Crack, guns seized in, you are sitting down, West Roxbury
By adamg - 3/27/09 - 5:13 pm
Boston Police report arresting an Edgemere Road resident and seizing 100 grams of crack cocaine, three illegal guns and ammunition.
Prior to executing the search warrant, officers were on a surveillance post in the area of 130 Edgemere Rd apt. #10 and observed the target of the search warrant, Joseph Brown doing push ups at the living room window-sill and other person(s) walking around the apartment. Officers, armed with a no knock search warrant, breached the secondary door to apartment # 10 of 130 Edgemere Rd and first encountered a black female that officers recognized as the second person listed in the search warrant. Officers continued to the rear of the apartment where they encountered a black male that officers recognized as Joseph Brown that was attempting to flee out the back balcony.
Police specified the weapons and ammo:
A Sig Sauer 40 cal semi-auto with two high capacity magazines, a Glock model 22, 40 cal semi-auto with 3 magazines, a 25 cal two-shot derringer, numerous rounds of assorted ammo, a 9mm extended magazine capable of holding 30 to 40 rounds.
Brown, 32, was charged with trafficking crack cocaine in excess of 100 grams, 3 counts of unlawful possession of a firearm, three counts of unlawful possession of ammunition, receiving stolen property over $250.00, six counts of unlawful possession of a large capacity feeding device, six counts of improper storage of a firearm and second and subsequent offense for possession with intent class B drug. They say the woman will be summonsed into court on similar charges.
Innocent, etc.
Comments
No surprise - that's the
By NotWhitey - 3/27/09 - 11:24 pm
No surprise - that's the edge of the Georgetown housing development. Years ago, they started taking Section Whateveritis housing vouchers, and all the nice Jewish ladies moved out. Now it's mostly single moms and elderly. Someone was shot up there 4-5 years ago.
It's not W.R. proper, it's a separate world over there.
At least get the facts right when spouting off classist nonsense
By yermom (not verified) - 3/28/09 - 12:03 pm
It's illegal for any landlord to refuse to rent to someone with a Section 8 voucher.
Classist?
By Marc - 3/30/09 - 3:44 pm
a. WTF does classist mean?
b. Please show me your approved one-sentence explanation of "this is a housing project now"
c. Apartments have to be explicitly entered into the Section 8 program, do they not? From what I've seen, it's not vouchers; it's apartments that are guaranteed steady income to hold whoever the program director sends there, right?
ABC
By yermom (not verified) - 3/30/09 - 7:13 pm
a. It probably took you longer to ask that question than it would have for you to google the term and find it defined for you.
b. I'm not sure what you're getting at, but if a complex has residents paying market rent, then it's not a housing project, unless we're going by the literal meaning of the term, in which any sort of planned development would be a housing project.
c. Landlords can choose to put themselves on the list of apartments that are already approved for Section 8, as in, they can have the agency that oversees the voucher do the inspection so someone with the right voucher can move right in. This complex has done this for some of their units. A voucher holder is also permitted to find their own apartment and arrange to have the inspection done. The landlord can't refuse to rent to someone whose rent is being partially paid by the Section 8 program.
d. I thought though that Georgetowne, which is managed by Beacon Properties, was an affordable complex. This is different than Section 8. I believe that they set aside a certain number of their units to be below market rent. Most good-sized complexes do this, though the percentage varies. Harbor Point has income-based units in addition to the market-rate units inhabited by doctoral students and professional families. Neighborhood groups will often ask that a developer make a certain number of the units "affordable" as a condition of being allowed to develop. This can either be a policy similar to Section 8, where the rent is 30% of the family's monthly income, or it can be the complex's own plan where the affordable units might be 60% of the market price and available to tenants who make between 30K and 40K or some such.