Charlestown
Police bust up alleged after-hours druggie sex den in Charlestown
By adamg - 5/24/12 - 11:39 pmBoston Police report arresting five people "in various levels and forms of undress" on drug charges at a Sullivan Square home early this morning. A sixth person was arrested on a warrant for motor-vehicle violations.
Police say 87 Cambridge St. had become a place where those in the know could buy drugs and partake of "sexually-themed instruments and costumes."
Charlestown man charged with drive-by punching in the North End
By adamg - 5/22/12 - 7:31 amNorthEndWaterfront.com reports police nabbed a suspect for last week's attack on Salem Street, in which a guy got out of a car, punched a woman and took her purse. He's also a suspect in a similar attack in Charlestown and his wife did the driving.
You can't just show up at mom's on Mother's Day without some flowers, even if you have just carjacked a cab
By adamg - 5/14/12 - 11:56 am
Hickey (l), CunneenBoston Police report arresting a couple of alleged sad sacks for carjacking a cab in City Square last night.
Police say one of the men jumped behind the wheel but managed to get only a short distance down Devens Street before colliding with two parked cars. The other man, police say, then ran up to the cab because in all the commotion, he'd forgotten to grab a "floral arrangement consisting of orange, yellow and red flowers" he'd brought with him.
Police say the two men, one wearing a Bruins T-shirt, the other a Celtics T, decided around 6 p.m. that rather than paying their fare, they'd hold up the cab driver.
Bank robbers run on Dunkin'
By adamg - 5/11/12 - 2:56 pmMedford Patch reports a man suspected for at least two bank robberies, one in Charlestown, was arrested after a teller recognized him as they stood in line at a Medford Dunkin' Donuts a couple of days after he'd allegedly handed her a note demanding money.
Woman jumps off upper level of the Tobin at rush hour
By adamg - 5/8/12 - 6:10 pmShe was, however, still breathing when State Police pulled her out of the Mystic by the Little Mystic on the Charlestown side shortly before 6 p.m.
UPDATE: State Police report the woman died about an hour later at Mass. General. They identified her only as a 36-year-old Rhode Island resident who got out of her car on the upper level.
Sovereign branch in Charlestown held up
By adamg - 5/8/12 - 10:06 amBoston Police are looking for a white guy in a gray van for a holdup this morning at the Sovereign Bank branch at 437 Rutherford Ave.
The man, about 5'7" and in his 30s, has a scar on his face and was wearing a white hoodie with writing on the front and a black ball cap. He was last spotted in a 2004 Ford van, Mass. registration 889 0CF (UPDATE: Van found in Charlestown, abandoned).
Mystery: What was the retired Teamster from Charlestown doing with a backpack filled with $180,000 in cash when he died?
By adamg - 5/3/12 - 10:06 amAssociated Press looks into the circumstances of last August's death of William P. Coyman, who collapsed on a platform at New York's Penn Station. The government is now trying to win control of the money.
Gasp: Olives appears to actually be open again
By adamg - 4/27/12 - 6:15 pmA roving UHub photographer snapped this shot this evening and reports Todd English's long shuttered City Square eatery appears to be open for business this evening, even if only of the soft-opening kind.
Man wanted for Orange Line indecent assault
By adamg - 4/24/12 - 9:19 pm
MBTA Transit Police report they are looking for a man who attacked a woman on an Orange Line train somewhere between Downtown Crossing and Malden on the afternoon of March 30.
Police say he sat down next to the woman, began talking to her and then indecently assaulted her. He may have been drunk at the time.
Police describe him as black, between 20 and 25 and 5'7" or 5'8".
93 South shut by clay
By adamg - 4/19/12 - 8:00 amA tractor trailer carrying a full load of clay rolled over around 5:30 a.m. on the lower Deck just before the Zakim Bridge, spilling its load, fuel and oil and shutting the road, State Police report. The driver was taken to Mass. General with minor injuries.
