Public Safety
Boston Police report finding a man lying in front of 85 Draper St. with gunshot wounds around 7:25 p.m. yesterday.
Benjamin Martins, 30, of Dorchester, was transported to Boston Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
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The Boston Police Department reports finding Troy Robinson and his two-year-old nephew on the 700 block of Washington Street tonight.
Robinson will be charged with kidnapping, police said, adding the toddler was brought to a local hospital for evaluation... Read more
The federal government has started procedings to take control of a Dorchester house it says two brothers built to become the center of a family drug ring that was broken up with a series of arrests in 2007.
The government says it will sell off 59... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man was fatally shot around 4 a.m. on Saturday in front of 19 Floyd St.
The man, a black male in his early 20s, was rushed to Boston Medical Center, where he died several hours later.
Police say the man was lying in... Read more
The Boston Fire Department reports Pat Foley was a block away from the Engine 21 firehouse in Dorchester this morning when he noticed a fire in an apartment building 40 Sumner St. around 7 a.m. Foley called in the fire, then raced into the building and... Read more
A Suffolk Superior Court jury today convicted Steven Odegard of first-degree murder for the death of Daniel Yakovleff in Odegard's Tuttle Street apartment on Jan. 17, 2008, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office announced.
OdegardThe conviction... Read more
UPDATE: The two were ordered held without bail this morning.
Onyx White, 16, and Martin Freeles, 17, were arrested today and charged with the murder of Geraldo Serrano at the Hermanos Unidos store on Dudley Street Sunday morning.
Both will be tried as... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a 71-year-old clerk at Hermanos Unidos, 728 Dudley St. was shot to death around 10:30 a.m. on Sunday morning.
The police say witnesses saw two men go into the shop and that "once inside, weapons were displayed and... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports two people werre shot around 2:45 this morning at 21 Levant St.
A man in his 20s was found there and taken to Brigham and Women's Hospital with non life threatening injuries. The second victim, a woman in her late... Read more
The Boston Fire Department reports a child playing with matches at 24-26 Hopkins St. started a fire around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday that did an estimated $75,000 damage.
None of the occupants of the three apartments were injured, but the department says a... Read more
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