South Shore

Where's Whitey?

adamg — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:10:51 +0000

UPDATE: Sheesh, whatever happened to the days when you could trust stuff you read online? The Herald's O'Ryan Johnson tweets neither mobster nor moll is in transit anywhere - due to a computer glitch at the Bureau of Prisons, they've been marked as "in transit" since June.

Jack Gately checks Whitey Bulger's prison record and discovers that, like Sal DiMasi yesterday, he's also "in transit" (DiMasi is spending the night in Brooklyn). Chuck Turner, however, continues to bunk in West Virginia, while Dianne Wilkerson remains ensconced in Stamford.

Un-fare

adamg — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 20:14:23 +0000

Also see: Riders of the Hull ferry talk about the proposed end of their commute:

Police: Man picked the wrong commuter-rail conductor to mess with

adamg — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:45:17 +0000

KaneA conductor on the Old Colony Line confronted a man he says stole another rider's wallet - and got him to turn over the woman's wallet and money.

Steven Kane, 34, of Bridgewater, was arrested on a charge of larceny from a person around 5 p.m. yesterday at the Lakeville/Middleboro commuter-rail stop, the MBTA reports. According to the T, a 53-year-old woman awoke from a nap as the train pulled into the station and noticed her purse was open and her wallet gone. A woman sitting behind her pointed to Kane:

Stakeout at South Shore commuter lot works: Couple nabbed as catalytic-converter thieves

adamg — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 18:58:52 +0000

MBTA Transit Police report arresting a Fall River couple on charges they stole catalytic converters off cars parking in commuter lots in Hanson and Halifax last night.

Dennis and Tina Fager, 39 and 37, were only charged with the three catalytic converters police found them with, but said they could be responsible for as many as 100 converter grabs on the South Shore.

Police say detectives who had staked out the Hanson commuter-rail parking lot due to a spate of recent converter thefts spotted the couple drive into the lot around 4:15 p.m. yesterday, just after an inbound train departed the station:

Something about getting elected in Massachusetts must lead to tin ears

adamg — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:53:25 +0000

Tim Murray, say hello to Bill Delahunt.

A $1,000 ride on commuter rail

adamg — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 14:43:10 +0000

No, don't worry, the T probably isn't planning on raising fares that much. But, as the Patriot Ledger reports, thieves are now trolling the parking lots at commuter-rail and Red Line stops and stealing catalytic converters off cars - a seasoned thief can saw one off in less than 30 seconds. They get $200 for their "scrap" converters, you get a $1,000 bill for a new one.

Expensive ties at the MBTA

adamg — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:41:25 +0000

CommonWealth reports the MBTA settled a lawsuit against the company that made defective ties on South Shore commuter-rail tracks for just $6 million, which means the T will have to eat roughly $85 million in replacement costs.

In our neighborhood, when people run out of candy, they just turn out the front lights

adamg — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 01:46:25 +0000

Father Tim tweets:

Only in Hingham: When people run out of candy, they start handing out cash. Seriously.

Somebody is knocking over the Dunkin' Donuts of eastern Mass.

adamg — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:02:28 +0000

The Patriot Ledger reports a burglary ring has decided it's time to rob the donut stores:

"It's pretty vast. There's been quite a number,” Braintree Deputy Police Chief Russell Jenkins said. "They've been throughout the South Shore, Boston and beyond."

The Friends of Eddie Coyle, stage adaptation of classic Boston crime novel, opens Dec. 8 at Oberon

Eddie Coyle — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 11:25:39 +0000

Cambridge, Mass. — Tickets are on sale now for George V. Higgins’ The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Stickball Productions’ world premiere stage adaptation of the quintessential Boston crime novel. The production runs Dec. 8–Jan. 15 at Oberon in Harvard Square, for tickets, visit www.thefriendsofeddiecoyle.com

It is the winter of ‘69 in Boston and Eddie Coyle is a bottom of the barrel hood attempting to stay alive and out of jail among his “friends” – cops, bartenders, radical hippies, bank robbers, hit men and informants. Weeks away from a prison sentence for trucking stolen booze, Eddie’s making a few bucks supplying the guns for a rash of brazen bank heists, while looking to tip someone in for a kind word to the judge.

George V. Higgins’ classic novel has been called the “best crime novel ever written” by Elmore Leonard, and literary scholars have compared his unforgiving and realistic depiction of Boston’s underworld with the works of Dickens, Dostoevsky, and Balzac. Through dialogue quintessentially Bostonian, and the most poignant homage to Bobby Orr and the ’69-’70 Boston Bruins in literature, The Friends of Eddie Coyle has set the bar for Boston crime stories for nearly 40 years.

Bobby Orr's daughter-in-law charged with wiretapping, drunk driving

adamg — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 14:39:13 +0000

The Patriot Ledger reports Chelsea Orr was arrested mainly for drunk driving the other night after allegedly plowing into a tree and rolling her car over, but that Cohasset police charged her with illegal wiretapping after she told them she'd recorded some officers at the hospital on her phone. She also namedropped Bobby Orr and vowed to have the arresting officer fired because she is "very powerful," police said.

Lawsuit over state wiretapping continues.

COMMONWEALTH vs. Gene A. JACKSON

adamg — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:43:17 +0000

NOTICE: The slip opinions and orders posted on this Web site are subject to formal revision and are superseded by the advance sheets and bound volumes of the Official Reports. This preliminary material will be removed from the Web site once the advance sheets of the Official Reports are published. If you find a typographical error or other formal error, please notify the Reporter of Decisions, Supreme Judicial Court, John Adams Courthouse, 1 Pemberton Square, Suite 2500, Boston, MA 02108-1750; (617) 557-1030;

COMMONWEALTH vs. Gene A. JACKSON.

No. 10-P-116.

January 3, 2011. - September 29, 2011.

Assault and Battery by Means of a Dangerous Weapon. Assault and Battery. Practice, Criminal, Duplicative convictions, Sentence.

COMPLAINT received and sworn to in the Cambridge Division of the District Court Department on May 20, 2009.

The case was heard by James H. Wexler, J., and a proceeding to review sentence was had before him.

Malcolm L. Burdine for the defendant.

Stephen C. Hoctor, Assistant District Attorney, for the Commonwealth.

Present: Kantrowitz, Katzmann, & Meade, JJ.

KATZMANN, J.

But they're just so darn comfy!

adamg — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:19:44 +0000

Scituate Police are looking for a man who robbed a bank yesterday while dressed in a Cape Cod hoodie, a black and gray winter hat with earflaps - and medium-blue pajama pants.

Police say stoner bank dude ran out of the bank and into a waiting tan, full-size pickup, driven by an accomplice. The pickup then hauled ass out of the area.

Alleged hit-run driver leads Boston, state police on wild chase that ends with him shot, dead on the South Shore

adamg — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:57:47 +0000

Updated at 1:30 p.m.

A chase that began with a man backing into a woman trying to get out of his car in Roxbury ended at Exit 14 off Rte. 3 when a Boston Police officer fatally shot him as, authorities said, he was "aggressively" going after police.

The suspect, still not identified, was taken to South Shore Hospital, where he died, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy said in a press conference at the scene. Several officers and a state trooper were injured, he said

Without power

adamg — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 13:08:20 +0000

The state reports that as of 6:30 a.m., nearly 140,000 Massachusetts customers remain without electricity - NStar 36,000 (about 850 in Boston) and National Grid 103,643.

NStar town-by-town numbers | National Grid map.

The Globe follows an NStar crew for a day and talks to National Grid about why Gillette Stadium got power before the rest of Foxboro.

Around 7 this morning, Andrea Courtois, who lives near the Rhode Island line but works in Brighton, tweeted:

Just saw a convoy of utility trucks heading S on 95. It pretty much brought tears to my eyes.

In Scituate, Art Beecher reports:

Day 4 w/o power: Have begun harboring deep resentment for these show-offs with their fancy "lights," "refrigeration," and "hot water."