A federal judge today sentenced Herbert Small, 33, to two years in prison and six years of probation following his guilty plea to charges he sold two guns and cocaine to a man working with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Dorchester last year. Read more.
Guns
Boston Police report arresting two 17-year-olds they say shot five people on Greenwood Street in Dorchester last month, including an 11-year-old. Read more/a>.
Victim identified as JaShun Cooley, 38, of Roxbury.
A man was shot at Washington and Morse streets, shortly before 10 p.m. on Saturday. Read more.
Boston Police report officers who stopped a car at Kingsdale and Bernard streets in Dorchester because of its excessively tinted windows early this morning ended up arresting a 17-year-old passenger for the "Glock 29 with fifteen rounds in the magazine" he had in a fanny pack he was holding. Read more.
A Randolph man was ordered held because he couldn't come up with $5,000 bail at his arraignment Monday on charges he had something to do with the shooting and moped robbery of a man on Geneva Avenue at Westville Street shortly before 2:20 a.m. on Saturday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
Boston Police report officers had little trouble finding a suspect in a moped robbery yesterday: He was the guy being pinned to the ground by a group of people at Arcadia Park and Ditson Street in Dorchester's Fields Corner. Read more.
Five people were shot in the the area of Circuit Drive between Pierpont Road and the golf clubhouse tonight. Read more.
Boston Police report they are looking for a chain robber who displayed a gun to force one of women to give up a chain she was wearing on Dudley Street at Clarence Street in Roxbury around 8:20 p.m. on Sunday. Read more.
A Chelsea man was arrested today on charges he held up Rockland Trust branches on Centre Street in Jamaica Plain and Truman Parkway in Hyde Park last month, as well as a bank in Weymouth. Read more.
Victim identified as Leudis Mejia Sanchez, 49, of Dorchester.
Two men were shot in an apartment at 5 Trent Street in Dorchester around 6:40 p.m. Read more.
A person was shot shortly before 10 p.m. on Saturday on Castlegate Road at Normandy Street. Injuries not considered life threatening. A gun was recovered at the scene.
A Manchester, NH man faces charges that he spent part of Monday driving around Mattapan and Dorchester, pointing a BB gun that looked more like an assault weapon at people - and that he got off at least three rounds from the thing without hitting anybody while strolling down one Dorchester street. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting a man they say shot another man outside 10 Roxbury St. in Nubian Square shortly before 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Read more.
Boston Police report a man was shot at 28 Fernboro St. in Dorchester around 8 a.m. Read more.
Boston Police report arresting Christian Coloma, 25, of Roslindale on charges related to a man getting shot in the chest outside the Jackson Square Orange Line stop yesterday afternoon. Read more.
Update: Suspect arrested in connection with the shooting.
A man in a pickup truck was shot in the chest next to the Jackson Square MBTA stop shortly before 2:40 p.m. The homicide unit was called in due to the severity of the victim's injuries.
A possible suspect on a scooter was detained several blocks away; a gun recovered along the route he took to get there.
Boston Police report that officers who pulled over a speeding car whose driver didn't have current registration on Wood Avenue near Oakwood Street around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday. Read more.