Boston Police report officers investigating a report of an illegal basement apartment at 8 Glenrose Rd. yesterday found five mistreated dogs:
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Somebody stealing catalytic converters from vehicles in parking lots in South Boston, Columbia Point
By adamg - 1/24/14 - 5:03 pm
Over the past few days, four catalytic converters have been detached from vehicles, according to Capt. John Greland at C-6:
On Tuesday, the owners of a 1998 Toyota and a 2000 Toyota discovered their cars parked at 2 Morrissey Blvd. were missing their converters.
By adamg - 1/23/14 - 8:05 am
Jeannie Doherty posted this photo of a completely blocked I-93 south at Savin Hill at 8 a.m.
By adamg - 1/22/14 - 6:29 pm
Federal officials report arresting a Dorchester man for a December attack on a postal worker on Bailey Street - and say a second suspect - whom they say actually beat and shot the worker - remains at large.
Maurice Williams Miner-Gittens, 23, was arrested this morning on federal charges of conspiracy to rob, attempted robbery and kidnapping of a federal employee.
By adamg - 1/21/14 - 12:21 pm
A man taking a smoking break from bowling at Boston Bowl in Dorchester thought the odds at the shell game outside were pretty good: Put down $40 and if he guessed right, he'd win $100.
But, the man told the Boston Licensing Board this morning, after he handed the money to the guy running the shell game on the evening of Sept. 24 - which the guy added to his stack of "a few hundred in his hand" - he realized everybody else huddled around the car hood with bottle caps on it were in cahoots and that he was about to be scammed. So he asked for his money back - just as Boston Bowl security happened on the scene.
By adamg - 1/20/14 - 11:22 pm
Boston Police report a delivery man from the Fields Corner Domino's was stuck up around 7:30 p.m. on Saturday on East Cottage Street:
By adamg - 1/20/14 - 11:21 am
Boston Police report the man found dead at the scene of an apparent armed home invasion on Esmond Street was Jordan Chinapoo, 20, of Roxbury
Police say Chinapoo and Cedric Slayden, 18, tried busting into an apartment at 85 Esmond St., last Wednesday, only to be discover the resident had his own gun - which he used to shoot Chinapoo and force Slayden to flee.
By adamg - 1/20/14 - 10:22 am
State Police and BFD raced up and down 93 to the Dorchester Yacht Club around 10:10 a.m. when a dump truck swerved off I-93 northbound, careened down an embankment and wound up in the water by the yacht club.
They got the driver out; are now figuring out how to get the truck out. Booms were brought in to contain fuel leaking from the truck's tanks.
By adamg - 1/20/14 - 9:46 am
Scott Van Voorhis says all signs point to the imminent yuppification of Dorchester, even though, as he notes a couple of times, it's really a series of "mini neighborhoods," including, at least according to him, Andrew Square. Whatever, young professionals are now getting priced out of Southie, and, God, don't even think about Jamaica Plain, so watch out, Dorchester (next thing you know, somebody's going to propose a fancy wine and cheese shop for Dot Ave. Oh, wait ...).
By adamg - 1/20/14 - 8:29 am
Da Mat, 80 Glenway St., shortly after 8 a.m.
The suspect is described as black, about 5'8" and 170 lbs., early 20s, wearing a black hoodie and black pants and speaking with what might be a Jamaican accent. He fled toward Fowler.
By adamg - 1/16/14 - 5:17 pm
Boston Police report arresting a man who tried to rob a bank well after it was closed.
By adamg - 1/16/14 - 1:52 pm
A Dorchester District Court judge set bail of $50,000 today for Cedrick Slayden, 18, arrested yesterday after an alleged failed home invasion that left another man dead.
But Judge James Coffey revoked Slayden's bail on an outstanding charge of larcenty for allegedly stealing a man's iPhone in the North End last May, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. The ruling means that even if Slayden could make the new bail, he'd stay locked up at least until the larceny case was dealt with.
By adamg - 1/16/14 - 10:20 am
This morning at 1096 Blue Hill Ave.
Suspects are described as four very thin Hispanic males, two of whom ran down Blue Hill Avenue toward Morton Street. The other two were in a red vehicle that police stopped on Blue Hill Avenue and who are now being questioned.
By adamg - 1/16/14 - 7:16 am
The Globe reports the French consul in Boston visited the Codman Academy Charter Public School to tell students his gouvernment will only stop warning its citoyens to avoid Dorchester when it becomes safe.
But le dude said it could be done: He noted France no longer warns people to avoid the Combat Zone.
By adamg - 1/15/14 - 9:06 pm
Stanley Staco reports the man was shot around 8:55 p.m. at 955 Blue Hill Ave.
He may have been fired at eight times.
Police are looking for a man in a gray hoodie and sweatpants, who ran to Donald Road and got into a silver Impala - which then sped away.
By adamg - 1/15/14 - 3:02 pm
THURSDAY UPDATE: The Licensing Board granted the request for a beer and wine license.
The Boston Licensing Board could vote Thursday whether to let a shuttered Vietnamese market on Dorchester Avenue be turned into an upscale shop selling everything a young professional could need for a dinner party - from wine and gourmet cheeses to self-service olive oil and home-made peanut butter.
By adamg - 1/14/14 - 2:01 pm
When Det. William Gallagher of the BPD's licensed premises unit finds very young looking people drinking in a bar and they hand over licenses that seem to show they're over 21, he likes to ask them questions on the information on the cards. Such as what their Zip code is.
By adamg - 1/13/14 - 2:07 pm
The Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative has picked five finalists for its proposed Uphams Corner ArtPlace - which will tie into the expanded and renovated Fairmount Line. See the proposals and the artists.
Ed. note: I helped build the Web pages that introduce the finalists - which is how I learned about the project.
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