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But have they checked the sewers?

By adamg on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 2:53pm

Wicked Local Saugus reports an alligator might be on the loose in a Saugus pond. Or it might not. In any case, it's reassuring to know that a Massachusetts wildlife expert has "a reptile-sniffing dog" ready for just such emergencies.


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Are at-large candidates social-media adept?

By adamg on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 2:28pm

Mike Ball compiles some stats on the seven people running for four open at-large seats in this fall's at-large council race.


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Police charge two with gunfire on Savin Hill; say officers stopped them before they could flee on the subway

By adamg on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 12:49pm

Boston Police report arresting two men for firing guns on Auckland Street around 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

Responding officers found one of the suspects, Ashawda Nelson, 19, of Quincy, inside the Savin Hill Red Line stop, police say:

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 12:39
Neighborhoods: 
Dorchester
Topics: 
Crime
Free tagging: 
Guns


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Armed home invasion in Dorchester this morning

By adamg on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 11:24am

Boston Police tweet they are looking for three black males with guns for a home invasion this morning at 77 Spencer St.

Wed, 08/03/2011 - 09:00
Neighborhoods: 
Dorchester
Topics: 
Crime
Free tagging: 
Guns


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Citizen complaint of the day: 3 a.m. is no time for a blue-light special in the South End

By adamg on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 10:47am

Blue light of doom On the one hand, a bleary-eyed South Ender writes, it's a good thing the police (MBTA in this case, not BPD) have perched an all-seeing eyecam on Harrison between East Berkeley and Traveler: Maybe it'll scare away the crack dealers. On the other hand, however:

The tower has a blue flashing light that runs 24/7. It never stops and forces us to close our blinds so we can sleep. Keep the tower and lose the light at night please.


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Mother charged with punching infant son in the mouth on a T bus

By adamg on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 9:43am

RyanMBTA Transit Police report arresting a woman they say punched her infant son hard enough to make his mouth bleed on a 23 bus yesterday afternoon.

According to police, when fellow passengers on the bus "expressed their concern for the well being of the child," Erica Ryan, 25, told them to mind their own business.

Police say Ryan told responding officers that "I was trying to feed my baby on the crowded bus, then my hand slipped and I hit him in the mouth."

But fellow passengers told a different story:

Tue, 08/02/2011 - 15:32
Neighborhoods: 
Roxbury
Topics: 
The T
Crime
Free tagging: 
buses


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Groupon to JP: Car washes can help blind potential carjackers - like the one you had last week

By adamg on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 9:21am

A local Groupon subscriber forwards the offer he got today for a JP-based car wash:

A shiny car can blind potential carjackers just long enough to distract them while you steal their bikes. Fight crime with today's Groupon ...

Guess Groupon must follow the local news pretty closely.

Ed. disclosure: I have an affiliate deal with one of Groupon's competitors.


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MBTA forced to hire back Green Line driver who fell asleep on the job, tested positive for cocaine

By adamg on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 9:05am

The Herald reports on several "sacked MBTA punks" whom arbitrators ordered the T to hire back. In the case of the sleepy coke user - fired less than a month after a fatal trolley crash in Newton - the arbitrator found the drug test violated her privacy rights by ordering a drug test.


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Debt deal could hit local teaching hospitals

By adamg on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 8:57am

WBUR reports on possible effects of research cuts on teaching hospitals in Massachusetts, which bring in more federal science funds per capita than any other state - some $2.4 billion just from the National Institutes of Health last year.


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Man charged with 1989 South End murder

By adamg on Wed, 08/03/2011 - 8:31am

UPDATED Wednesday afternoon.

A former South End resident was ordered held without bail on charges he murdered an elderly woman in her Union Park apartment in November, 1989.

Charles Brook, 66, already in prison on unrelated charges, is charged with the sexual assault and strangulation of Zahia Salem, 87, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. The DA's office reports a DNA match led Boston Police cold-case investigators to Brook; they then compiled additional evidence against him.

The DNA evidence came from scrapings taken from under Salem's fingernails following what appeared to be a brutal struggle and from a cigarette butt found in a saucer - she did not smoke - the DA's office reports. They matched a sample Brook was required to supply following a 1991 conviction.

Boston Police report that Salem lived alone in the second floor of a three-story building she owned; a first-floor resident discovered her body several hours after her murder.

Early in 2011, the physical evidence recovered from the scene was submitted to the Boston Police Crime Lab and evaluated by the [Cold Case] Squad and the criminalist. As the criminalists continued to examine evidence, investigators doggedly sought out potential witnesses and conducted additional interviews.

Innocent, etc.


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