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By adamg - 8/29/24 - 1:50 pm
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.
By adamg - 8/29/24 - 9:27 am
The Dorchester Reporter reports not everybody is enamored of a city proposal to do to Columbia Road between Blue Hill and Massachusetts avenues what happened on Columbus Avenue. Quotes one pizza-shop owner who predicts dedicated bus lanes would add 20 minutes to all his deliveries.
By adamg - 8/28/24 - 12:55 pm
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>.
By adamg - 8/27/24 - 12:52 pm
Rendering by Khalsa Design.
The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a local developer's plans for a 90-unit apartment building at 115-121 Boston St. in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 8/26/24 - 11:42 am
Boston Police report on a series of unrelated arrests Saturday of people wandering around the Caribbean Carnival area with loaded guns, from a 16-year-old and two pals they say had two guns in a backpack - one loaded with 18 bullets - to a man with a gun loaded with seven rounds who was charged with his fourth firearm offense. Read more.
By adamg - 8/25/24 - 11:32 am
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.
By adamg - 8/24/24 - 9:32 pm
Boston Police report arresting David Adams, 38, of Dorchester, on charges he fatally stabbed a man outside the Engine 18 firehouse on Dorchester Avenue last night.
By adamg - 8/24/24 - 12:07 pm
In 1984, Lou Jones took an aerial photo of the two Boston Gas tanks on Commercial Point off the Expressway and Morrissey Boulevard in Dorchester. Read more.
By adamg - 8/24/24 - 10:03 am
Victim identified as David Abrain, 52, of Roxbury.
Boston Police report a man was stabbed outside the Engine 18 fire station at 1879 Dorchester Ave. in Dorchester around 10 p.m. on Friday. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
By adamg - 8/23/24 - 2:08 pm
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.
By adamg - 8/23/24 - 1:33 pm
A bouncer at the Dublin Pub, 7 Stoughton St. in Dorchester's Uphams Corner, lost her job after she pulled out some mace she wasn't supposed to have and used it to subdue an irate woman trying to barge back into the joint after being kicked out, bar managers and its attorney, told the Boston Licensing Board at a hearing this week. Read more.
By adamg - 8/23/24 - 10:22 am
A Worcester developer and a local architecture firm say they will soon file detailed plans for replacing the shuttered Dorchester Trust at 555-559 Columbia Rd. in Dorchester's Uphams Corner with a two-story Boston Public Library branch and 33 affordable condos. Read more.
By adamg - 8/22/24 - 9:18 am
Surveillance photo of peeper via BPD.
Boston Police are seeking help to identify the guy they say crept up to a house on Devon Street in Grove Hall and then spent some time "looking into an occupied bathroom window" around 2:20 a.m. on Wednesday.
If he looks familiar, contact detectives at 617-343-4275 or the anonymous tip line by calling 800-494-TIPS or by texting TIP to CRIME (27463).
By adamg - 8/21/24 - 10:10 pm
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.
By adamg - 8/21/24 - 2:16 pm
The Dorchester Reporter updates us on opposition to a proposed Papa John's francise on Dorchester Avenue in Fields Corner, not because of the quality of the pizza as because it's an out-of-state business rather than something more homegrown - such as Antonio's Hi-Fi Pizza across the street. The proposed franchisee, though, is a Dorchester resident.
By adamg - 8/21/24 - 11:39 am
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.
By adamg - 8/16/24 - 11:24 am
An associate of the Norton/Olney/Barry Gang violated his federal probation for passing a bad check when he shot somebody repeatedly on Burrell Street in Dorchester in 2022, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Read more.
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