A Hanover man was ordered held in lieu of $5,000 bail at his arraignment on charges he refused to stop calling Tufts Medical Center to threaten to blow the place up - and to scream racial epithets at whoever answered the phone, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Graham Abraham, 34, was charged with making a bomb threat with serious public alarm for a series of calls that started in January and with making a threat to commit a crime, assault and disorderly conduct for two specific incidents at the hospital, the DA's office says. A court clinician recommended mental-health services

According to the DA's office:

At about 1:30 p.m. on February 2, a Tufts Medical staff member reported to Tufts public safety officers that a former patient, later identified as Abraham, called the hospital and made racist remarks along with complaints regarding his experience. At about 2 p.m., another staff member took a call from Abraham and reported that Abraham said “everybody is going to die.”

Officers reviewed audio from the recorded phone line and heard Abraham make threats and racial slurs such as “All (expletive) in your shit vomit hospital must die. (Inaudible) ready to bomb and blow up your hospital. Got guns and knives kill all (expletive). All (expletive) must die. (Expletive) roaches and scum of the earth. All (expletive) must be slaughtered and killed.”

Abraham has made numerous calls to Tufts between January 15 to February 2, all with similar threats.

In addition to the calls to Tufts, "Amtrak received 78 calls from Abraham in January including disturbing statements and bomb threats" and ATF has placed Abraham on a list of people not allowed to buy a gun, the DA's office says.

In a statement, DA Kevin Hayden said the fact that Abraham kept making the calls even after Tufts tried to help him means it was time to charge him criminally "to prevent potential public harm,” Hayden said.

A transphobic Westfield woman faces sentencing May 28 for calling in a bomb threat to Children's Hospital in 2022.

Innocent, etc.

A bouncer at Game On in the Fenway lost his job after smacking one alleged jerk of a customer in the forehead with his flashlight, while a bouncer at Candibar in the Theater District was suspended for a week after punching a customer who made an particularly crude remark about his 11-year-old daughter.

The Boston Licensing Board heard testimony in both cases this morning and could decide Thursday whether either incident merits any sort of sanction.

The Game On incident at Game On on Lansdowne Street began around 12:35 a.m. on Oct. 8, when two patrons went downstairs to shoot some baskets in an arcade game there, only they got bored or something, climbed on the game, tossed all the basketballs out and began trying to make the hoop from across the floor. Bouncers determined it was time for them to go and escorted them out.

One of the ball tossers told police a bouncer pushed him as they got to the street, so he shoved the bouncer back, at which point the bouncer struck him a couple of times in the forehead with his flashlight, opening an inch-long gash that required stitches, police told the board, adding that whether the bouncer has to face assault-and-battery charges is now before a clerk magistrate in Roxbury Municipal Court.

A manager terminated the bouncer, who had worked at Game On for about six months, that night, one manager told the board, adding Game On has a strict no-hitting-patrons rule for its workers.

Around 11:55 p.m. on Jan. 27 at Candibar on Warrenton Street in the Theater District, a guy started giving a doorman trouble for daring to look over his passport, police and club owner Charles Delpidio told the board. The man, who was of Asian descent, accused the doorman of being anti-Asian, which the doorman objected to, telling the guy he had an Asian daughter.

"The comment that he made was terrible," Delpidio said. " 'I probably fucked your daughter.' Why would a man say something so crude to another man?"

The doorman punched the guy right in the nose. "He hit him, yes, he did," Delpidio acknowledge. "It was just that bad."

Candibar suspended the man for a week and Delpidio said that employees have been re-trained not to punch patrons, no matter how reprehensible they might be - and to immediately call 911 and let police handle any particularly reprehensible reprobates.

He continued that doorman is possibly the toughest job in the club business - you spend long hours in often bad weather, dealing with awful people. The particular doorman has worked for him for more than 20 years. "He has been with me for so long, I depend on him to do the right thing at the door and he has" - at least up until that moment - and that being a doorman is just one of the two jobs the man has to support his family, which includes, in addition to that one daughter, four other children.

Under questioning from Delpidio, Sgt. Det. William Gallagher, agreed that in his ten years in the BPD licensing unit, the man "has always treated us with respedct and dignity and made us feel welcome."

As in the Game On case, a clerk magistrate, in Boston Municipal Court, will determine whether the bouncer has to face a criminal charge, police told the board.

Boston Police and EMS responded to the Starbucks/Paper Store parking lot, 1810 Centre St. in West Roxbury on a report of a man in an SUV with an apparently self-inflected and fatal gunshot wound around 7:45 a.m.

Some forsythia in full bloom at that Arnold Arboretum, just up the hill from the Walter Street entrance.