Chinatown

Boston Police report arresting two Bostonians and three Randolph residents in a donnybrook that just would not stop around 2 a.m. on Sunday at Club Venu, 100 Warrenton St..

Boston Police report somebody about to make a bank run from Centerfolds, 12 LaGrange St., was held up this evening. Police are looking for two men.

Boston Gastronauts reports on the head-cheese subs at Sub City on Beach Street in Chinatown:

All together the sandwich presented me with a unique flavor and texture combination. The amount of veggies on this thing was intense but adding that to the bologna-y jello-y texture of the headcheese and you've got something interesting going on in your mouth.

The Herald reports on the sale of Jacob Wirth on Stuart Street.

A Dorchester man was arraigned today on charges he repeatedly smashed a man with a high chair at Moon Villa Restaurant on Edinboro as another man was busy stabbing him, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Sean Sullivan captured Clancey by the Chinatown Banksy (on Essex Street).

Copyright Sean Sullivan. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.

Based on the name, one assumes CC Sign on Kneeland Street is not in the mohel business.

Stephen Walsh reports the intersections at Kneeland and Washington streets and Oak and Washington streets were shut around 11 a.m. when something white and foamy began spreading across them.

Boston Police say they reopened the intersections not long after when they discovered the foam was from an emergency crash drill being performed there, rather than the Orange Line developing a massive case of rabies.

Boston Police report police on routine patrol around 2:30 this morning spotted a man and a woman apparently arguing, shortly before the man began "pulling the female victim by the arm" at Kneeland and Tyler streets.

When they approached, the man got into a waiting car and was driven away.

Bao Tran, 19, of Everett, and Marzon Bugayong, 20, of Quincy, were stopped not long after and charged with attempted kidnapping and failing to stop for police.

Innocent, etc.

NorthEndWaterfront.com shows off some conceptions by a North End artist for large photo-realistic murals on some of the blander structures along the Greenway (such as the Chiofaro Memorial Parking Garage).

Boston Police tweet a black man in hospital scrubs tried but failed to rob the Cathay Bank at 621 Washington St. this afternoon. No word if Zach Braff was waiting outside.

The bank was also robbed on Sept. 16.

Kasper and MosbyPoints for creativity, if nothing else: Boston Police report arresting a couple of faux doxies for a pair of robberies on Charles Street and Tremont Street late last night. In the first case, the victim told police:

He was walking along Charles Street when he was approached by two women. The two women asked the victim if he would like to have a good time and he answered affirmatively. One of the two women then directed the victim to touch the other woman's breast and he heeded her instructions touching the other woman's breast. One the victim touched the other woman's breast he was then pushed against a wall and one of the women exclaimed, "You are under arrest, we are the police!" One of the suspects then reached into his pocket and removed both his wallet and cell phone and walked away.

Not long after, police say, officers on patrol in Chinatown noticed three women surrounding a man at LaGrange and Tremont, with one of them holding him by the neck:

Officers spoke to the male and he told officers that he was walking on LaGrange St. when he was approached by the same two females who had approached the victim from Charles Street and demanded to know what he was doing on the street. The victim then reported that before he could answer one of the suspects grabbed him by his shirt collar and took his wallet from his back pocket. One of the women after taking his wallet told him that they were cops and that he was going to jail. The woman holding him then told the other one to "call it in" and she started to motion as if she was waving someone to come to her aid.

Angela C. Kasper, 30 of Cary, NC and Kimberly Mosby, 43 of Boston, were arrested and charged with unarmed robbery and impersonating a police officer.

Innocent, etc.

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This video, posted here, shows some guys getting upset with somebody in a car on Tyler Street, so they jump on it and beat it, then chase it. Then the driver stops, gets out and goes berserk with a baseball bat. Almost as bad is the way the guy shooting the video is obviously having a grand ol' time. The video was posted yesterday; doesn't specify when this happened:

Boston Police report that officers already busy trying to tone down after-hours partiers outside 150 Kneeland St. this morning watched as two guys got into a fight in the middle of the road that ended with one carted off to Tufts Medical Center with multiple stab wounds.

Police say officers were on scene shortly after 3 a.m. due to issues with people blaring music out of their cars when they heard tires screech:

You learn something every day. Today we learn that some of the plantings along the Greenway are edible. Although one suspects the Greenway Conservancy would not take kindly to people making impromptu salads out of them.

The Globe reports the Greenway Conservancy spent $100,000 for a network of 15 access points that gets turned on tomorrow.

Senior Living Residences (SLR), a Boston-based assisted living company, has announced the opening of Compass on the Bay, a state-of-the-art free-standing Memory Support Assisted Living community located in Boston. This new community, formerly The BayView Assisted Living, is SLR’s flagship Alzheimer’s care community in which the company has fully implemented its “Compass Memory Support®” program- research-based treatment of the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease in the residential-style assisted living setting.
Compass on the Bay, located overlooking Carson Beach with views of the JFK Presidential Library, has just undergone a $3 million renovation which created new indoor and outdoor living spaces and a new front exterior. The community now offers a state-of-the-art living environment for seniors with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia.

The Greenway Blog educates us on the names of the flowers currently in bloom along the Greenway.

Spirakis and BumbacaBoston Police report an ongoing investigation of drug sales at 88 Kingston St. netted a couple of dealers yesterday evening.

Marino Spirakis, 35, of Peabody, was arrested on Rte. 1 in Revere after allegedly being spotted exchanging drugs for money with Jesse Bumbaca, 33, of Waltham, who was himself arrested off O'Brien Highway in Cambridge. Police tailed both men after they allegedly conducted their business around 7 p.m.

And the Glass Slipper on LaGrange Street agrees, telling the Boston Licensing Board this morning that it had no excuse for the way a stripper, clad only in a G string, was giving a customer a lap dance on May 9.

Boston Police Det. Kevin McGill uncovered the violation while conducting a routine inspection of the strip joint. He said he and Sgt. John Devaney went up to the third-floor lounge to find a number of patrons as well as female employees in "various stages of dress," which is fine. But then their attention was drawn to the near naked woman sitting in a patron's lap "making physical contact with the patron," which is a no-no under city regulations. McGill said a club manager immediately put an end to the up-close performance.

"There's no touching, there's no touching, just no touching," board Chairman Daniel Pokaski chided club managers this morning. Pokaski, who acknowledged the need for "an upscale, high-end gentleman's club in a major city," said he did not want to go back to the bad old days of the Combat Zone. "We don't need that," he said. "Train your staff."

Club managers agreed.

Boston Police tweet the Bank of America branch at 711 Washington St. was held up this afternoon by somebody who passed a note, but didn't show a gun.

The Boston Licensing Board today heard such differing accounts of what happened one January night at the Rumor nightclub that board Chairman Daniel Pokaski wondered at one point if both parties were talking about the same incident.

Incidents at two other Boston establishments will also force the board to consider what the hell actually happened.

Leonard Hall, of no particular address, was ordered held in lieu of $75,000 bail today at his arraignment on charges he tried to rape an employee at the Doubletree Hotel on Washington Street, the Suffolk County DA's office reports.

According to the DA's office, a maid was cleaning a bathroom in a fifth-floor guestroom around noon on May 9 when she head the room door shut. Assistant DA David Deakin, chief of Conley's Family Protection and Sexual Assault Bureau, provided this account:

Boston Police report arresting a Boston man on charges he tried to rape a woman in a hallway at the Doubletree Inn on Washington Street on May 9.

Hall was charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, indecent assault and battery and assault with intent to rape.

Innocent, etc.