Boston Police report arresting two men on gun charges early Sunday after officers on patrol noticed them making a right turn on a red light at Erie and Washington street - despite a sign prohibiting right turns on red lights. Read more.
Not the gun used in the robbery, but also seized: Unassembled assault weapon and bullets.
Boston Police report arresting two men, 64 and 65, at the J.J. Carroll House, 130 Chestnut Hill Ave. in Brighton, yesterday on charges they tried to hold up the Cumberland Farms store just down the block at 148 Chestnut Hill Ave. on May 15. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on gun charges Thursday afternoon following a traffic stop at Columbia Road and Hancock Street in Dorchester. Read more.
Cambridge Police report two people were shot at Donnelly Field at 9:39 p.m. Read more.
Federal prosecutors yesterday charged a Dorchester man with being an unlicensed gun dealer based on the quantity of guns he allegedly sold in the year and a half before he was arrested on state gun charges in 2022. Read more.
Around noon, a man with a gun dressed all in yellow and a woman tried to get into the Congress Street side of City Hall, but were turned away by a Municipal Protective Services guard even after the man waved the gun at him. Read more.
Surveillance photo via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for a guy in a plaid long-sleeve shirt with one of the fancier Stop & Shop reusable bags who they say held up the Black Sheep Multiservice store at 537 Dudley St. in Roxbury around 5:40 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
Last Thursday night, Boston Police had to respond to two near simultaneous gunfire attacks in East Boston, one at Brandywyne Village, the other on Liverpool Street near Maverick Street. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a 13-year-old after he returned to the Mr. Pleasant Play Area to retrieve the handgun with 10 loaded rounds somebody had left there Monday morning - along with another young teen and a Charlestown man. Read more.
Romero waving around some ill gotten cash, via US Attorney's office.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced Kenny Romero to 7 1/4 years - 87 months - in federal prison for violating the RICO law and for selling cocaine and being a felon in possession of firearms and ammunition - 63 months for the charges to which he'd pleaded guilty and another 24 months for doing all that while on probation for an earlier gun-possession charge. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting four people on gun charges after somebody reported them looking into windows on Beachview Road in East Boston around 2 p.m. on May 7. Read more.
Boston Police responded to Circuit Street between Washington and Regent streets on a report of several shots fired shortly before 10 p.m. Officers found at least one shell casing near the park there.
Two people were shot, both in the leg, inside 87 Fuller St., off Washington Street, in Dorchester, around 9:25 p.m. Because of the severity of at least one victim's injuries, the homicide unit was called in.
Boston Police responded to River Street and Edgewater Drive in Mattapan on a report of at least four rounds fired around 9:20 p.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
A federal judge yesterday sentenced a Roxbury man to nearly four years in prison for being a felon in possession of a firearm following his arrest on gun charges just a week after he was released from prison from an 18-month sentence for assault with a firearm. Read more.
Boston Police report two officers patrolling in their cruiser near Warren Gardens heard "several loud bangs," then spotted a man on Dabney Street holding an item in the air with smoke coming from the end, shortly after midnight on Saturday. Read more.
Police officers responding to 911 calls about gunfire and shouting found a man shot in the leg at 226 North St. in the North End around 2:55 a.m. Injuries were not considered life threatening.
Two cars were also hit by gunfire.
Photo of seized gun and bullets by BPD.
Boston Police report a detail cop at Tremont and Northampton streets who went to investigate when he heard two teens arguing arrested one for the gun loaded with two bullets police say he had in his hoodie pocket. Read more.
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