Roxbury Crossing
Grand jury ups charges against man accused of running down scooter driver in Roxbury
By adamg - 7/7/11 - 11:06 amA Roslindale man arrested on charges he fatally struck a scooter driver at Roxbury Crossing and then drove away last November was indicted last week on new charges that could put him in prison for a much longer sentence, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Colin Ratiu is expected to be arraigned tomorrow in Suffolk Superior Court on charges of motor vehicle homicide while operating under the influence of alcohol, which has a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison, and leaving the scene of an accident causing death, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison.
Prosecutors said Ratiu hit Andrew Prior on Tremont Street on Nov. 14, then kept driving his Hyundai Santa Fe toward Brigham Circle as Prior lay dying. Police found Ratiu's SUV - with extensive front-end damage - in his driveway.
Ratiu had been arrested - after an extensive search - on a charge of negligent motor vehicle homicide, which would have meant no more than 2 1/2 years in a county jail.
Innocent, etc.
Police try to stem wave of late-night armed robberies between Jackson Square and Roxbury Crossing
By adamg - 4/28/11 - 2:19 pmDistrict B-2 reports several gunpoint robberies over the past two weeks in the area between Centre Street and Columbus Avenue in Jackson Square and Tremont Street in Roxbury Crossing:
Most of the robberies have occurred between the hours of 11:30PM and 1:30AM. The suspects have been described as two black males armed with a black handgun. One of the robbery victims noticed a white SUV motor vehicle with occupants inside.
Another rescue on the T when man falls on the tracks at Roxbury Crossing
By adamg - 3/30/11 - 10:47 pmChannel 4 reports on an incident Wednesday night.
Police hunt driver in hit-and-run death of moped rider in Roxbury
By adamg - 11/15/10 - 6:35 amMark Parkinson and AlertNewEngland report a moped driver was hit and killed by a car around midnight on Tremont Street near the Roxbury Crossing T stop.
UPDATE: Boston Police report they are looking for a silver or gray Hyundai Santa Fe or similar vehicle, likely with major front-end damage.
Protest over Roxbury Community College arrest
By adamg - 10/29/10 - 8:21 pm
About 25 residents and Roxbury Community College students and professors gathered across the street at the Roxbury Crossing T stop this evening to protest the way a 16-year-old wanted on various charges was subdued by Boston Police a week ago.
Kieashia Hartfield of Roxbury wants all the cops involved to be fired:
The graffiti chronicler
By adamg - 9/23/10 - 5:58 amRob Larsen has posted hundreds of photos of Boston-area graffiti.
Meanwhile, Jonas Prang sighs that people like the ones Larsen follows are the reason we can't have nice things, specifically, a mural at the Roxbury Crossing T stop.
Pit fall at Roxbury Crossing T stop
By adamg - 9/15/10 - 6:26 amLate-night Orange Line riders had their trip through Roxbury Crossing delayed shortly after midnight when a man fell on the tracks at Roxbury Crossing and the MBTA stopped service to let EMTs get him off the tracks. T spokesman Joe Pesaturo said he was not hit by a train and did not come into contact with the third rail.
Four charged in afternoon stabbing outside Roxbury Crossing T stop
By adamg - 4/6/10 - 1:16 pmFour people face knife-related charges after a dispute yesterday afternoon that started at the entrance to the Orange Line station and ended with one of them bleeding from a stab wound inside a nearby Domino's, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.
According to the District Attorney's office, the fight began as a three-on-one verbal altercation mid-afternoon. Angel Renta, 19, of South Boston, left the station, but the other three followed him into the Domino's at 1400 Tremont St. There, prosecutors allege, Freddy Peguero, 18, of South Boston, pulled a knife on Renta, but Renta pulled out his own blade and stabbed Peguero first and then fled.
Also facing a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon: Omar Rosa, 21, Roxbury.
Renta was released without bail following arraignment today, while Rosa was ordered held on $750 bail and a 16-year-old whose name was not released because of his age, held in lieu of $250 bail. Peguero, still in the hospital, was not arraigned today. Their next scheduled court appearances are May 7.
Innocent, etc.
Charlestown man charged with armed holdup outside Roxbury Crossing T stop
By adamg - 2/2/10 - 4:06 pmBoston Police report arresting a Charlestown man in Roxbury on charges he tried to hold two people at the Orange Line station shortly after midnight today. According to police:
A fare fight: Woman charged with throwing coins at T bus driver
By adamg - 6/15/09 - 11:56 am
Coin toss, MBTA style, as captured by a bus surveillance camera.
A Dorchester woman faces assault and battery charges after allegedly throwing a bunch of coins at a driver on a Route 66 bus who wouldn't let her board because the amount of coins wasn't enough for one fare.
