Public Safety
Crime maps
The Reporter's new Crime Maps allow you to track crimes by category and check for trends on a street-by-street basis. Click on each pin-point for more detail on the time, location and type of crime. The data used to generate this map-based tool is supplied to the Reporter by the Boston Police Department (see caveats).
| Auto thefts Assaults Break-ins: Residential Cars Commercial |
Drugs Guns Larceny Motor-vehicle offenses |
Murders Prostitution Robbery Vandalism |
Teen sought for five stabbings
The Boston Police Department is looking for Darius D. Young, 15, whom they say has stabbed five people in two incidents. Read more
Two-alarm fire leaves 13 homeless
The Boston Fire Department reports a two-alarm fire caused by a discarded cigarette forced 13 residents of 11 Althea St. into the cold around 7:30 this morning.
Nobody was injured in the fire, sparked by a cigraette on the third-flooor porch, the department says, adding the fire caused roughly $150,000 in damage.
B-3 Police officer in Prof. Gates controversy is terminated
The Boston Police Department announced today it has terminated Justin Barrett, an Area B-3 officer who sent a mass e-mail last year with racially derogatory terms about Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.
Police Commissioner Ed Davis said in a statement he could not allow somebody like Barrett to remain on the force: Read more
C-11 police issue alert after attempted assault at Shawmut station
Boston Police at Dorchester's Area C-11 issued a "citizen alert" today after a reported indecent assault and battery yesterday (Feb. 3) morning near Shawmut MBTA station. Read more
Police seek man for indecent assault near Shawmut T stop
The Boston Police Department reports it is looking for a man who exposed himself to a woman on Centre Street around 5:30 a.m. Wednesday and then grabbed her buttocks. Read more
Menino blasts decision to allow LNG tanker into harbor
Liquefied natural gas shipments from Yemen, scheduled to pass through Boston Harbor on the way to Everett, have unnerved elected officials, who acknowledged Tuesday they are largely powerless to stop federal ratification of the deliveries. Read more
Late-night fire forces 14 into the cold on Monsignor Lydon Way
The Boston Fire Department reports a third-floor short-circuit caused a two-alarm fire at 55 Monsignor Lydon Way shortly after 11 p.m. on Sunday that injured one firefighter. Read more
Cataloni's appeals shutdown to state
The owners of Cataloni's, 10 Hancock St., have asked the state Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission to overrule the Boston Licensing Board's decision to shut it because of alleged cocaine sales and purchases by customers. Read more
City board vows to shut Uphams Corner bar
The Boston Licensing Board said today it will seek to shut Cataloni's, 10 Hancock St., after police described a Nov. 28 incident in which a woman was arrested inside the bar on charges of selling cocaine to bar patrons. Read more
Man shot to death in Mattapan
Boston Police report officers responded to 60 Goodale Rd. around 5:40 this morning to find a man lying on the ground with a gunshot wound.
He was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he died later in the day. Police are describing him only as black and 22. Read more
