Boston College

BC officials, police doubt Latina student's story that she was attacked twice last weekend

adamg — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:43:48 +0000

A Boston College vice president e-mailed students today to report an investigation by campus police found no basis to a freshman's story that she was the victim of two racially motivated attacks over the weekend. According to one account, she told police a man hurled a racial epithet at her Friday night, stabbed her and then found her the next night and began kicking her where bandages covered her stab wound.

But her story didn't hold up, Vice President for Student Affairs Patrick Rombalski wrote in an e-mail tonight: "BCPD has concluded that no threat was ever present to the BC community or to the individual," He added, however, that police are continuing to investigate a separate report that a driver yelled a racial epithet at another student as she walked on campus.

Rombalski's complete e-mail:

Probably not many BU wisecracks at BC tonight

adamg — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 22:00:14 +0000

A player on the BC football team was arraigned today on charges he used his cell phone to record the sounds of his roommate and a woman having sex, then played it for others; all very illegal under Massachusetts law. Channel 5 reports.

No sign of missing BC student in Chestnut Hill Reservoir

adamg — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:54:31 +0000

Citizen Bank surveillance photo of Garcia at 12:18 a.m. the day he disappeared.

State Police say four days' of dives into the Chestnut Hill Reservoir produced no traces of Franco Garcia, a Boston College student last spotted shortly after leaving Mary Ann's in Cleveland Circle early on Feb. 22:

We searched the reservoir with divers and sonar for four full days with negative results. Likewise, all ground and air searches earlier this week have not located any evidence. The searches have been exhaustive, and have encompassed the water, surrounding wooded areas, residential areas, BC facilities, reservoir pump houses, and abandoned buildings. While the search of the reservoir is over the investigation by Newton, State, Boston, and Boston College Police will continue through other investigative methods. Anyone who thinks they may have seen Franco should call Newton PD or call State Police by dialing 911 on their cell phone. Nothing, including foul play, has been ruled out. We remain hopeful that we will be able to bring Franco home to his family alive.

Find Franco Garcia Facebook page.

BC student missing

adamg — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 03:27:19 +0000

Missing BC student.

Franco Garcia was last seen Tuesday night at Mary Ann's in Cleveland Circle. He made a phone call around 1:15 a.m., possibly on his way back to the BC campus, but he hasn't been heard from since - and his car is still parked at the school.

If you've seen him since then, or know anything at all about what's happened to him, contact Newton Police detectives at 617-796-2104.

Online mystery: Who's posting news about BC and the IRA subpoenas?

adamg — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:23:52 +0000

John Carroll can't help but wonder who's behind Boston College Subpoena News and posting news about the college's fight to block subpoenas related to material in its archive of IRA interviews: Could it be the archive's director?

Acid test for firefighters at BC

adamg — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:29:58 +0000

The Boston Fire Department reports a sulfuric-acid spill at the Boston College science building left one professor with "very minor burns" around 6:20 p.m.

The department's hazmat team responded to the spill at 2609 Beacon St. to evaluate and clean up the spill, of about a quart of the H₂SO₄.

In May, firefighters evacuated two BC buildings and a few nearby houses as a precaution during a possible chlorine spill.

Court: Campus cops can't just root around students' rooms

adamg — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:49:05 +0000

The Supreme Judicial Court today threw out drug evidence against two BC students because campus police didn't have a warrant or clear, voluntary permission from the students to search their room.

Maybe those BC kids weren't quite to blame for that Comm. Ave. trolley crash

adamg — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:02:32 +0000

Remember that crash involving the seven BC students in an SUV that got hit by a trolley on Comm. Ave.? Brian McGrory reports the T suspended the trolley driver because he was doing 35 m.p.h. at the time, when the trolley shouldn't have been going more than 10 m.p.h. And now it's pursuing perjury charges against him, because he allegedly failed to tell investigators about his multiple driving infractions before the T hired him.

BC accuses MBTA of dissembling on Comm. Ave. trolley/car collision

adamg — Mon, 03 May 2010 17:40:11 +0000

The Heights reports an attack by Boston College officials on the veracity of an MBTA investigation into an April 25 crash between a trolley and a Jeep loaded with BC students at Comm. Ave. and South Street.

"As a result of our discussions with the students, we have serious concerns about the MBTA's seemingly deliberate campaign to assign full blame for this unfortunate incident on our students," [BC spokesman Jack Dunn said.

BC didn't go so far as to blame the T for the crash, which sent several of the students to the hospital, the paper reports. Instead, the college says the driver may have been distracted by other traffic on the road.

Three BC hockey players among those charged in connection with trolley/SUV crash in Brighton

adamg — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 21:08:19 +0000

UPDATE: Trolley driver suspended for exceeding speed limit on that stretch of track.

MBTA Transit Police have charged seven teenagers with being minors in possession of alcohol after a midnight crash between a Jeep and a Green Line trolley on Commonwealth Avenue at South Street.

Good thing the Eagles hockey season is over

adamg — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 12:06:08 +0000

The Boston Fire Department reports an ammonia leak at Conte Forum this morning.

Alleged drunk teen charged with plowing into BC student, then taking off

adamg — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:52:51 +0000

Benjamin Knott, 18, is scheduled for arraignment this morning in Brighton District Court on charges he ran into Bethany Pfalzgraf while she was walking along St. Thomas More Road early Sunday. BC Police fond Knott and his car nearby; Channel 25 reports Pfalzgraf remains in critical condition.

BC student government vows not to let next big party get out of hand

adamg — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:53:55 +0000

The Heights reports plans are in the works to monitor noise from Modstock this spring, to prevent more problems with neighbors.

The Heights itself opines neighboring residents shouldn't let their feelings about "university expansion, the passage of the Master Plan, the possibility of residence halls on the Brighton Campus, the degradation of the neighborhood brought on by absentee landlords and the havoc students are known to wreak in the community" color their judgment about parties on campus.

Another Green Line fail?

roadman — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:08:14 +0000

According to the latest WBZ Traffic on the 3s report, the T is apparently bussing between Blanford and Packards Corner on the B line.

Nothing on the T web page yet, although they do mention an earlier failed streetcar on the C line at St. Marys.

At BC, even the on-campus parties cause problems

adamg — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:14:00 +0000

BC official apologizes to residents for Saturday party that was supposed to end at 11 p.m. but instead raged on through the wee hours, the Globe reports.