Boston Police are looking for two suspects who held up a guy around 4 p.m. on Terrace Street near Alleghany Street.
One suspect was apparently armed with a gun. The other, however, carried a machete. Both are described as black males.
AlertNewEngland tweets somebody was threatened with a machete this afternoon at the gas station at 1605 Hyde Park Ave. The suspect got away in a white Ford pickup.
Wicked Local Cambridge explains why you should never try to break up an argument in the Pit.
Wicked Local Roslindale/West Roxbury reports the Tedeschi on Spring Street in West Roxbury was held up the other day by a guy with a machete:
The employee said he touched the suspect’s knife as the suspect went around the counter and that the knife was plastic.
Wicked Local Allston/Brighton reports a feces-covered homeless guy waving a machete last Friday so disturbed some Head of the Charles Regatta spectators that they attempted to flee by running into rush-hour traffic on the Soldiers Field Road bridge. Nobody was injured; homeless guy was arrested.
Boston Police report four people were shot around 3:50 a.m. at 7 Edson St. Carl Hentz Belizaire, 21, of Mattapan, was pronounced dead at Brigham and Women's Hospital. The other three victims - a man, 26, a man, 40, and a woman, 19 - are all expected to survive.
Boston Police report on a series of incidents last Friday and Saturday:
Boston Police report on a fight at Eutaw and Meridian streets around 3 p.m. on Jan. 23:
The victim stated that while walking he was bumped in the shoulder area by one of three Hispanic males and that an argument ensued between the victim and the three unknown Hispanic males. The victim stated that the argument became physical and that suspect # 1 a white Hispanic male wearing a black North Face jacket with fur on the hood, used a machete to cut him on the back of his right hand causing a very serious laceration.
City Councilor Chuck Turner notes the absence of sugar-cane fields in Boston and so proposes banning the giant knives.
Boston Police report arresting a pair of East Boston teens on charges they tried to slice a guy up at the Government Center T stop around 4:20 p.m. today.
The victim, in his late teens or early 20s, was slashed in the arm, but is expected to survive.
Police charged Juan Chavez, 18, of East Boston, with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and affray. Another teen, 15, was charged with disturbing the peace and affray. Both will be arraigned Friday in Boston Municipal Court.
BPDNews today is filled with the sort of stupid carnage you normally associate with really hot days:
A man allegedly tired of people parking in front of his house on Cygnet Street in Brighton took decisive action yesterday evening - When yet another person parked in front of his house, he started throwing bricks at his car. Police report arresting Wei Chin, 25, "after a brief struggle."
Boston Police report arresting a Saugus man spotted walking down Bennington Street with a two-foot machete protruding from his pants.
Earlier:
Police stop machete-wielding thug before he can finish carving man up
Ready to rumble in East Boston.
Boston Police report officers on patrol in East Boston around 9 last night spotted a man chasing another man around Maverick Square with a machete. Before they could intervene, the attacker swung at his victim several times, opening him up in the arm and thigh. One officer used his belt as a tourniquet to help stop the victim's blood loss.
Josue Pineda, 22, of East Boston, now faces several charges, including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and assault with intent to murder.
Unfortunately, for the carload of machete-wielding Sharks on the way to fight the Jets, somebody dropped a dime. Police report arresting three 20somethings armed with two machetes and their 14-year-old beer-guzzling chica after stopping their car on Gove Street.
Also yesterday, somebody got shot in Jamaica Plain and somebody else got stabbed in Brighton, police report.
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