Ah, September on Mission Hill, and you know what that means
By adamg - 9/14/08 - 1:00 pm
Right: It's party time! Boston Police report busting up what seemed to be quite a lively soiree at 129 St. Alphonsus St. shortly after 2 this morning. After making their way past an apparently inebriated minor on the stairs, they gained entrance to a third floor apartment, from which several occupants promptly bade farewell, and then:
Officers surveyed the apartment, and observed numerous empty beer bottles, and smelled a strong odor of burnt marijuana. As officers continued to look through the apartment for other intoxicated underage, they observed a quantity of loose green vegetable matter believed to be marijuana on a on a living room table.
The three actual tenants of the apartment, 21, 19 and 19, were then arrested on a variety of charges, including possession of marijuana, being keepers of a disorderly house, procuring alcohol for a minor and being a minor in possession of alcoholic beverages.
Innocent, etc.
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Allston, too
By Allstonian - 9/14/08 - 4:54 pm
They're back in Allston, too, and this year seems to be worse than it's been in a few seasons - we're back to large gangs roaming the streets in search of "fun." Friday night, coming home around 10 from an evening out, we passed several groups totaling at least 50 kids.
That night a neighbor's fenced and LOCKED garden was vandalized, and his four biggest winter melons were stolen and smashed in the street. Last night I called 911 repeatedly for a party that was already loud enough to drown out our own television by 9:30; by 11 it had spilled into the back yard and by midnight it was in the street out front as well. Police never responded in spite of several calls. It's absolutely maddening.
But, we should all be relieved
By JimboJones - 9/14/08 - 6:58 pm
It sounds as if it was a tough night in Allston & on Mission Hill.
I'm relieved to know, though, that at least the college kids were heading home from the parties to sleep in peace, in apartments where only four students can live.
What a difference the new city regulation has made!
It IS maddening
By bumptoe - 9/14/08 - 7:09 pm
I don't know if you were calling from a cell or land line, but if it's a cell you have, next time call 617-343-4911 (this is from the Boston Crime Watch site), otherwise calls go straight to the State Police. What might also be helpful is calling the Community Service officer's desk for follow-up, especially since they never came. D-14: 617-343-4376.
It also helps if you know who the property owner is, and what schools the tenants go to so they can follow-up with the property owner and the schools.
Thanks
By Allstonian - 9/17/08 - 3:59 pm
Thanks for the reminder about calling the Community Service desk - I did just that, and the officer who returned my call was very helpful.
I am a bit mystified, though - he did some research and called me back to say that the logs showed that officers visited two houses on my street at around 11:15 in response to calls. But I was never aware of police or noticed a squad car, and the noise next door went on outdoors until my husband went out at 1am to tell them to move indoors and quiet down - I know this because we watched all of Saturday Night Live, since the noise in the street was keeping me up.
We had another incident a while back where we called about a loud party (we have to do that a lot) and officers called back to say that they were outside the house, and instructed my husband to come out and speak to them, but there was no car anywhere. I almost wonder whether they are responding to a different address.
Mercaptan
By SwirlyGrrl - 9/14/08 - 8:08 pm
Gee officer, I don't know why they think I had anything to do with it - it was such a wild party that I guess one of the drugged out crazies must have grabbed a skunk and threw it in there as a prank!