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By adamg - 3/6/24 - 10:59 am

A federal judge this week sentenced a member of Dorchester's Ashmont Street gang to seven years in federal prison after he admitted that he was in possession of a gun and ammunition he shouldn't have been since he was on parole for an earlier gun-running sentence - as well as being in possession of saleable quantities of cocaine. Read more.

By adamg - 3/4/24 - 12:53 pm

One alleged Heath Street gang member living with another alleged member of the gang was formally charged Friday for the drugs an ATF agent says investigators found in his room last month during a search originally aimed at the other guy as part of a sweep of some 40 alleged Heath Street members. Read more.

By adamg - 2/14/24 - 1:34 pm
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Agents from a variety of federal law-enforcement agencies and Boston Police today swept up more than 40 alleged members of the Heath Street gang, based at the Mildred Hailey apartments in Jamaica Plain, on charges that range from drug dealing and being a felon in possession of a firearm to committing RICO violations.
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By adamg - 1/27/24 - 2:20 pm

A one-time member of the Columbia Point Dawgs gang, who spent several years in federal prison for crack dealing and being a felon in possession of a gun faces more prison time after a federal jury convicted him of being a felon in possession of a gun again, the US Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 7/29/23 - 6:11 pm
Images of man wanted for shooting at Nubian Square station

Photo of shooting and suspect via TPD.

Transit Police report they are looking for Andre Parham-Rankin, 27, whom they say fired a single bullet at somebody at the Nubian Square bus depot, but missed, around 5:40 a.m. on July 20. Read more.

By adamg - 7/10/23 - 1:21 pm

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today upheld the second-degree murder convictions of three men for beating and stabbing a teenager to death at Blue Hill Avenue and Wilcock Street in 2007, rejecting arguments that a juror who answered "no" to questions about relatives involved in criminal cases or the court system meant the three couldn't get a fair trial. Read more.

By adamg - 5/4/23 - 11:53 pm

A federal judge today sentenced Shaun "Rev" Harrison to ten years in federal prison for helping to run a local chapter of the Latin Kings and for shooting an English High School student point blank in the back of the head in 2015. Read more.

By adamg - 2/6/23 - 4:37 pm

An alleged Morse Street gang member arrested on federal drug charges on Friday was charged today with murdering Tyler Lawrence, 13, of Norwood at Babson and Fremont streets in Mattapan on Jan. 29, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 1/27/23 - 11:56 am
Brandao with floating guns

Brandao, in one of his videos.

A federal judge this week sentenced NOB gang leader Michael "G Fredo" Brandao, 22, to nine years in prison for his guilty plea to RICO charges. Read more.

By adamg - 11/5/22 - 12:57 pm

A violence vacuum left after 61 MS-13 members were arrested in 2016 was filled by MS-13 leaders coming up from New York to re-assert the gang on the streets of East Boston and neighboring communities through murders, beatings and the recruiting of local high-school students from Central America, federal prosecutors say. Read more.

By adamg - 9/28/22 - 8:47 pm

Live Boston tells us about the criminal record of Alberto "FatBoii Flex" Polanco, charged with trying to gun down a plainclothes Boston Police officer on Waumbeck Street in Roxbury on Sunday while out on $30,000 bail for an equally unsuccessful attempt to gun down somebody at a Providence nightclub on May 22.

By adamg - 9/20/22 - 9:46 am

Tyreek Hall, 19, arrested by Boston Police on June 9 for the "ghost" gun and ammo they say he had stuffed in his waistband, now also faces a federal charge that could get him up to ten years in an out-of-state prison. Read more.

By adamg - 8/21/22 - 4:03 pm

Boston Police report arresting a man, a 17-year-old and two 15-year-olds they say were roaming Oak Lawn Cemetery in Roslindale with loaded guns Friday evening. Read more.

By adamg - 8/18/22 - 11:04 am

Boston Police report arresting a man they say came to Orton Field on D Street to film a music video with a gun loaded with 11 bullets. Read more.

By adamg - 8/2/22 - 4:17 pm
Officer checks blown-out window on Stoughton Street

One of the cars hit by gunfire. Photo by Live Boston.

A man authorities say once headed up the Hendry Street Gang and who was finishing up a federal drug-distribution sentence at a halfway house in the Fenway got into a dispute with somebody outside the Dublin House in Uphams Corner on March 2 that ended with him firing numerous shots across Stoughton Street, a police detective told the Boston Licensing Board today. Read more.

By adamg - 5/24/22 - 11:40 pm

Boston Police report the BPD gang unit arrested a 15-year-old in Heath Street Gang territory at the Mildred Hailey Apartments yesterday on charges he shot somebody on the Mission Hill turf of the Annunciation Road gang on May 11. Read more.

By adamg - 4/15/22 - 3:05 pm
One of the arrests by an armor-plated ATF agent

Alleged gang member taken in by ATF this morning. Photo by Live Boston.

A federal judge today unsealed an indictment charging 19 alleged members of the Dorchester-based Cameron Street gang with a variety of RICO violations dating to 2010 that include one murder, 33 attempted murders, 17 armed robberies, 19 unarmed robberies, including home invasions, one carjacking and selling crack, marijuana and guns. Read more.

By adamg - 4/5/22 - 11:09 pm

The Boston Police gang unit has arrested three men from Roxbury and Dorchester on charges they stole a headstone out of Oak Lawn Cemetery in Roslindale for a teen murdered in 2017. Read more.

By adamg - 2/17/22 - 2:14 pm
Salvador

Salvador, convicted double murderer, making gang signs, with a gang tattoo. From government sentencing memo.

A federal judge today sentenced Henri "Perverso" Salvador Gutierrez to life in prison for the murders of Luis Fernando Orellana Ruano, 18, at Memorial Stadium in East Boston in December, 2016 and Herson Rivas, 17, in a Lynn park two years later. Read more.

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