A former Dorchester resident now living in Quincy expected to trade 60 grams of fentanyl for four handguns from Florida yesterday but instead found himself arrested by ATF agents and Quincy Police because his trading partner had turned informant in the hopes of reducing his own sentence for his role in gun trafficking in another jurisdiction, according to court records unsealed in US District Court in Boston today. Read more.
The nerve of John Kerry living a couple blocks from this busted gas lamp.
An outraged citizen who lives in Dorchester files a 311 complaint about the 311 complaint somebody else filed about a gas lamp on Revere Street on Beacon Hill that is not working correctly: Read more.
A dispute during a dominoes match over who knows more about the Jamaican capital of Kingston ended with one player going after the other two with a machete in the Franklin Field development in Dorchester on Aug. 25, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
The Boston Fire Department reports a fire that started at 37 Holiday St. in Dorchester around 3:30 p.m. spread to two neighboring houses before it was put out. Read more.
Boston Police report re-arresting a man they say took part in a Carnival-morning gun battle that injured eight people. Read more.
Boston Police report a man was shot where Old Road meets Columbia Road around 11:40 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
The FBI today arrested former Transit Police sergeant David Finnerty, 47, of Rutland, for his alleged role in helping one of his underlings cover up the way that officer used a baton to beat a homeless man at the Ashmont T station - and then arrest the man for on a bogus charge for attacking him. Read more.
Surveillance photos via BPD.
Boston Police report they are seeking help to ID a man dressed in all black in connection with Saturday morning's shootings of eight people on Talbot Avenue near Blue Hill Avenue. Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter compiles answers to a questionnaire it send to the candidates seeking to replace Frank Baker as District 3 city councilor in the September preliminary.
Rendering by Derek Rubinoff.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved plans by the owner of the shuttered US Petroleum station at Dorchester Avenue and Semont Road in Dorchester to replace it with a four-story, 14-unit residential building with six parking spaces and ground-floor space for a restaurant. Read more.
Also see: Brawl outside Tremont Street movie theater.
Boston Police report arresting eight people, between 12 and 17, after a large fight in which some of the combatants allegedly directed their small fists of fury at officers as well, outside the movie theater Sunday afternoon. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting three men and a teenager for the eight-victim gun battle just feet from the Jouvert parade up Blue Hill Avenue Saturday morning - although only two of them may have done the shooting. Read more.
Five recovered guns and ammo, photo by BPD.
Boston Police report arresting a man they say stabbed somebody with a screwdriver at 493 Blue Hill Ave. in Grove Hall shortly after 6 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
Greg Cook got up early to take in the Jouvert parade up Blue Hill Avenue yesterday. Read more.
A concerned citizen filed a 311 report about mystery bubbling in the water just off the rocks along the UMass Boston campus. Read more.
Update: One of the victims was also one of the shooters police say.
Eight people were shot on Talbot Avenue near Blue Hill Avenue around 7:45 a.m. as the Jouvert parade, part of the day's Carnival celebration, was passing by. Read more.
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office yesterday moved to seize the 2017 BMW 750I it alleges a man sold crack out of at Mass and Cass and at the South Bay mall. Read more.
The MBTA announced today it's shutting the Ashmont branch of the Red Line and the Mattapan Line between Oct. 14 and 29 for "critical track work." Read more.
The Dorchester Reporter reports on one of the potential effects of the proposal to add bus and bike lanes in the center of the road, says a September meeting has been scheduled to try to figure out a solution.
A Macy's with no escalators.
Macy's says it will be opening a micro-Macy's at the South Bay mall next month. Read more.
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