Chinatown

Amazing Kreskin amazed anybody buying the story about the hypnotized Chinatown woman

adamg — Sun, 13 May 2012 00:53:44 +0000

The Phoenix talks to the showman about the woman who told police she was hypnotized into handing over $160,000 in cash to some scammers.

Police ID club where Stephen Perez's killers may have chilled before the murder

adamg — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:17:23 +0000

Boston Police report the four men spotted running out of a parking garage around the time Stephen Perez was murdered may have been at a birthday party at Caprice/Underbar, 275 Tremont St. earlier in the evening.

Police are looking for the four men, possibly from Lynn, in connection with the death of Perez, an Army veteran, early on April 28. Police have asked anybody who may have taken video or photos around 2 a.m. in the area of Tremont and Stuart to contact them.

Lynn men may have something to do with vet's murder in the Theater District

adamg — Fri, 04 May 2012 22:35:30 +0000

Boston Police report they are looking for the four men shown rapidly exiting a Theater District parking garage around the time Stephen Perez was fatally shot on Tremont Street.

Investigators believe these individuals may have a connection to Lynn, MA.

Police are also asking anybody who might have been in the area around 2 a.m. on Sunday and who might have had their phone cameras running to forward copies of their photos or video to them.

Hypnotic scammers targeting elderly Chinatown residents score big

adamg — Fri, 04 May 2012 17:02:22 +0000

Boston Police report scammers made off with $160,000 last month from an elderly resident who thinks they hypnotized her first.

Tremont Street murder victim was serviceman just back from Afghanistan

adamg — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:20:23 +0000

Friends identified the victim as Stephen Perez of Revere, whom the Globe reports had just returned from Afghanistan and who wanted to join the Revere Police Department.

The 2007 graduate of Revere High School was a sniper in the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division in Cop Charkh, Afghanistan.

Police report no arrests for his death, which happened around 2 a.m., Saturday.

Man found shot to death in Theater District

adamg — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:20:37 +0000

4/28/12 - 2:00 am

Boston Police report finding a 22-year-old man with a gunshot wound on Tremont Street, midway between Stuart and Oak, around 2 a.m. He was taken around the corner to Tufts Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Chinatown businesses raided in EBT fraud investigation

adamg — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 09:28:48 +0000

The Globe reports five stores in Chinatown were raided yesterday as part of a state investigation into alleged abuses of the cards, given to poor people to buy food. The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports four people will be arraigned today after their arrests as part of the raids.

Violence erupts again in Tufts Medical Center garage; two charged with stabbing, beating

adamg — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 18:54:51 +0000

4/14/12 - 2:39 am

Boston Police report a man was found beaten and stabbed around 2:40 a.m. today in a stairwell at the garage at 274 Tremont St.

The victim was taken to the medical center for treatment of what police say was non-life-threatening injuries.

Javier Fernandez, 35, of Dorchester, was charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, a knife. Jose Lugo, 31, of Hyde Park, was charged with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon. Police say security personnel from the medical center and a nearby club helped find and arrest the two.

On March 26, three men were charged with beating and attempting to kidnap a man in the garage.

Innocent, etc.

Woman pounds the pavement in Chinatown

adamg — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 20:13:21 +0000

Maggie O'Neil filed this report:

Woman in Chinatown trying to open a coconut on the cement on the corner of Essex and Harrison this morning.

Orange Line service to Forest Hills shut by trash fire near Chinatown station

adamg — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:54:05 +0000

A trash fire on the tracks just before Chinatown outbound around 1:40 p.m. shut service to Forest Hills. MBTA workers extinguished the fire themselves, but Boston firefighters went into the tunnel to take a look.

The last major trash fire near the Chinatown stop was almost exactly a year ago.

3/31/12 - 1:40 pm

Three charged with beating, trying to kidnap woman's boyfriend in downtown garage

adamg — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:18:06 +0000

3/26/12 - 1:00 pm

Updated Tuesday afternoon.

Boston Police report a man who had just pulled into a space in a Tufts Medical Center garage on Tremont Street yesterday afternoon was pulled out by three men who parked their van next to him and who then beat him and tried to stuff him in the van.

Poor thing in the Financial District

adamg — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:14:04 +0000

Downtown wildlife.

Maggie O'Neil photographed this coyote on Summer Street today.

The Animal Rescue League reports it captured the coyote in Chinatown, after a chase that included a brief foray through the mouth of the Ted Williams Tunnel. The League adds:

We are working with Mass Fish and Wildlife on a release site outside the city limits. No ACME products used on this rescue.

Power restored to Bay Village, Chinatown, part of Back Bay

adamg — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 10:35:27 +0000

Boston Police report that as of 4:15 a.m., NStar had restored power to Bay Village, Chinatown and the area east of Clarendon Street.

Police also provide a tip for motorists who find themselves at an intersection with no functioning traffic lights and no police to direct traffic, and no, it's not to re-create that scene from Gremlins:

Motorists are asked and instructed to treat the signal as a stop sign. As such, motorists should yield to traffic to their right before safely proceeding through the intersection.

The T reports the Prudential and Symphony stops on the Green Line remain closed.

The Citgo sign remains off, as does power in the rest of Kenmore Square.

Berklee, right between both the Dalton Street and TC's Lounge fires, has cancelled classes today.

Patron's oral agreement costs Theater District club one day's receipts

adamg — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 19:58:46 +0000

The Boston Licensing Board today ordered Royale on Tremont Street to close for one day because a club worker offered to let an ejected patron back in if she serviced him orally.

The board ordered the punishment even though the club manager wouldn't let the woman back in after their quickie assignation - timed at four minutes by police - in the men's room of a neighboring hotel. The employee no longer works at the club.

Royale can choose the day it shuts down or appeal the punishment to the state Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission.

Giving doorman a blowjob no guarantee of readmission to the concert you've just been kicked out of

adamg — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:44:38 +0000

A Royale employee's apparent indiscretion in dealing with a woman who really, really wanted to get back into a concert there on Jan. 18 earned the Theater District club a trip to the Boston Licensing Board to explain itself this morning.

Police say the woman, attending an 18+ show that night, told officers she was being escorted out of the club on Tremont Street for being too rowdy when a doorman suggested that if she "performed oral sex on him," he'd slip her back in.