Boston Police report arresting the teens for the fatal Jan. 12, 2007 shooting of Luis Gerena near the Jackson Square T stop.

Nurudeen Alabi, now 19, of Roxbury and Darrell Rodrigues, now 17, of Roxbury, were already in custody on other, unrelated charges, police say.

Police say the two shot Gerena on Horan Way shortly after he got off the Orange Line at Jackson Square. Gerena made it to Parker Street before collapsing. He died at Boston Medical Center.

Boy, 13, was minutes from home when slain.

Miss Von Schtoop reads this Globe story about panhandling at Mass. Ave. and Melnea Cass Boulevard and finds it pretty funny, from the Bulwer-Lytton opening sentence to the lack of any mention of all the Boston Chargers kids who equally annoy motorists:

... They open the article with such a cheeseball line: "The call went out: "Yo, po-po!" and within seconds, the panhandlers who meander with regularity through the intersection of Massachusetts Avenue and Melnea Cass Boulevard near Boston Medical Center scattered to parts unknown." Really quite unforgivable writing.

Pretty soon someone there is going to start an article with the line "It was a dark and stormy night.." at which point we can just hire a few wreckers to tear down 135 Morrissey Boulevard because all hope will have been lost. ...

Boston Police report arresting two 30something guys (one from Allston, one from Haverhill) for knocking over eight newspaper boxes in a row at Brighton and Harvard avenues early Saturday:

When asked to explain their actions, one of the suspects stated, "Don't you guys have anything better to do?"

The officers agreed with their logic and promptly found something better to do - taking them down to District 14 for some booking.

Meanwhile, police report arresting a Roxbury teen on charges he held a woman up at gunpoint Thursday evening at 48 Edgewood St.

The Globe story about those torn-up trees in Roxbury has the following:

... "It's disappointing and frustrating," said city tree inspector Leif Fixen, who returned to the park today to replant the trees in a cold rain. "You try very hard to make a difference in a neighborhood and somebody comes and rips them out." ...

Trees planted just a week ago at the Shirley Street playground in Roxbury, Channel 4 reports. No word if any men in crimson sweaters were spotted.

Boston Police responded to the sound of gunfire at the Academy Homes project in Roxbury around 7:30 last night just in time to see two alleged thugs with guns, who promptly ran off:

... Officers pulled up alongside the two armed, running suspects to try to apprehend them when one changed direction and ran inside Marcella Park where children and parents were already fleeing seeking cover after hearing the shots fired. Both suspects were pursued into the park where they continued to try to elude officers by jumping fences, running into the children's playground area, and under bleachers in the park. ...

Hasaan A. Seales, 19, of Roxbury and Charles Bomman, 18, of Jamaica Plain now face a variety of charges. Police say they also found the car the two were apparently shooting at.

Last year, the Globe highlighted Seales as somebody whose life was allegedly turned around by state anti-violence grants:

At yesterday's press conference, Hasaan Seales, 18, of Roxbury, said that the Youth Opportunity Boston program helped him turn away from street life. He is now working, helping on a botany project at Franklin Park, and is about to start studying for his GED.

About 90 minutes after the Roxbury arrests, police in Dorchester also heard gunfire and when one potential witness seemed "discombobulated," they searched him and say they found a loaded gun. Darren S. Winston, 19, of Dorchester, arrested.

Finally, in the ooh-a-tough-guy department, police this morning say they arrested Antonio Bland, 31, of Dorchester, on a charge of witness intimidation outside Roxbury District Court:

Officers were in court for a case involving the suspect when they observed him outside the court motioning with his fingers as if armed with a gun, and squeezing the trigger firing at in the direction of officers. The suspect was looking directly in the direction of the officers while being observed by a group of young males looked on.

Innocent, etc.

Paul Levy photographs some detritus from the Icelandic-owned BostonNow: A box dumped by the Green Line tracks at Longwood:

... Too bad, too, that they couldn't at least have picked up their trash before they folded.

Boston Police report that officers patrolling Dorchester Avenue and Leedville Street early yesterday in search of prostitutes and would-be robbers found a Lowell man armed to the hilt with a sawed-off shotgun, a pry bar, a claw hammer, a white mask, a stun gun and a pair of black gloves. No word on the status of the two men he allegedly was found talking to before the police moved in.

About half an hour later, over on Harrishof Street in Roxbury, police say a guy was apparently close to making good on his promise to blow up his babymama's car - they say they found him near the vehicle with some lighter fluid.

Third Decade reports spotting one on West Cottage Street between Dudley Street and Blue Hill Avenue today:

... I'm wondering, though, whether these birds are protected. Why can't residents go out and catch these birds? I mean, is it really all that different in theory from harvesting free-range chickens?

Woman yelled, he got arrested, on bus near Dudley.