Robert Ciampi, 63, arrested on several drug-dealing charges at the Victory Gardens senior-citizen apartment complex in East Boston last week, is not an unfamiliar person to Boston detectives: He has a record of arrests and convictions since 1975 - when he was just 15 - the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Seized drugs and cash.
Update: Bail set at $5,000 but he has to stay at home with a GPS monitor on except for 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Weds.-Sun. so he can go to a job in Maine, DA says. Ordered to stay drug and alcohol free and to surrender his passport.Boston Police report arresting an East Boston man on several drug charges today at the Victory Gardens apartment building, 54 Orleans St. in East Boston. Read more.
Incipient Lake Maverick.
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about the sinkole of unusual size forming at Maverick and Orleans streets in East Boston: Read more.
Frattaroli was not happy today.
On July 15, a doorman at the Cunard Tavern on Orleans Street in East Boston was trying to get an argumentative patron out of the place when a large rando - 6'3" and 260 lbs. or so - walked in off the street and punched the doorman, exposing an ankle bracelet of the sort judges order people awaiting trial or on probation to wear, according to police and restaurant owner Philip Frattaroli. Read more.
Rendering of building at Bremen and Gove streets by Embarc Studio.
A private developer and two non-profit groups have teamed up on a proposal for 426 residential units in six new buildings along Bremen and Orleans Street, between Maverick and Porter streets. Read more.
A distressed citizen files a 311 complaint about the boarded-up monstrosity at Orleans and Porter streets, which was partially disassembled for a hotel that never got built, then boarded up by the new owners who say they'll be turning it into a hotel, but for reals this time: Read more.
The Davis Companies this week let the BPDA know it will soon file plans for roughly 451 apartments and 20 condos on land the East Boston Neighborhood Health Center now uses for parking along Orleans and Bremen streets on either side of Gove Street. Read more.
Investigating Orleans Street alley gunfire. Photo by Live Boston.
Live Boston reports somebody fired several shots in an alley behind 80 Orleans St., near Maverick Street, around 5 p.m. on Saturday. Nobody was hit.
Boston Police report arresting Thorus O’Brien, 18, of Brockton, on charges he fatally shot Duncan Ketter yesterday. Read more.
At Orleans and Marginal streets around 4:40 p.m., Chargemyline reports.
WCVB reports the victim, Duncan Ketter, may have been shot in a car, then dumped there. Ketter was 19.
In 2014, Ketter ran across Orange Line tracks at North Station to help save a man who'd fallen on the tracks.
A concerned citizen files a report about this guy on Orleans Street:
This guy feeds skunks/cats EVERY NIGHT just after dusk in the SAME SPOT. This needs to be addressed as there are skunks all over the neighborhood and he leaves food out that draws the animals near housing and people and dogs have gotten sprayed in the area. I know multiple people have complained to the city about this.
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