Chinatown
Amazing Kreskin amazed anybody buying the story about the hypnotized Chinatown woman
By adamg - 5/12/12 - 8:53 pmThe Phoenix talks to the showman about the woman who told police she was hypnotized into handing over $160,000 in cash to some scammers.
Police ID club where Stephen Perez's killers may have chilled before the murder
By adamg - 5/7/12 - 5:17 pmBoston Police report the four men spotted running out of a parking garage around the time Stephen Perez was murdered may have been at a birthday party at Caprice/Underbar, 275 Tremont St. earlier in the evening.
Police are looking for the four men, possibly from Lynn, in connection with the death of Perez, an Army veteran, early on April 28. Police have asked anybody who may have taken video or photos around 2 a.m. in the area of Tremont and Stuart to contact them.
Lynn men may have something to do with vet's murder in the Theater District
By adamg - 5/4/12 - 6:35 pmBoston Police report they are looking for the four men shown rapidly exiting a Theater District parking garage around the time Stephen Perez was fatally shot on Tremont Street.
Investigators believe these individuals may have a connection to Lynn, MA.
Police are also asking anybody who might have been in the area around 2 a.m. on Sunday and who might have had their phone cameras running to forward copies of their photos or video to them.
Hypnotic scammers targeting elderly Chinatown residents score big
By adamg - 5/4/12 - 1:02 pmBoston Police report scammers made off with $160,000 last month from an elderly resident who thinks they hypnotized her first.
Tremont Street murder victim was serviceman just back from Afghanistan
By adamg - 4/29/12 - 2:20 pm
Friends identified the victim as Stephen Perez of Revere, whom the Globe reports had just returned from Afghanistan and who wanted to join the Revere Police Department.
The 2007 graduate of Revere High School was a sniper in the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division in Cop Charkh, Afghanistan.
Police report no arrests for his death, which happened around 2 a.m., Saturday.
Man found shot to death in Theater District
By adamg - 4/28/12 - 3:20 pmBoston Police report finding a 22-year-old man with a gunshot wound on Tremont Street, midway between Stuart and Oak, around 2 a.m. He was taken around the corner to Tufts Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
Chinatown businesses raided in EBT fraud investigation
By adamg - 4/20/12 - 5:28 amThe Globe reports five stores in Chinatown were raided yesterday as part of a state investigation into alleged abuses of the cards, given to poor people to buy food. The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports four people will be arraigned today after their arrests as part of the raids.
Violence erupts again in Tufts Medical Center garage; two charged with stabbing, beating
By adamg - 4/14/12 - 2:54 pmBoston Police report a man was found beaten and stabbed around 2:40 a.m. today in a stairwell at the garage at 274 Tremont St.
The victim was taken to the medical center for treatment of what police say was non-life-threatening injuries.
Javier Fernandez, 35, of Dorchester, was charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, a knife. Jose Lugo, 31, of Hyde Park, was charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. Police say security personnel from the medical center and a nearby club helped find and arrest the two.
On March 26, three men were charged with beating and attempting to kidnap a man in the garage.
Innocent, etc.
Woman pounds the pavement in Chinatown
By adamg - 4/11/12 - 4:13 pmMaggie O'Neil filed this report:
Woman in Chinatown trying to open a coconut on the cement on the corner of Essex and Harrison this morning.
Orange Line service to Forest Hills shut by trash fire near Chinatown station
By adamg - 3/31/12 - 1:54 pmA trash fire on the tracks just before Chinatown outbound around 1:40 p.m. shut service to Forest Hills. MBTA workers extinguished the fire themselves, but Boston firefighters went into the tunnel to take a look.
The last major trash fire near the Chinatown stop was almost exactly a year ago.
