One alleged Heath Street gang member living with another alleged member of the gang was formally charged Friday for the drugs an ATF agent says investigators found in his room last month during a search originally aimed at the other guy as part of a sweep of some 40 alleged Heath Street members. Read more.
Surveillance photos of suspects via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for five people they say were involved in the armed holdup of a person in a Roxbury Community College parking lot at Columbus Avenue and Cedar Street taking both his phone and a silver Mercedes E-class SUV. Read more.
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports the two bodies found yesterday in a room on the 13th floor of the Moxy Hotel, 240 Tremont St., were those of a man, 43, and a woman, 24.
Both victims sustained bullet wounds. A firearm was recovered at the scene. The incident remains under investigation by Boston police and the Suffolk DA’s office.
WCVB reports on two bodies found on the 13th floor of the Moxy Hotel, 240 Tremont St. shortly after noon.
An East Boston man faces a variety of gun charges for the two guns, one loaded with 31 bullets and a laser attachment, he had stowed in his sweatshirt and sweatpants, that state troopers found when they pulled him over for bombing past a stop sign while making a left turn in East Boston Monday afternoon, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Agents from a variety of federal law-enforcement agencies and Boston Police today swept up more than 40 alleged members of the Heath Street gang, based at the Mildred Hailey apartments in Jamaica Plain, on charges that range from drug dealing and being a felon in possession of a firearm to committing RICO violations.
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Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old for last Wednesday's gunpoint holdup of a Domino's delivery person on Fairmount Hill n Hyde Park. Read more.
Photos of suspects via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for two teenagers they say held up a Domino's delivery driver outside 21 Woodglen Road in Hyde Park around 1:40 p.m. on Wednesday.
A judge has ruled that two men facing charges they helped ferry two dozens guns from Alabama to Boston will have to stand trial, rejecting their requests to dismiss their indictments on Second Amendment grounds.Read more.
A man on probation following a ten-year stay in federal prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm will have to face a new federal trial for the same offense because of the loaded gun Boston Police say the took out of his sweatpants in Grove Hall in 2022, a judge has ruled. Read more.
A federal appeals court in Boston yesterday re-opened a lawsuit by the Mexican government against American gun makers and a Boston-area gun wholesaler alleging the companies are deliberately encouraging the flow of deadly assault weapons south of the Rio Grande. Read more.
Boston Police report officers investigating a report of gunfire at Warren Street and Blue Hill Avenue around 2:45 a.m. quickly spotted and stopped a man leaving the scene and "visibly out of breath." Read more.
The Sportsman's Warehouse page for one of the guns Brunson allegedly bought at its Columbia, SC store.
Two men, one from South Carolina, one from Roxbury, face federal charges for the way they allegedly shipped guns here - for resale to, among others, gang members and teenagers - the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.
A house on Pinedale Road, off Canterbury Street in Roslindale, was hit by at least four bullets, one of which wound up inside, around 6:45 this morning. WCVB reports no injuries. Police found five shell casings across the street.
Boston Police report they are looking for a man who tried lifting a couple of bottles from Quality Mart, 21 Massachusetts Ave., got chased out by a clerk and then, before he made his way towards Kenmore Square, flashed what appeared to be a gun at the employee, around 12:30 p.m. on Thursday. Read more.
A federal judge today dismissed a lawsuit by a now former radiologist over the state's gun laws, saying the Supreme Court still gives states the rights to regulate guns and besides, he really needs to first finish his appeal in state court on his convictions for illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition. Read more.
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