Boston Police and EMS responded to the Starbucks/Paper Store parking lot, 1810 Centre St. in West Roxbury on a report of a man in an SUV with an apparently self-inflected and fatal gunshot wound around 7:45 a.m.
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By adamg - 3/30/24 - 12:03 pm
Boston Police report a man arrested Friday on gun charges was later also charged with shooting a man Talbot Avenue at Dorchester Avenue last Sunday, leaving the victim with life-threatening injuries. Read more.
By adamg - 3/30/24 - 11:44 am
Boston Police report arresting a 15-year-old on charges he robbed three convenience stores on Blue Hill Avenue and Harvard Street in Dorchester - just after he entered a fourth store on Friday. Read more.
By adamg - 3/23/24 - 1:51 pm
Boston Police report arresting a Dorchester man on a variety of charges after they stopped him for driving on the wrong side of the street and speeding and found "an Interarms Ltd .45 caliber handgun loaded with one live .45 cartridge in the chamber and nine .45 in the magazine" and a machete in his car early this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 3/21/24 - 3:07 pm
An AARP mailing to a 51-year-old South End man with a criminal record dating to the 1990s helped investigators tie him to the loaded gun and separate box of ammo they found in a Harrison Archway apartment in February while searching for another man believed to be a Heath Street Gang member. Read more.
By adamg - 3/18/24 - 10:07 pm
Update: Man charged.
A Boston Police officer wearing a ballistic vest was shot outside 80 Esmond St. around 9:40 p.m., a couple minutes after he arrived with other officers to investigate a report of a man skulking around with a gun. Read more.
By adamg - 3/15/24 - 11:27 pm
Boston Police responding to 911 calls about gunfire in the area of Iaconno Playground in Hyde Park around 8:40 p.m. found two houses with gunshot damage - one at Readville Street and Como Road, the other further up Como, past Reynold Road.
By adamg - 3/15/24 - 9:34 pm
A man was shot in the leg on Dabney Street in Roxbury shortly after 9:10 p.m.
Serial robber gets 8 1/2 years in federal prison for armed holdups of stores in Dorchester, Brockton
By adamg - 3/11/24 - 11:14 am
A federal judge last week sentenced Fernando Bost, 32, to 8 1/2 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to robbing the RJ Smoke and Convenience Store at 844 Blue Hill Ave. in Dorchester on March 29, 2023 - just 35 minutes after he'd held up a store in Brockton. Read more.
By adamg - 3/9/24 - 3:00 pm
Boston Police report arresting a teenager Thursday for the armed holdup of a delivery person at 40 West 7th St. in the West Broadway development around 8:50 p.m. on Feb. 25. Read more.
By adamg - 3/5/24 - 1:23 pm
Update: Hotel found not at fault.
A man's planned $120 bed romp at the Back Bay Hilton turned into an armed robbery that ended with the prostitute and another john arrested immediately - and him being summonsed into court on a charge of sex for a fee - BPD detectives told the Boston Licensing Board this morning. Read more.
By adamg - 3/4/24 - 12:53 pm
One alleged Heath Street gang member living with another alleged member of the gang was formally charged Friday for the drugs an ATF agent says investigators found in his room last month during a search originally aimed at the other guy as part of a sweep of some 40 alleged Heath Street members. Read more.
By adamg - 2/29/24 - 10:29 pm
Surveillance photos of suspects via BPD.
Boston Police report they are looking for five people they say were involved in the armed holdup of a person in a Roxbury Community College parking lot at Columbus Avenue and Cedar Street taking both his phone and a silver Mercedes E-class SUV. Read more.
By adamg - 2/27/24 - 11:26 am
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports the two bodies found yesterday in a room on the 13th floor of the Moxy Hotel, 240 Tremont St., were those of a man, 43, and a woman, 24.
Both victims sustained bullet wounds. A firearm was recovered at the scene. The incident remains under investigation by Boston police and the Suffolk DA’s office.
By adamg - 2/26/24 - 2:57 pm
WCVB reports on two bodies found on the 13th floor of the Moxy Hotel, 240 Tremont St. shortly after noon.
By adamg - 2/22/24 - 11:49 am
An East Boston man faces a variety of gun charges for the two guns, one loaded with 31 bullets and a laser attachment, he had stowed in his sweatshirt and sweatpants, that state troopers found when they pulled him over for bombing past a stop sign while making a left turn in East Boston Monday afternoon, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.
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