Sullivan Square
Unlike Penelope, at least this pet was on a leash
By adamg - 10/3/11 - 3:07 pmElizabeth DiRusso posts a photo of a woman and her ferret at the Back Bay Orange Line station, adds:
It would probably be safer if the ferret stood behind the yellow line.
Meanwhile, and totally unrelated, except it also happened at an Orange Line stop, Andrea reports:
Some guy at Sullivan Station just turned into a corner and starting peeing 2 feet away from me.
An MBTA menagerie: Cats, hawks, parrots, turkeys, pet rats, pigeons, snakes.
Marco the police dog takes a bite out of crime after holdup at Sullivan Square T stop
By adamg - 5/9/11 - 12:38 pm
MBTA Transit Police report arresting one of three men who allegedly held a woman up at knifepoint just past midnight Sunday at the Sullivan Square T stop - after a police dog bit him in the ass.
According to a police report, a woman was standing by the upper busway when three Hispanic men approached her, pulled out knives and demanded her money. For good measure, they called her a "nigger." She told them, in Spanish, that she was Hispanic herself, but that didn't work. After they fled, and police arrived, she got in an cruiser with an officer - and Marco, the police dog.
Court: Mistaking a Mexican for a Middle Eastern terrorist not profiling if he's doing other suspicious things
By adamg - 12/17/10 - 4:41 pmA federal appeals court ruled today that MBTA cops had the right to arrest a Mexican man at the Sullivan Square T stop after the Madrid bombings because he and other "Middle Eastern" men in his van seemed to be doing the same things terrorists might do before trying to blow up the station.
Alleged Orange Line thug arrested
By adamg - 12/4/10 - 5:35 pm
MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Somerville man for an attack on two women on the Orange Line last month.
Joseph Balistreri, 36, was arrested at his home around 1:30 p.m. today after Transit Police say they received numerous tips from people who recognized him from grainy photos posted yesterday. Balistreri will be arraigned Monday in Charlestown District Court on charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon - a shod foot.
According to an MBTA police report, the women said they were sitting on an inbound train near Sullivan around 11 p.m. on Nov. 19 when Balistreri approached them and called both of them "lesbians" and one of them a "nigger:"
Both victims then stated that the suspect kicked them both, hitting [one victim] in the bottom lip, causing the laceration and swelling and [the other victim] in the chest. After the altercation, the suspect spat on both the faces of [the victims] and left the station in an unknown direction of flight.
The report says video cameras showed he gotten on the train about ten minutes earlier by jumping over the fare gates at Malden.
He is currently being held in lieu of $7,500 bail, the MBTA reports.
Read the police report on the incident.
Innocent, etc.
Somebody struck, killed by Orange Line train at Sullivan
By adamg - 4/17/10 - 11:20 pmThe Boston Fire Department reports crews were called to the Sullivan Square T stop around midnight after somebody was hit by a train there. Not long after, the department reported the person was dead. The MBTA started running shuttle buses between Haymarket and Wellington after it shut power in both directions to let firefighters attempt to extricate the person.
Slow trainitis spreads to the Orange Line
By adamg - 5/13/09 - 9:00 amIt's one of those mornings on the Orange Line. Tom Lee tweets:
I've been stuck in the Sullivan Square Orange Line station For the past 30 mins while the Fire Dept investigates why an alarm is going off!
Man arrested for Somerville robberies
By adamg - 12/15/08 - 10:05 amChannel 4 reports Somerville Police have arrested a man for a series of recent robberies on women, including one in which a woman was stabbed outside the Sullivan Square T stop.
Creepy-looking pudgy guy with bags under his eyes wanted for Sullivan Square stabbing
By adamg - 12/10/08 - 2:34 pmWicked Local Somerville posts a police drawing of the guy wanted for stabbing a woman in the chest Monday night when she wouldn't give up her handbag.
Orange Line shut as train runs over woman
By adamg - 6/26/08 - 10:56 amAt Sullivan Square around 9 a.m.. Service has since been restored, according to mbta.com.
That makes three people hit by T trains in three days.
T police decide it's OK for a guy to hold a young girl's hand on a bus if they're related
By adamg - 5/6/08 - 9:09 pmA passenger noticed a man holding the child's hand. That passenger says she overheard the girl say she was hungry, and the man told her to "Please be quiet."
T police say there was no criminal conduct. They consider the case closed.
Ed. Been There note: I feel for the guy.
