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By adamg on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 11:48am

Boston Police report they had some help arresting a Mattapan man for breaking and entering at a Back Bay apartment - from the tenant, who police say watched the guy ransack her Comm. Ave. apartment via a camera she had running.

Officers enroute were informed the resident of the apartment was watching the suspect inside her apartment via a live camera and giving a police dispatcher play by play actions of the suspect inside her home. The victim described the suspect as a black or Hispanic male, wearing a black knit hat, black scarf on his face, black jacket, blue jeans and holding a black & gray backpack, which he was placing her personal items including her Kindle into. As officers approached the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue & Fairfield Street they observed a male matching the victim’s description walking in a hurried manner. Officers exited their marked cruiser and followed the suspect on foot. Officers called out to the suspect to stop but he ignored the officer commands and continued walking in a hurried manner. Officers quickly caught up to male outside the Hynes Convention Center. After a brief encounter and a search of the suspect’s backpack, officers recovered the victim’s Kindle, a pry bar and a screwdriver.

Allen Bolden, 32, of Mattapan was charged with breaking and entering, possession of burglarious tools and receiving stolen property.

Innocent, etc.

Neighborhoods: 
Back Bay
Topics: 
Crime
Free tagging: 
Commonwealth Avenue


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By anon on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 11:56am.

He's back.

http://www.universalhub.com/2014/pair-homeless-guys-charged-cambridge-ho...

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By booger on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:44pm.

he was CAUGHT less than 5 month ago, i wonder how many B&E's he got away with in that span. Lockup this loser already!

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By Gary C on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 1:41pm.

Can we please put this guy behind bars for a long time?

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By anon on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 11:59am.

The tenant helped the burglar break in?

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By mikka on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:08pm.

Perhaps the tenant really DID help the man break in. Extreme Reality TV.

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By SwirlyGrrl on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 1:49pm.

I'm trying to figure out how it could be differently worded and still make sense.

Maybe "With the help of the tenant, police arrested ..."

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By adamg on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 2:09pm.

I think.

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By Michael Kerpan on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 2:10pm.

... better.

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By anon on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 1:17pm.

Same here, on first reading I thought it meant a tenant in the building helped the burglar break into the place...

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By Gary C on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 11:59am.

Sad that it's necessary, but how awesome to nab the guy!

Watching someone ransack your house on live video has got to be an emotional experience. I'd be yelling and swearing at the screen....

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By Andrew8-8000 on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:11pm.

lol

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By anon on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 1:19pm.

That's the actual legal term, from MGL c. 266, § 49.

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By perruptor on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 1:23pm.

Mass General Laws Chapter 266, section 49 Burglarious instruments; making; possession; use

Whoever makes or mends, or begins to make or mend, or knowingly has in his possession, an engine, machine, tool or implement adapted and designed for cutting through, forcing or breaking open a building, room, vault, safe or other depository, in order to steal therefrom money or other property, or to commit any other crime, knowing the same to be adapted and designed for the purpose aforesaid, with intent to use or employ or allow the same to be used or employed for such purpose, or whoever knowingly has in his possession a master key designed to fit more than one motor vehicle, with intent to use or employ the same to steal a motor vehicle or other property therefrom, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for not more than ten years or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars and imprisonment in jail for not more than two and one half years.

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By booger on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 12:22pm.

She wasn't home. The POS is a sex offender......

http://www.homefacts.com/offender-detail/MA104936/Allen-Bolden.html

This clown is also on public assistance, we shouldn't be supporting criminal rapist.

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By anon on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 2:44pm.

Or maybe the POS is lucky she wasn't home. This woman's smart and has a camera at her home. Who's to say she doesn't have a Mossberg in the closet as well.

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By Scumquistador on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 5:13pm.

You will find that a great many rapists these days are criminals

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By perruptor on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 7:27pm.

but there does seem to be a definite correlation.

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By kernelPanic on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 4:19pm.

The cost of running these sorts of camera systems has dropped like a rock. DropCam Pro is probably still the overall winner for basic simplicity although you have to pay a monthly cloud storage fee if you wanna be able to go back and review non-live footage

There are super cheap moving pan/tilt Foscam cameras on Amazon for like $60 bucks that will send email alerts containing pictures or video whenever motion is detected. There are free android/ios apps for watching the stream remotely as well. The crappy thing about foscam is that sun and cloud movement will trip the motion detection so you get a lot of false positives. May still be worth it because you don't need a monthly fee.

Software like sighthound.com can work with just about any network camera and has really excellent "human being" detection algorithms that reduce the false positives even with cheap cameras. Requires a running computer at home though. I'm using it with some foscam units just to monitor a storage area.

Have much higher end cameras on the outside of the house but even those still can't do motion detection worth a damn. Weather, leaves and clouds all trigger the motion alert. Ended up turning off all the alerts and just recording everything 24x7. I won't ever get an alert but at least I'll have nice HD footage of the person molesting my houseplants or whatever

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By anon on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 5:51pm.

The text of the post appears to repeat four times:

Boston Police report they had some help arresting a Mattapan man for breaking and entering at a Back Bay apartment - from the tenant, who police say watched the guy ransack her Comm. Ave. apartment via a camera she had running Boston Police report they had some help arresting a Mattapan man for breaking and entering at a Back Bay apartment - from the tenant, who police say watched the guy ransack her Comm. Ave. apartment via a camera she had running...

(Emphasis added.)

Copy/paste error, perhaps?

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By adamg on Fri, 12/12/2014 - 6:45pm.

To try to make major edits on my phone. Yeesh! Fixed now, really, I think.

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