Update: Victim identified as James Jones, 30, of Dorchester.
A man was shot on Corona Street between Bowdoin Street and Geneva Avenue around 2:05 p.m. Read more.
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By adamg - 10/13/23 - 10:20 am
Boston Police report arresting men from Dedham and Mattapan on gun charges at Geneva Avenue and Bowdoin Street in Dorchester after gang-unit officers spotted one of them tossing something out of their car and then noticed the car seemed to have excessively tinted windows. Read more.
By adamg - 10/11/23 - 3:19 pm
A New Hampshire state legislator who can't buy a gun - because he spent more than 12 years in federal prison on gun and conspiracy charges - is asking a federal judge to let him join Kang Lu in Lu's bid to overturn gun-control laws in Massachusetts. Read more.
By adamg - 10/10/23 - 3:04 pm
Boston Police report arresting a 16-year-old on charges he fired a round outside 60 Southern Ave. around 5:10 p.m. on Monday. Read more.
By adamg - 10/3/23 - 2:49 pm
Surveillance photos via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy they say showed a gun and then grabbed cash out of the register at a convenience store at 4 Park Plaza, just off Boylston, shortly before 5 a.m. on Monday. Read more.
By adamg - 10/3/23 - 2:14 pm
The owners of Macumba Latina, 477 River St., say they've fired two bouncers who failed in their main job of watching the club's supposedly locked rear door, letting in a man who then shot two men - one a club regular - in what seemed like a planned hit early on Sept. 4. Read more.
By adamg - 10/3/23 - 1:10 pm
Boston Police report arresting Gianni Johnson, 24, of Dorchester for his role in shootings on Ames Way in Dorchester that sent five people, including an 11-year-old, to the hospital on Sept. 17. Read more.
By adamg - 9/29/23 - 9:58 am
Boston Police report arresting a 13-year-old they say had "a Hi-Point C9 Luger with seven rounds in the magazine" in his jacket pocket around 6 p.m. yesterday at Columbia Road and Washington Street in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 9/26/23 - 2:38 pm
Update: Board rules restaurant not at fault.
A dispute over a shove inside El Jefe's Taqueria, 269 Huntington Ave. in the Fenway, early one May morning ended with a woman beaten to the ground and a man whipping out a gun and shooting up a car that had nothing to do with either the victim or any of her attackers, police and the restaurant's owner told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 9/25/23 - 9:55 pm
A Charlestown man was arrested Sunday night on gun charges by officers who recognized his freshly repaired Audi as the one that had gotten shot up a couple weeks earlier on McNulty Court near Walford Way in Charlestown's Bunker Hill development, Boston Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office report. Read more.
By adamg - 9/24/23 - 12:49 pm
A Cambridge man who was charged with using a knife during a scarf robbery at the Back Bay Saks in June now faces federal charges that he used his time in front of bars to become a gun-packing drug dealer, according to documents unsealed in US District Court in Boston on Friday. Read more.
By adamg - 9/20/23 - 11:24 pm
Boston Police report a man already charged with improper storage of a firearm to which somebody under 18 could gain access was arrested today on additional charges that include manslaughter for the July 13 shooting death of his brother, Savion Ellis, 12, at 35 Fessenden St. in Mattapan. Read more.
By adamg - 9/19/23 - 9:11 pm
A man was found shot in the leg on Bethune Way at Shabazz Way in the Orchard Gardens development in Roxbury shortly after 9 p.m.
By adamg - 9/17/23 - 9:31 pm
Police swarm Ames Street. Photo by Gavin Schoch.
Update: One man arrested, second sought.
Five people were shot - including a 14-year-old shot in the ankle and an 11-year-old - on Ames Street in the Franklin Field development around 8:40 p.m., Boston Area Public Safety Alerts and Stanley Staco report. Read more.
By adamg - 9/12/23 - 2:50 pm
Bost in an Ice Cream hoodie, from his girlfriend's phone via the FBI.
The FBI, which teamed up with Boston Police this past spring to investigate a series of armed store robberies across the city, today arrested a man they say held up a convenience store on Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester just 35 minutes after he held up a convenience store in Brockton. Read more.
By adamg - 9/9/23 - 3:38 pm
Victim identified as Princess Charles, 29, of Quincy.
Boston Police report a woman was shot to death at 12 Greenock St. off Blue Hill Avenue in Dorchester around 5:25 a.m. Read more.
By adamg - 9/6/23 - 4:01 pm
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.
By adamg - 9/5/23 - 10:19 pm
Benjamin on security footage at Downtown Crossing and at the phone store.
A Cambridge man who was arrested in March by Boston and Cambridge police for robbing the JP Wireless store, 319 Centre St. in Jamaica Plain, was charged again today, this time by the FBI after he was charged with violating the federal Hobbs Act for interfering with interstate commerce through threats or violence. Read more.
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