What a spring! First we get hit with back-to-back cyclones that left many of us with unwanted basement wading pools. Then, of course, the water main break in Weston that had us all boiling water just to brush our Chicklets. Also, no coffee!! For three days we at the resort known as C-11 were responding to calls dealing with usually healthy people who were either suffering from a caffeine depreciation headache, constipation, or both. Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink. Well I’m glad to see we all made it through this latest ordeal. Just to balance the scales I wouldn’t be surprised if we suffer from a summer-long drought. Now a few reports on some local drips.
March 12, 6:20 p.m.
Detectives from the C-11 Drug Control unit were sitting in their unmarked cruiser in the bank parking lot at Richmond Street at Dorchester Avenue. While enjoying their dinner break and people watching, they observed a gray Infinity driven by a 21-year-old, near-sighted, Milton dolt enter the lot. He exited the vehicle, made a quick cell phone call, scanned the lot, then made a beeline for the detectives cruiser and hopped into the back seat.
Immediately the nimrod realized he was in the wrong car, stated “I’m sorry,” and just as quickly hopped back out of the cruiser. He headed back to his own car where he met up with a second young man and they both left the lot in the nimrod’s car. The detectives, sensing that this was too good to be true, followed them, from a distance, throughout several Lower Mills side streets, eventually stopping on Huntoon Street. As the detectives approached the Infinity they could smell burning marijuana and observed a clear plastic container containing a brown/green vegetable matter on the console. Further investigation revealed nine large plastic heat-sealed bags filled with the stuff. On being arrested, the suspect complained to the detectives “I would have made $1,000 for the stuff you guys took.” Poor baby. Maybe you should invest in some glasses? He was charged with Distribution of a Class D substance within a school zone.
March 5, 7:14 p.m.
Some kids you can’t get to go to school at all, but this 15-year-old honor student loved learning so much that he broke in long after the day’s lessons had been taught. Officers responded to a radio call for a report of a Breaking & Entering in progress at the Woodrow Wilson School. On arrival they met the school’s janitor, who stated that he had observed three young males inside one of the classrooms that contained the school’s laptops, some of which were piled up outside the door. The suspects fled on foot – and with one of the computers — down Mercier Avenue towards the Ashmont MBTA station. Three suspects were stopped inside the station. The janitor could only identify the one with a backpack, and, lo and behold, inside the bag was the stolen laptop. Back at the shool, a second suspect’s learner’s permit was found at the scene and he, too, was charged with Breaking and Entering in the night time.
April 9, 12:41 a.m.
Officers while on routine patrol in the area of Rosseter Street observed the doors to a BMW open and a little gnome-like goblin walking hurriedly away. The officers stopped the suspect and found in his pockets car keys, rolls of coins, and a lighter all taken from three vehicles that had been broken into. The 4-foot, 10-inch, 95-pound little SOB was arrested for B&E Motor Vehicle. Hey, mom, it’s 12:46 at night; do you know where your 11-year-old is? That’s right, 11.
April 14, 11:29 a.m.
Officers assigned to the C-1 plainclothes unit observed an 18-year-old Dorchester B&E man pedaling a bike down Adams Street towards Fields Corner. The man stopped his bike, looked directly at the officers, and started laughing. He couldn’t point and laugh because of what the officers noticed: the blue duffle bag he was holding over his shoulder with a large object inside, to wit, a box sticking out of the top of the bag. They asked the numbskull, “What’s that?” He responded: “I just bought this off of a crackhead down at Ashmont Station.” The object was, in fact, a brand new flat screen television. They placed him under arrest for receiving stolen property and his laugh quickly subsided. Ok, now, everyone on the count of three: Point and laugh.
Next meeting is tonight.
Now a little bit of house cleaning. Our next C-11 Community Meeting is tonight, May 13, at 7 at the Senior Center at 350 Ashmont Street (corner of Florida Street) and our guest speakers will be from the Firearms Analysis Unit and will tie in with the three former speakers from Prints, Forensics, and the Crime Lab. Also, the Public Service Counter at Headquarters at Schroeder Plaza has extended its hours on Tuesdays until 6 p.m for anyone needing licenses, permits, copies or reports, etc. Please take notice.
