Universal Hub - Chelsea

Prius-driving senior citizen charged as gun-toting drug runner

adamg — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:51:08 +0000

A 72-year-old Chelsea man with a record of drug and gun charges dating to 1968 was pulled out of his Prius Friday afternoon and arrested after police found ammo and numerous prescription pain pills on him, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Everett man charged with murder in Chelsea

adamg — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 14:54:05 +0000

A man with several aliases was ordered held on bail today on charges he shot Elder Morales, 21, to death around 9 p.m. yesterday at 52 Blossom St., the Suffolk County District Attorney's office and Chelsea Police report.

The suspect, known as Jonathan Castro, Manuel Castro and Manuel Jonathan Castro Menjivar, 22, was arrested this morning.

The DA's office provided this account:

GLAD Summer Party

gladevents — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 18:54:53 +0000

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Soon you'll be able to go faster miles an hour on the Tobin

adamg — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:33:23 +0000

State House News Service reports the state Department of Transportation plans to replace Tobin Bridge tollbooths with an "open tolling" system that will either debit your E-ZPass account or snap a photo of your license plate and then send you a bill. Could be in place by year's end.

Chelsea man gets teddy bear for Valentine's Day; unfortunately for him, authorities say it was stuffed with crystal meth

adamg — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:04:13 +0000

A Chelsea man faces drug-trafficking charges for the meth-stuffed Valentine's Day bear he allegedly accepted delivery of last week, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports, adding the package also contained several unadulterated heart-shaped Whitman's Samplers boxes of chocolate.

Annie Dookhan only good for one get-out-of-jail card, Natty Ice-sipping Chelsea man learns

adamg — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 19:25:40 +0000

A Chelsea man released from a 2 1/2-jail sentence for drug dealing because his evidence was certified by former state chemist Annie Dookhan wound up back in jail yesterday after police found him in possession of "eight baggies of suspected crack cocaine packaged for individual sale," the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

The DA's office says Chelsea officers responded to the Bellingham Square McDonald's last night when Jonathan Vaughan, 26, allegedly refused a request to leave when workers saw him drinking a can of Natural Ice Beer. According to the DA's office:

DA: Chelsea man bashed in head with Lexus tire jack over sneaker theft; two arrested

adamg — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 04:32:03 +0000

Two men were arraigned today on charges they smashed a Chelsea resident upside the head Sunday as punishment for the sneakers they say he stole from them.

Alexander Guevara, 21, of Chelsea, and Antonio Rivera, 21, of Boston, had bail set at $1,500 and $1,000 respectively, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office, which provided this account:

Chelsea police responded to the area of Grove and Highland streets at about 4:15 on Sunday afternoon to find a 24-year-old Chelsea man sitting on the ground holding his head. The man told police he had been hit in the head with a tire jack by a man with a Rolling Stones tattoo on his neck who apparently believed the victim had stolen sneakers from him in Revere.

Witnesses in the area corroborated that account, saying that two men exited a gray Lexus, go to the trunk, and retrieve a tire jack and a baseball bat. One of the men, now believed to be Guevara, beat the victim in the head with the jack. The second man, now believed to be Rivera, used a knife to threaten the victim and two of the witnesses.

The victim was taken to Mass. General and is expected to survive, the DA's office says.

Innocent, etc.

Alleged drug mule hospitalized after balloons full of heroin burst in his stomach

adamg — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:58:39 +0000

A man found unconscious at the Wyndham Hotel in Chelsea will be arraigned as soon as he recovers from the heroin overdose he got when some of the balloons burst, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Doctors recovered some of the balloons from the stomach of Luis Sanabria-Morales, 40, but he may still have more plastic-coated heroin inside, the DA's office says. Spokesman Jake Wark says authorities are willing to let nature take its course:

In some cases, such as those in which a person is observed swallowing the drugs or it's very early on in the ingestion, police may get a warrant to have the person's stomach pumped. In a situation like this one, where that opportunity has gone, we usually wait. Doctors take X-rays to track the course of the items and monitor their health throughout. They may take other actions -- potentially including an operation, I guess -- depending on medical necessity and the best interests of the patient/suspect, but that's a medical decision and not a law enforcement one. We're content to wait until the stuff becomes "abandoned property."

Innocent, etc.

Inbound side of Tobin Bridge shut

adamg — Mon, 29 Oct 2012 22:49:22 +0000

Channel 7 tweets.

Meanwhile, in East Boston, people are reporting bright flashes, possibly from exploding transformers.

Hurry: Free Tobin Bridge souvenirs in Chelsea

adamg — Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:44:38 +0000

Mary J. shows one of the Tobin souvenirs that are now yours for the asking underneath the bridge in Chelsea - although she's not all that entranced, based on her tweet to MassDOT:

A piece of the rotting Tobin bridge on Beacon St. in Chelsea - fix it already.

MassDOT contractors are in the middle of a two-year rehab of the bridge. Last month, you may recall, the work had to be stopped when testing showed problems with the pipe network used for firefighting.