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Feds, Boston cops team up to get illegal guns off streets: Tiny but potent Taurus pistols key focus of search
Jan. 5, 2011
As the city struggles to contain a dramatic spike in gun violence, 18 handguns bought through an illegal straw purchase in Georgia in 2009 are believed to have wound up on the streets of Boston. So far two of the 18 handguns have been recovered by Boston Police officers, but, according to investigators the others are believed to be hidden here.
Handgun: Taurus describes its PT145 model this way: “Light, powerful and technically advanced, the Millennium PRO is the choice for concealment and back-up carry.”The handguns, all Taurus pistols and revolvers are preferred by gangbangers and street criminals because their deadly-powerful punch and their small size make it very easy to conceal.
The guns were bought, law enforcement officials say, over a two-month period in 2009 by two men whose criminal records prevented them from making the purchases personally; instead, they paid “straws,” in this case two women, to buy the weapons for them. According to a federal indictment handed down last month in Atlanta, the transactions took place without a hitch, and within weeks the guns were wreaking havoc on the streets of Boston. Read more
Firefighter injured at two-alarm fire
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After the fire. Photo by BFD.
A short circuit in a second-floor bedroom caused a two-alarm fire Saturday morning at 101 Maxwell St., the Boston Fire Department reports.
No residents were injured in the fire, reported around 9:40 a.m., but one firefighter was taken to Carney Hospital with a head injury, the department says. Damage was estimated at $200,000.
Mattapan man charged with stabbing in his own apartment
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Jimmy Ammons, 50, was arraigned today in Dorchester District Court on charges he plunged a knife into a woman in his apartment at 884 Cummins Highway yesterday morning.
The woman, 31, is recovering today at Boston Medical Center from a single stab wound so severe a doctor told a Boston Police detective at one point he expected her to die within 20 minutes, Assistant District Attorney Megan O’Rourke told Judge Rosalind Miller. "There was a lot of blood," O'Rourke said. "It was a very gory crime scene - there was blood everywhere." Read more
Police seek suspects in trolley attack ‘hate crime’
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Suspect #2 in trolley attack: Captured on surveillance video at Butler Street station on Monday. MBTA Police imageMBTA police are investigating a Monday night attack of a man riding the Mattapan trolley as a possible anti-gay hate crime.
The incident took place at 10:30 p.m. on Monday night as the 48 year-old male victim was a passenger on a Mattapan-bound high-speed trolley in the vicinity of Butler Street station. According to MBTA Police, the two men “assaulted the victim while berating him with racial and homophobic slurs.” The two suspects— who have not yet been identified or caught— allegedly tried to pull the victim off the trolley to continue the assault. Read more
Man charged with Christmas shooting while out on bail for attempted shooting
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The Boston Police Department reports arresting a Randolph man on charges he shot somebody on Christmas morning, three months after he was arrested on charges he tried to shoot somebody else. Read more
Police: Man tired of Greenwood School parents stopping in front of his driveway threatens one with a rifle
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The Boston Police Department reports arresting a Greenwood Street resident who'd finally snapped at all the parents who stop in front of his driveway to pick up kids at the school across the street.
According to police, a father of a Greenwood School student pulled up in front of Henry Perry's house at 136 Greenwood St. around 3:30 p.m. yesterday. Read more
Jesus statue vandalized on Columbia Rd.; police hope witness will come forward
Jan. 26, 2012
Vandalized statue on Columbia Rd.A statue of Jesus outside of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta parish on Columbia Road was destroyed by a vandal on Sunday morning. Rev. Jack Ahern, pastor of the church, said the vandal struck at 3 a.m. Sunday, leaving the statue without a head.
Boston Police are investigating the incident, but say they need help from a mystery witness, who called police to the scene on Sunday and then left before police could speak to them further. Police say they have a potential suspect in the crime, but without the witness' help, they may not be able to make an arrest.
Ahern said the statue had been toppled from its pedestal. The statue had once sat outside St. William Church on Dorchester Ave., but was re-located in 2009 after that church was closed. Read more
DA: King Street man nabbed with large ammo cache, bullet-proof vest
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Boston Police executing a search warrant at an alleged drug dealer's 30 King St. home found more than just drugs, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office: They also picked up a Ruger P345 .45 caliber semiautomatic handgun loaded with eight rounds, a BSA laser sight, a bulletproof vest; 47 live shotgun shells and almost 300 rounds of ammunition in calibers ranging from .22 to .45 in Sarro's bedroom. Read more
Two-alarm fire erupts just steps from firehouse
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27-29 Gallivan Blvd. Photo by BFD.
A fire reported around 1 p.m. on Saturday in a two-family house at 25-27 Gallivan Blvd. quickly went to two alarms.
The Boston Fire Department reports the fire - just steps from the fire station at Gallivan Boulevard and Morton Street, was knocked down around 1:30 p.m., after doing roughly $300,000 in damage. The cause of the blaze, which apparently started in a second-floor bedroom, is now under investigation, the department says.
One resident was taken to a local hospital with smoke inhalation. A total of six residents are now homeless.
Man charged with Grove Hall stabbing
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The Boston Police Department reports arresting Melvin Wright, 28, on charges he sent another man to Boston Medical Center with multiple life-threatening stab wounds shortly before midnight on Wednesday. Read more
