actually sent there once Revere and Saugus officials erupted in anger on learning of the plan. Read more.
By adamg - 2/13/23 - 9:42 am
A Roxbury man was arraigned last week on charges he hit a pedestrian at the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard on Jan. 20, stopped, then drove away, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 1/20/23 - 11:52 pm
Update: The man was pushing a wheelchair, not in one, when he was hit and killed, the Suffolk County DA's office reports, adding police have identified a "vehicle of interest."
Live Boston reports a driver hit a man in a wheelchair on Melnea Cass Boulevard near Massachusetts Avenue, dragged him down the road, then drove off, leaving the man to die, sometime before 11 p.m. Read more.
By adamg - 12/27/22 - 4:32 pm
A man with a criminal record that dates to the 1980s sold crack to at least two individuals at Atkinson and Southampton streets, then was arrested by police officers who tracked him on a bicycle to Nubian Square and a bus to Roxbury Crossing, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
By adamg - 12/15/22 - 10:15 pm
Boston Police report arresting Ranlee Flores, 34, of Roxbury on charges he stabbed a 68-year-old woman after she resisted her efforts to rob him as she was unloading her SUV on Deckard Street last Thursday. Read more.
By adamg - 12/13/22 - 3:13 pm
A man was stabbed in the elbow at the Alltown Mobil station, 85 Southampton St., around 1:30 p.m. The bleeding was bad enough that arriving officers applied a tourniquet before he was transported to the hospital.
By adamg - 11/1/22 - 1:19 pm
Rendering by SMMA.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved Roxbury Prep's plans for a four-story, 800-student high school at 71 Proctor St., across from the troubled Clifford Park - which the school pledged to help clean up. Read more.
By adamg - 10/20/22 - 12:32 pm
Wu tries to talk as former anti-vax protesters bellow behind her.
Standing in needle-strewn Clifford Park this morning, Mayor Wu called on the state to do more to relieve pressure on Mass and Cass, in a press conference cut short by screaming protesters who used to follow her around banging buckets over her Covid-19 policies but who had to find something else with which to fill their days now that nobody cares about them anymore. Read more.
By adamg - 9/30/22 - 11:28 pm
Boston Police report arresting Felix Antonio Palmer, 36, on charges he raped a woman at D and West 5th streets around 5:40 a.m. on Sept. 23.
In addition to rape, he is also charged with indecent assault and battery and assault and battery, police say.
Innocent, etc.
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