Some things never change: Beat goes on in District 11

They say that change is a good thing. They say that change is inevitable. Look around our great city and you’ll see change all over. Been to the Boston waterfront the last 15 years? Now that’s some change, my friend.

Change is also coming to the so-called “inner city” too. You can see it physically with the new construction going up all around us and you can hear it in people’s philosophies.

For example, there have been several instances of playgrounds being moved or reconfigured (i.e., removal of basketball courts) yet we embrace dog parks. Fewer kids, more dogs.

An obvious sign of change for me in my hometown was when a quarter of the Old Colony project was torn down. Of course, I just had to go in and grab a brick to keep, to remind me of where I grew up. But as much as our environment changes, there will always be us – the law-abiding citizens – and them – the law-breakers. Here are a couple of stories concerning the latter:

Jan. 15, 10:50 p.m.
Boston officers were assisting our brother officers from the State Police in the area of Centre Street and Dorchester Avenue, looking for a suspect wanted in a Milton hit-and-run. It was then that they observed two Dorchester teens emerge from a backyard that the officers knew the kids had no rightful business being in. After checking their story and knowing that the staties had caught their man, the officers told the teen-agers to leave the area.

Ten minutes later, officers spotted the two walking down Allston Street, but this time the younger one, a 17-year-old Dorchester youth, was walking with a very pronounced limp. He also was holding his left hand firmly against the side of his jeans.

The officers alighted from their cruiser and demanded the suspect put his hands in the air and he promptly put up his right one, keeping the left tight against his body. He was quickly brought to the ground by Officer Medina, who could feel the butt end of a rifle sticking out of the suspect’s pants. After cuffing the suspect, the officers removed a Browning bolt action .22 caliber rifle with a scope. The weapon was reported stolen in September of 2010 in Auburn. Bronco Billy was arrested for carrying a rifle on a public way and receiving stolen property.

Jan. 11, 6:15 p.m.
Detectives Duran and Moy were driving by the CVS at Hallet Street and Gallivan Boulevard when they saw two men run out of the business and enter a grey Mercedes. The detectives pulled over and watched as one of the men emptied the contents of the bags in the back seat of the Benz, then re-entered the store only to come back out a minute later with another bag full of unknown items.

The Mercedes then took off up the boulevard with the detectives following close behind. The car pulled into the Rite-Aid lot in Adams Village and one of the men entered the store while the other one stood watch outside. A short time later the second suspect came back out to the car and they left the lot. The detectives and a marked unit pulled the vehicle over at Dorchester Avenue and Dracut Street and the two suspects fled on foot, but being 42 and 47 years old, they were quickly apprehended.

Back at the Mercedes, officers found 19 bottles of Tide detergent taken from the CVS. Hopefully a judge will give them both some time to clean up their act.

Sorry couldn’t help it.

Jan. 12, 4:45 p.m.
This is an original. Officers responded to a home near the Ashmont MBTA for a report of an armed robbery. On arrival the officers spoke to the reluctant victim who stated that he solicited the help of two men about 20 years of age to help him shovel snow. Once the task was completed he invited Cheech and Chong into his home to pay off the agreed amount of weed. But one of the men pulled out a .38 caliber handgun and demanded all 22 ounces of the stuff. The suspects were last seen skipping along Ashmont Street. The “victim” doesn’t want to pursue the matter any further. I wonder why?

Jan. 30, 3:30 a.m.
Plainclothes officers Moynihan and Crowley saw a 41-year-old Braintree woman standing at the corner of King Street and Dorchester Avenue looking for the company of lonely men with $30 to give away.

One of them went back to C-11, got into his own vehicle (a minivan), and drove up the avenue where the woman was waiting for her next “date.” She waved the officer over, got in and instructed him to drive to Parkman and Sturtevant Streets “so the cops won’t find us.”

Boy, does she have a big surprise coming to her. Once on Parkman Street, she negotiated her price and told the officer “to make it quick.” Believe me, it ended before it began, as she was told of the officer’s true identity. She was charged with Sex for a Fee.

Stay tuned for next week’s annual Rorie Awards.