A South End resident was arrested at the Brooke Courthouse yesterday after allegedly drawing his finger across his neck while staring at somebody awaiting Ricardo Arias's arraignment for the murder of Alex Sierra, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
A Roxbury resident, meanwhile, was arrested in the same courthouse on charges he repeatedly told people "someone else is going to die today," the DA's office says.
Both Jose Maysonet, 19, of the South End, and Derrick Hunt, 21, of Roxbury, were released on personal recognizance. However, Boston Municipal Court Judge Annette Forde revoked Hunt's bail on an earlier case and ordered Maysonet to wear a GPS monitor, stay away from the Villa Victoria development in the South End - where Sierra was gunned down - and to be back home by 8 p.m. The DA's office says both men are associated with Arias, who was ordered held without bail on a murder charge yesterday.
According to a statement by the DA's office, somebody who heard Hunt around the time Sierra's alleged teen accomplice was scheduled for arraignment went up to a Boston homicide detective. When the detective went to talk to Hunt, he and two other men fled the court building - but were unable to evade police. Then:
At about 2:00, as Arias himself was about to be arraigned in the Boston Municipal Court one flight up, a witness whose identity is being withheld for safety reasons approached a court officer of another incident. Maysonet – also allegedly affiliated with Arias and Mission Hill gang members – allegedly made eye contact with the witness, extended his right index finger, and drew it from ear to ear across his neck in what the witness perceived to be a threat. Maysonet also allegedly made gang signs with his hand during the incident.
Innocent, etc.
