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New alternative for people who've already done the Sam Adams tour

By adamg on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 2:50pm

Adam Castiglioni reports Legal Seafood will offer tours of its fish processing and testing plant on the South Boston waterfront every Thursday morning June through August for $7 (proceeds go to the Boston Harbor Assocation). No sandals or flip-flops allowed.


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Afternoon stabbing in Ashmont

By adamg on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 1:30pm

Boston Police are looking for a gray Honda in connection with a stabbing around 1 p.m. at Ashmont St. and Dorchester Avenue. The victim was reportedly stabbed in the back but his injury did not appear to be life threatening.

Thu, 05/12/2011 - 13:00
Neighborhoods: 
Dorchester
Topics: 
Crime
Free tagging: 
Ashmont
Knives


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Court: Judges can't let sleeping jurors lie

By adamg on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 12:55pm

A Cambridge man will get a new larceny trial because one of the jurors who heard his case may have been snoozing in the jury box.

Felton Dyous had been convicted of using another man's bank card to withdraw $200 from a Central Square ATM when the man mistakenly left it in the machine. Dyous appealed, in part because one of the jurors may have been falling asleep during his short trial - only two witnesses were called.

The Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled the judge in the case erred by not holding a hearing to determine whether the the juror was, in fact, cat napping. Ironically, it was the prosecutor who brought the apparent sleepyhead to the judge's attention.

Here, there was an ample basis for believing that one of the jurors was asleep during the trial. ... Based on the record before us, we are left with serious doubts that the juror was attentive throughout the trial. Because there was no voir dire hearing and there were no findings establishing that the juror had been attentive and was capable of rendering a verdict based on all of the evidence, the defendant is entitled to the benefit of the doubt as to the juror's attentiveness and is therefore entitled to a new trial.


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Alleged accomplice to Dorchester murderer now charged as killer himself

By adamg on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 12:34pm

Adam Simkins, initially charged as only helping the alleged killer of Cordell McAfee last May, was arraigned today as a joint killer after forensics evidence and witnesses pegged him as firing at McAfee alongside Lavonrence Perkins, who had been charged with murder last year.

The two were both ordered held without bail today at their arraignments on charges they walked up to McAfee on May 7 and opened fire.

Although McAfee was no stranger to violence - he avoided a murder charge by agreeing to testify against fellow gang members for the death of Trina Persad in 2002 - prosecutors say he was murdered while sitting on a porch with a relative at Dorchester Avenue and Roseland Street.

"Thanks to the Suffolk prosecutors and Boston Police detectives who worked this case day and night, Cordell's family is a little closer to justice," Suffolk County District Attorney Dan Conley said.

According to prosecutors, investigators found Simkins's fingerprints on tin foil in which the apparent murder weapons were used and his DNA on one of the sweatshirts police say McAfee's killers wore.

Innocent, etc.


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DA seeks to shut off archives of Quincy court Webcasts

By adamg on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 12:21pm

Dan Kennedy reports on a motion by Norfolk County DA Michael Morrissey to keep OpenCourt from archiving its Webcasts.

Morrissey says archives of court proceedings on the new pilot system in Quincy District Court, could prove a boon to gang members and others with evil intent. OpenCourt notes it spent several months before going live working with Quincy court officials and the DA's office, but has agreed to stop letting people look up past Webcasts at least for the next week or so.


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Pepper-spray release sends 20 Brighton students to the hospital

By adamg on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 11:47am

The Boston Fire Department reports somebody set off a can of pepper spray on the second floor of the Another Course to College school in the former Taft school, 20 Warren St., shortly after 10 a.m. A total of 20 students were brought to local hospitals for evaluation.


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Police: Students beat, robbed, threatened classmate from Ruggles to Cambridge

By adamg on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 11:03am

A 14-year-old student who was punched, robbed and warned not to snitch by two classmates at the Ruggles stop on the Orange Line around 2 p.m. yesterday thought he'd managed to escape them by making his way to the Cambridgeside Galleria.

But, he told police, the two - and an older guy - were waiting for him when he left the mall around 5:40 p.m. and they jumped him again, stole his cell phone and threatened to "drop him" in class if he told anyone what had happened.

Wed, 05/11/2011 - 14:00
Neighborhoods: 
Roxbury
Topics: 
The T
Free tagging: 
Green Line
buses
Ruggles
Cambridgeside Galleria
Orange Line


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The hats of the Red Line

By adamg on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 9:07am

In a pinch, a USPS envelope will do.


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DA: Man strikes out trying to sell Dustin Pedroia's stolen cleats, other Sox equipment online

By adamg on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 8:40am

A South Weymouth man faces charges in two states for allegedly trying to sell stolen Fenway equipment - and Dustin Pedroia's cleats - on a sports-memorabilia auction site.

Jamie Pritchard-Holland, 32, is charged in Boston Municipal Court with two counts of receiving stolen property, specifically, a 380-foot marker from center field, a home plate from the visitor's bullpen, the cleats and Kevin Youkilis's glove, all stolen in April 2010, our Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Pritchard-Holland faces separate charges in New York's Suffolk County, where he was arrested on May 5. The auction site is based there.

Innocent, etc.


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'A single late train causing delays to cascade through the entire peak period'

By adamg on Thu, 05/12/2011 - 8:27am

Yes, that pretty much sums up what happened on commuter rail out of South Station last night: a train died at a critical track junction. But it's also a phrase from a report written in 1999 about capacity problems at South Station.

The MBTA says it hopes to ease some of those issues by expanding into space now occupied by the Fort Point Channel post office - and by running some Worcester Line trains through Cambridge to North Station; the report link will take you to a Sierra Club statement on the need for a rail link between North and South stations that references the 1999 consultant's report.


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