A father and son found guilty in one of the city's more notorious Mob rubouts - the 1995 quadruple murder at the Charlestown 99 - go before the Supreme Judicial Court today to try to get their multiple life sentences overturned.

Good Lord:

A passenger noticed a man holding the child's hand. That passenger says she overheard the girl say she was hungry, and the man told her to "Please be quiet."

T police say there was no criminal conduct. They consider the case closed.

Ed. Been There note: I feel for the guy.

Faegirl spots the modern-day Paul Revere after he rowed across the Harbor to Charlestown.

Boston Police report arresting a Somerville dude at Maffa Way and Cambridge Street in Charlestown for allegedly putting a knife to an acquaintance's neck after the guy refused to give him money for drugs:

... The suspect ... brandished a knife and put it to the victim's neck and threatened to kill the victim if he did not give the suspect some money. At this point, the victim reported that he pushed the knife from his neck causing a laceration to his finger and a scratch on his neck. ...

In Dorchester, meanwhile, police say a South End woman came out of the South Bay Stop & Shop last night and flagged down a guy she'd seen before in a gypsy cab for a ride. When she opened her wallet, the guy allegedly grabbed all her money and ran away. Police, however, report finding the Brockton man - in the store parking lot.

Finally, in a case not involving any acquaintances, Boston Police say they arrested a Roslindale man drug charges in Grove Hall last night - two months after he'd been arrested on similar charges in Braintree. Police say they found Jeury Medina with a billfold full of cocaine and 12 bags of heroin when they asked him to get out of a car that had been reported stolen earlier in the day.

In February, Medina was arrested in Braintree after police say they found nine bags of heroin in his pants. Medina was also arrested on Centre Street in Roslindale on March 30 for larceny over $200.

It's life without parole for Carlos Maldonado, convicted of first-degree murder today in the shooting death of Mark Parilla after a fight in the Bunker Hill housing project on Dec. 26, 2006, the Suffolk County DA's office announced.

An unusually depressing police-blotter column in the Roslindale Transcript includes this item:

A Pleasant Cafe employee called police after two men claiming to be from Charlestown came into the Pleasant Cafe and started asking employees how much the restaurant made in a night and when does the eatery close.

Faegirl notices a mullet warning at Sullivan Square.

Boston Police update us on that guy who was trying to beat the meter maid to his vehicle in Charlestown yesterday:

Officers learned from one of the victim's co-workers that he had not been shot with a nail as initially thought but rather by a BB. Officers then responded to Mass General Hospital and spoke with the attending physician who confirmed what the officer had learned from the victim’s coworkers. The physician told officers that the victim had been x-rayed and a determination made that the object that hit him was not a nail but rather a small BB pellet which was removed from the victim's temple.

The case is still under investigation.

In other crime news, Boston Police also report on a really pissed off woman in the South End.

Charlestown - Charlestown one square mile of mixed up, lost souls. A community that once took pride in watching out for each other. A neighborhood where respect and pride came in the name of a gentle smile, a tip of the cap. That neighborhood is gone forever. Is that for better or for worse?

UPDATE: Somebody shot at him. Boston Police say he was shot with a BB, not by his own nail gun.

Channel 4 reports:

A construction worker trying to outrace a meter maid ended up getting shot in the head by his own nail gun Thursday morning.

The story says the injury was not life-threatening, but does not say if he still got a ticket.