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Police: Woman jumps behind wheel of cruiser at Logan, drives away
By adamg on Wed, 01/07/2015 - 10:53pm
A woman disobeyed a court order to stay away from Logan Airport early this morning, hopped into a State Police cruiser left idling at Terminal A and managed to drive it all the way to the Orient Heights T stop before troopers caught up with her, State Police say.
State Police have launched an internal investigation to figure out how a woman who'd been apparently passed out in the terminal only minutes before was able to drive away with one of their cars.
According to State Police, troopers found Danielle McDonough, 29, apparently passed out inside the terminal around 2:30 a.m. They managed to wake her and escorted her outside, where she said she'd wait for a Silver Line bus:
Within two minutes troopers determined a cruiser was missing. The cruiser was assigned to one of the troopers who responded to the report of Ms. McDonough passed out on the floor near a baggage carousel on the first floor of Terminal A.
Troopers began searching for the stolen cruiser. A trooper noticed it being operated on Service Road and activated his lights and siren in an attempt to stop the suspect. Ms. McDonough refused to stop and continued to drive onto Bennington Street and then onto Saratoga Street, running red lights in the process. The suspect eventually turned into a parking lot at the Orient Heights MBTA station. When a pursuing trooper exited his cruiser, she backed up in his direction, causing him to move quickly out of the way. The trooper instructed her to put the stolen cruiser in park and exit it, which she eventually did.
She was charged with receiving a stolen motor vehicle, failure to stop for police, trespassing, assault with a dangerous weapon; resisting arrest, operating with a suspended license, speeding and running a red light.
Judges had ordered her to stay out of Logan in 2012 and 2014, State Police say.
Innocent, etc.
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Receiving A Stolen Motor Vehicle?!!
As opposed to actually stealing it?
This charge is baffling to me.
Its the same criminal statute
Its the same criminal statute as stealing a vehicle, I'm sure its more of a technicality, as its easier to charge her with receiving because cops were able to stop her while she was in the stolen vehicle, whereas no officer actually saw her steal the car.
https://malegislature.gov/laws/generallaws/partiv/titlei/chapter266/sect...
Why was she not charged with
Why was she not charged with "borrowing" the vehicle?
Mr. BPD did the same thing or did he just carjack the "S@#k?
How about "unauthorized use
How about "unauthorized use of a motor vehicle"? Or is that only for drunken Boston cops?
Boston Police v State Police
I think the State Police will make a stronger case for theft of a vehicle. LOL. I can't wait to hear the charges for sleeping beauty.
Also, why would they believe at 2:30am the Silver Line was still in service? By the time she pulled herself together it was probably closer to 3 am.
I wonder if she intended to
I wonder if she intended to "permanantly deprive" the state of their police car? Ya know like she was taking it to a chop shop or something....or whatever the excuse was to not charge the good officer in Southie with Auto Theft. I don't know if unarmed carjacking is even a thing in this state.
Guess they shouldn't have
Guess they shouldn't have left their car idling
2:30 AM, and they wanted her
2:30 AM, and they wanted her to wait for the silver line bus? Which doesn't start until 5:30. So they wanted her to wait 3 hours in the single digit temps we had.
Doesn't take a genius to know that wouldn't work out.
and unlocked?
at the airport
F Troop
How many police agencies deal with homeless passed out females by shipping them off to the MBTA instead of getting them medical care?
Simple answer: ALL of them
Simple answer: ALL of them
Maybe they should have been tipped off
...by the fact that the Silver Line doesn't run at 2:30 AM on a Wednesday?
Some comeuppance
For the MSP cops assigned to Logan, who I don't find to be the most helpful and courteous Troopers …
Cop bashing bait article.
Cop bashing bait article.
Never realized the cops were masochists
I never would have known about this if the Massachusetts State Police hadn't issued a press release.
don't need any more articles to bash cops
They do it themselves, ever read their racist, homophobic, right wing newspaper, Pax Centurion, where they dole out their hate for all to see. The christmas issue has a little poem on pg 11 where they insult Mexicans, the president, government employees (of course they are the exception) the poor, Muslims, etc. Cops are happy to cash their taxpayer paid for checks but has a huge disdain for us. They have so much in common with ISIS (hate Obama, hate religious minorities, homophobic, violent, racist). They are a disgrace and should have to get real jobs in the private sector, but of course they cant stop living off us.
https://www.bppa.org/pax/PAX%202014%20NovDec.pdf
The newspaper put out by the
The newspaper put out by some members of the union is NOT representative of the police department or officers themselves. For Chrissakes how many times does this need to be said?
Aren't the union officers elected by the union members?
And don't the union officers publish that newspaper?
You do realize that officers
You do realize that officers are FORCED to join the union as a condition of employment and have little control over the union leadership due to reprisals to any challenge? The public safety unions don't have to represent the membership when the membership has no choice in their membership. They get their dues no matter what and can ruin the life of any "represented" employee should said employee ask what's being done for/to them beyond extortion.
If there was no membership as a condition of employment or competing public safety unions (more like the building trades) this would be a different animal.
They have so much in common
They have so much in common with ISIS? Really? Let me ask you, have you ever had to call for help? I have and was treated with professionalisim and care and was more than grateful for their assistance.
Are there bad apples? Sure, tell me which profession has none, I'd really like to know.
I hope you never need to call 911 for ISIS help.
Pax Centurion is from the
Pax Centurion is from the Boston Police union, not the State Police.
Maybe if the state police at
Maybe if the state police at Logan did their job they would be more awake to prevent drunks from stealing their cars. Every time I go to Logan on the T cars are lined up blocking all the bus stops waiting to pick someone up. Even when a cop car is idling a few cars lengths away nothing is ever done. They are useless.
Picking someone up at Logan
in a car sucks.
Yes, I know they have the cell phone lot, but the staties can still unreasonable when you have to stop for a minute to pick someone up and let them walk over to you.
I've picked up people at Logan many times, and I would say they do a good job of shoving cars along.
I've picked/dropped people
I've picked/dropped people off at least 5 times this year and every single time there was a state car sitting there with its lights flashing with the cop either nowhere to be seen or chatting nearby.
I think my waiting record is 1.5hrs in terminal E pick up area, after which my in-laws finally showed up.
It seems like the days of the cops shooing people away are gone.
Depends on the terminal
E is huge and has large, but fewer, flights into it.
C has lots of smaller, frequent, domestic flights and a MUCH smaller pickup area.
As a result, C is almost always moved along while they are more lax on E where people aren't getting in each others' ways or backing up traffic back out onto the loop road.
I've found that E is the only terminal
where Dobbs and Vanderbilt don't hassle drivers who are there to drop off or pick up people.
B is hit or miss
I've had no problems at B sometimes. Other times, they're pacing and immediately waving.
I haven't needed to go to A too often to know how bad it is there.
Haven't been to A for years
but every time I go to B, it seems they're always pacing and immediately waving. Then again, these days I don't have to drive to Logan to pick up or drop off folks nearly as much as I used to do, so it just may be the times I do go there now.
For the record, once I got my driver's license, it became my job to be Logan chauffer for other family members whey they would come home for the holidays. With three sisters and four brothers, all of whom lived in different parts of the country, I figure I've made approximately 1,600 trips to Logan between 1978 and 2000. So I've had more than one run in with an over-eager F Trooper
A is better after the rebuild
There seems to be quite enough space to drop off and pick up, at least when I've caught flights through Alaska Air to the west coast. It is also very convenient to the Cell Phone Lot.
B gets jammed up very quickly and the loop configuration makes them push people along.
C can get bad, but at least they have a separate island for pickup now. That has been quite useful. I have had to circle out of there and back, though.
I usually just get dropped off at E. We usually park to pick up because of the variable wait for customs - and the desire for group hugs when someone has been gone for a long trip.
So sad to say but when a law
So sad to say but when a law enforcer break the rules, the outcome are always different from a citizen. They always got extra extra light hands at court
State Police chases away drivers waiting for arrivals
Just sit in the cellphone lot. Hope to catch your arrival standing on the 3rd island from the door at Terminal C. [¿Which island does Uber use? Same as the general public?]
Staties chase people away. Seeing the arrivals in the terminal is not good enough. They have to be on the platform or drive around again until they are.
MA Handicap Placards are not valid at Logan Massport parking meters.
I escaped to Canada during the 2004 Democratic Convention. I'll have to be away again if Boston prevails, as Chicago didn't in what became London 2012.
Good to know I am being kept safe while state vehicles are driven away.
Or law enforcement is patting themselves on the back for not making Swiss Cheese of MIT student, Star Simpson.
[She's extremely lucky she followed the instructions or deadly force would have been used," Pare told The Associated Press. "And she's lucky to be in a cell as opposed to the morgue."]
Where are there parking
Where are there parking meters at Logan? I don't think I've seen any since they closed the metered lot in the old Terminal A after 9/11.
A short-term parking tip: the first 30 minutes are $3. But if you time it right, you can extend that for almost another 30 minutes, since that's how much time you get to leave the garage after you pay on foot in the terminal.