Register To ParticipateHomicide victim identified as Perkins art teacher
The victim of the apparent homicide in an Oak Square home Tuesday has been identified as Terri Werner, 56, of Middleborough, Mass. Werner was an art teacher at the Perkins School for the Blind where the suspect in her homicide, Luis Marquez, worked and from where he graduated in 2002.
Robbery, stabbing
Around 10:30 p.m. last night, D-14 police responded to Kingsley Street for a person stabbed. A victim told police he was robbed while walking on Western Ave., according to reports. A second victim who had allegedly been stabbed and robbed by one of the two suspects was found. Two suspects were arrested, with D-14 and [...]
Public safety alert
The following just in from D-14 police:
In that past two weeks there have been five street robberies of residents in the Commonwealth Ave area, from Washington Street to Chestnut Hill Ave. and specifically the Wallingford / Leamington Street area.
The crimes are taking place in the early hours of the evening and target individuals walking [...]
Man loitering outside school
This is scary! (From this week’s police log)
Man in fedora at Jackson Mann
Administrators from the Jackson Mann School at 500 Cambridge St., Brighton, contacted police after they noticed a 5-foot 8, black Hispanic male in his mid-40s, wearing a fedora and a long wool coat lurking outside the school on the mornings of April 3 [...]
Serial mugger targets college women?
That’s what Boston University police are saying according to this Boston Herald article.
Suspicious device incident cleared
The bomb squad has determined that the suspicious device reported outside 430 Washington St. was not explosive.
Suspicious device outside 430 Washington St.
The bomb squad is investigating a report of a suspicious device outside 430 Washington St (Brighton Laundry & Dry Cleaners)
The area is cordoned off and EMS is on standby.
Check back for details.
Two stabbed at I-Hop
Boston police say one man was stabbed in the hand and the other was stabbed in the abdomen at the IHOP restaurant on Soldiers Field Road just after 5 p.m., WBZ-TV reports.
Stolen underwear?
Come on! Were these thieves planning on actually wearing this! That’s disgusting. From this week’s police log:
A 24-year-old woman reported that 10 bras and all of her underwear were stolen from a laundry facility at 219 Harvard Ave. around 7 p.m. on Jan. 8 while the victim went home to get more laundry. The victim [...]
Two years jail for burn suspect
The man suspected of setting a woman on fire at an Allston party in April 2005 has been sentenced to 2.5 years in jail for witness intimidation after threatening her life (he was found not guilty of setting her on fire, though). A story is coming shortly.
Update: Here’s that story.
Five stabbings reported overnight
Boston Police report two men were found stabbed just after midnight and three more people were stabbed about three hours later
Perv alert
It seems a Peeping Tom has been lurking near Allston Village. From this week’s police log:
A resident of 1242 Commonwealth Ave. reported that she saw a man standing on a bucket to look into a first-floor window of the building while masturbating around 1:45 a.m. on Dec. 31. The witness yelled out the window and [...]
Where’s my cone?
Today’s Boston Globe had a story about Mayor Menino cracking down on the infamous practice of reserving an on-street parking space in South Boston with a cone or piece of furniture.
While I haven’t seen many lawn chairs reserving spots in A-B over the last week, we did have the following entry in this week’s police [...]
Fake cop
Sadly, impostors posing as police officers are not that uncommon in A-B. Similar incidents to the one below, reported in this week’s cop log, have happened before:
A 25-year-old Brighton resident reported that a man posing as a police officer robbed him of cash and electronics on Dec. 23. The man was inside his Leicester Street [...]
“Billy is home!”
It seems like almost every week, a break-in is thwarted because the resident wakes up and the thief gets spooked. Take the following entry from this week’s police log:
A 28-year-old man reported to police that his Saybrook Street home was broken into around 2 p.m. on Dec. 5. The victim was sleeping in his bedroom [...]
Robbing the blind
Police arrested two people after they allegedly stole a bankcard from an 82-year-old blind woman and drained her bank account to buy milk and Air Jordan sneakers.
Arniya Smith, 22, of 50 Whipple St., Lowell and Dennis King, 24, of 11 Waumbeck St., Dorchester, were arrested and charged with larceny by scheme over $250 of a [...]
Another Brighton bank robbery
Police are searching for a man who escaped with $650 after allegedly robbing a bank in Brighton Center on Friday, Nov. 23. It was the third bank heist in Brighton in a week.
According to police, a man entered the Mercantile Bank at 423 Washington St. at 3:30 p.m., passed a note to the bank teller, [...]
