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Police: Young guys with guns in stolen car try to outrace police only to get stuck in traffic
By adamg on Sun, 11/09/2014 - 3:23pm
Boston Police report that when officers on routine patrol at Walnut Park and Walnut Avenue in Roxbury last night saw a car pass them at a high rate of speed, they fed the car's plate number into a database and found it was stolen - so they turned on their blues and went in pursuit:
However, instead of stopping, the operator of the vehicle ignored the officer’s efforts and attempted to drive off until he was forced to come to a stop after encountering traffic in the area of 90 Crawford Street.
With no way to escape in the car, police say, the four occupants of the car got out and ran - only to learn responding officers were able to run faster.
All four now face charges related to the illegal guns police say they found - one on the car and one on Crawford Street, where one of the four allegedly tried to ditch it.
More specifically:
Umhari Bufford, 20, was captured at Humboldt and Ruthven and charged with receiving a stolen motor vehicle, unlawful possession of a firearm and resisting arrest. One officer suffered an injury taking him down, police say.
15-year-old, not named because of his age, arrested after a brief struggle at the car, charged with illegal possession of a loaded Sig Sauer P226, reported stolen in Somerville and found on the car's front seat. Kid faces charges of receiving a stolen motor vehicle, possession of a stolen firearm, unlawful possession of a firearm, unlawful possession of ammunition and resisting arrest.
Robert Tejeda, 22, also taken down while trying to run away on Crawford Street. Pursuing officers watched him pull a loaded .32 Smith & Wesson and toss it in the area of 90 Crawford St., police say. He's charged with receiving a stolen motor vehicle, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of a firearm as a second offense.
Johan Avalo, 17, had "several rounds of ammunition" on him, which officers found during a pat frisk, police say. He was charged with receiving a stolen motor vehicle, unlawful possession of a firearm and unlawful possession of a firearm.
Innocent, etc.
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planned drive by?
Heard this incident on the scanner.
Thankfully no casualties, and the weapons were recovered.
Thanks to quick coordinated actions of BPD
Stolen car? These guys with firearms.....
planning a drive by?
Where did the guns come from?
Second offense for illegal
Second offense for illegal firearm. Isn't there a mandatory minimum of one year for that? Is he out after serving time? Did he beat the case because of some technicality that a judge deemed legit enough to drop the charge?
Its like a rite of passage to the kids now to have a gun charge and beat it. Its emboldening them and they push the limit more and more. The police can do the best job but when it gets to court and they are let go time and time again its the communities and the regular people that pay. Its really such a shame for people just trying to live amongst it all.
What's the chance...
What's the chance he did a year in jail and used that opportunity to make connections and otherwise further his criminal career? A judge can't lock someone up forever.
I'm not saying he shouldn't have done more time or shouldn't go to jail but just throwing people in jail clearly isn't solving the violence problem.
It is
But it should be longer than a year to make any sort of difference and turn it into a deterrent instead of a thug rite of passage. As for incarceration costs, treating a gunshot victim assuming the shooter had semi-decent aim costs taxpayers hundreds of thousands or even millions, meaning keeping violent thugs locked up is actually quite a bargain.
Plea bargaining- gun offenses
Swallowing the gun' law
Prosecutors have their own lingo when they drop a gun charge as part of a plea agreement.
They call it "swallowing the gun."
It happens for a number of reasons. Sometimes there is a problem with evidence or witnesses, such as in the Barnett case. If a criminal runs, drops the gun and isn't caught red-handed, it can be difficult to prove who had the gun.
Sometimes the evidence is thrown out by the court, as in the Spearman case. But only 11 percent of all the gun charge cases dismissed by prosecutors during the five years studied by The Star were for evidentiary reasons.
Other times prosecutors bargain away such a charge in order to secure a guilty plea on another charge.
Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said his office often dismisses a charge in negotiations to get a guilty plea on another charge.
➡That's typical of other prosecutors as well. A large majority of cases nationwide are plea bargained.
http://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2014/10/05/exclusive-violence-r...
My favorite variant of this story
Carjacker jumps behind the wheel prepared to fly away.... And discovers that there are, what, three pedals? And where's the PRNDL thing, and what's that thing sticking up between the seats anyways?
Oh look
Second and subsequent offense. I wonder what the punishment was the first time for Tejeda.
There was no punishment. A
There was no punishment. A year in jail is a gift of street cred, even if they are convicted and sentenced.
Johan Avalo
That name sounded really familiar, and then I realized that I had seen it in the comment section of the kid who rode on top of the O-Line train a while back. Same kid?
http://www.universalhub.com/2014/police-hunt-teen-who-rode-top-orange-li...
About a quarter of the way down in the comments.
https://www.facebook.com/johan.avalo/about
Oh, you mean the "gunna at
Oh, you mean the "gunna at heat st bricks"? sounds like such a nice boy it must be mistaken identity.
Don't do the crime if you can't do the time...
It's all feeling hard and invincible until you run into traffic and get out runned by a cop. Too funny.
More liberal BS
This is a big part of the crime problem - the reluctance to treat criminal suspects as criminal suspects, regardless of their age.
And the idea that a 15 year old being publically named as a suspect will harm them for life is the best example of people being braniwashed by junk science I've ever heard.
tsunami
Tsunami, he isn't 15. Hes actually 18 just lied about his age