Wood Island

Man with knife charged with threatening to kill Blue Line worker, getting into it with T cop

adamg — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:30:51 +0000

8/18/11 - 9:30 pm

A Jamaica Plain man got cut over his left eye during a struggle with an MBTA Transit Police officer investigating threats against a worker at the Wood Island Blue Line stop last night.

According to a police report, officers got a call around 9:30 p.m. from a customer-service agent at the station about a "loud and disruptive" man whom the CSA said had threatened to kill him. The officers were able to get Gentyrus Gibbs, 36, out of the station, but when they told him to sit down, he instead jumped up and came at one of the officers - who noticed he had a sheathed knife on his right hip. The two battled and both fell to the ground, with Gibbs getting a cut open above his right eye, the report says. As another officer grabbed his legs, the report says, the first cuffed him.

Police say Gibbs refused to let EMTs - or medical personnel at Mass. General - treat his cut and the hospital eventually put him in four-point leather restraints, the report says.

The report does not state what allegedly set Gibbs off.

Innocent, etc.

Who killed the clams of the Wood Island Flats?

adamg — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:49:46 +0000

Nobody's taken responsibility for a jet-fuel spill last fall that ended a decades-long clamming tradition, the East Boston Times-Free Press reports.

A shower of sparks from the overhead wires rarely a good omen on the Blue Line

adamg — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 11:17:30 +0000

At 6:58 a.m., Rodney Brown tweeted:

Might be late this a.m. Sparks showering down from overhead catenary wires where they meet the front of the Blue Line car I'm in.

At 7:11 a.m., Jennifer Montfort tweeted:

Delays on the Blue line inbound, fire problem at Wood Island. At Orient Heights waiting for the bus.

Police: Creepy starer follows woman home from the Blue Line

adamg — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:24:15 +0000

District A-7 relays a report from Transit Police about a woman who couldn't shake an alleged weirdo as she walked home from the Wood Island T stop around 1 p.m. yesterday:

The victim boarded a Blue Line train at MBTA Government Center Station along with a male who stared at her while on the train and followed her as she changed seats. The victim exited the train at MBTA Wood Island Station and the subject continued to follow her. The subject then approached the victim and asked her name. As the victim entered her home, she realized the subject was still watching her. The victim states the subject frequently boards the Blue Line train at MBTA Government Center and stares at her.

Staring Man is described as 28, 6'4", Hispanic or Middle Eastern, stocky build with a long scar on his face toward his neck. He was wearing a knit cap and a brown corduroy jacket.

Dead train on the Blue Line, but outbound

adamg — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:55:37 +0000

At Wood Island, the MBTA reports.