Chelsea
DA: Case against alleged gang member won't be hurt by courthouse theft of gun held as evidence against him
By adamg - 1/28/12 - 9:39 amThe Herald reports a clerk magistrate at Chelsea District Court has been reassigned to another court as investigators try to figure out how three guns being held in a court evidence safe were stolen.
Two of the guns were from cases in which the trials had already ended, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. The third, however, was being held as evidence against Sokhorn Sor, still awaiting trial in Suffolk Superior Court for illegal weapons possession.
The Herald says Sor's lawyer will move to have the case against her client thrown out. Channel 4 reports Sor is an alleged member of the Bloods gang in Revere.
Jake Wark, spokesman for the DA's office, says prosecutors still have a case even without the Sig Sauer P232:
T bus driver charged with faking attempted shooting, collecting worker's comp
By adamg - 1/27/12 - 8:16 amNancy Parker, 53, will be arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court today on charges she faked an attack on her MBTA bus in Chelsea, then collected worker's compensation.
Parker, of Burlington, is formally charged with worker's compensation fraud, misleading an investigator and filing a false report for the Oct. 2, 2007 incident on a 111 bus, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. The T fired her after they learned of discrepancies in her claim, the DA's office says.
In 2009, a Chelsea District Court judge tore into prosecutors, saying that while Parker had changed her initial story of being shot by a stranger in a robbery attempt to being shot by an ex-lover, there was little evidence to suggest she was lying about actually being shot.
Her arraignment today comes after an indictment by a grand jury.
Innocent, etc.
Tim Murray's little fundraising pal
By adamg - 1/22/12 - 9:50 amThat would, of course, be disgraced former Chelsea Housing Authority director Michael McLaughlin, whom the Globe reveals was just a bit more than the "campaign volunteer" Murray said he was - and that worrying about McLaughlin may have kept him up and led him to doze off on that Crown Vic-smashing ride.
Outrage of the month: A pity that Chelsea housing guy wasn't found out earlier
By adamg - 12/30/11 - 12:06 pmThe Globe reports a public-housing tenant - a single mom - was evicted from her apartment, which was then given to one of the guy's toadies, who pays $25 a month in rent even though she makes $50,000 a year.
Chelsea man charged with ending argument by stomping pregnant woman, stabbing man in back
By adamg - 12/29/11 - 9:00 amAlready facing charges of witness intimidation, Miguel Rodriguez is now behind bars for allegedly throwing a pregnant woman to the ground and repeatedly kicking her and then, when he was done with her, stabbing her boyfriend so badly he needed 93 stitches to close all the holes in his back, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Didn't we expect better of Scott Harshbarger?
By adamg - 11/12/11 - 11:56 amThis Globe story doesn't exactly paint the former AG and Common Cause chief in the best of light. It's not just calling the governor's cell number to plead for that Chelsea housing guy but changing his story on whether or not he's the guy's lawyer and who put him up to it all. Moral compass, anyone?
Dan Kennedy, though, suggests:
Wouldn't take this at face value. Remember, Harshbarger is trying to stop casinos.
Man gets out of car on Tobin in rush hour, jumps over side of bridge
By adamg - 11/10/11 - 7:26 pmWitnesses on the upper deck of the Tobin Bridge watched a man get out of his vehicle and jump around 5:30 p.m., according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.
The State Police Underwater Recovery Unit recovered his body in the water about 30 minutes later, the DA's office says, adding investigators are now working to identify him.
His death comes about 2 1/2 weeks after another man was talked out of jumping after causing a ten-mile inbound backup.
Chelsea pride: City housing director tops in nation
By adamg - 11/5/11 - 8:58 amOr rather, was: Michael McLaughlin is no longer the highest paid housing director in the country; he left office rather suddenly this week.
When Chelsea caught fire
By adamg - 10/27/11 - 3:45 pmThe Boston Public Library has posted 70 photos of the 1973 fire that destroyed 18 square blocks of Chelsea.
At its height, the fire became a near unstoppable firestorm so intense that buildings burst into flames before the fire actually reached them - the air pushed out by the conflagration was that hot. Amazingly, there were no deaths from the fires, which at one point were fought by crews from 67 Boston-area communities.
Would-be jumper causes massive backup at Tobin Bridge
By adamg - 10/24/11 - 6:12 amInbound traffic on Rte. 1 over the Tobin Bridge was backed up ten miles this morning when police ordered the bridge shut so they could try to talk down a man threatening to jump. State Police crisis negotiators rushed to the scene and talked him out of it shortly after 7 a.m.
