An 18-year-old man from Dorchester is facing first-degree murder charges after he allegedly stabbed a 19-year-old man to death in a Brockton home early on Jan. 4. Jayden Fernandez was arraigned Monday in Brockton District Court for allegedly killing Kyre Ambrose, who was attacked in the basement of his mother’s residence just before 2 a.m. on Saturday morning, according to the Brockton Enterprise. The victim was a graduate of Boston Arts Academy and has been featured in Reporter articles as a dancer and performer since his childhood years.

The Enterprise reported that Ambrose was stabbed 28 times. Fernandes was ordered held without bail at his arraignment after his arrest on Sunday in the parking lot of a Newton hospital, where he had sought treatment for an injury to his hand, according to media reports.

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A woman who was listed on the BPD’s “most wanted” list recently was arrested on Monday at an Ashmont Street residence, along with a man who was also sought by police for outstanding warrants, including illegal gun charges. Members of the Youth Violence Task Force took Henry Barboza into custody around 1:40 p.m. at 348 Ashmont St. According to a BPD account, Barboza was accompanied in the apartment by 45-year-old Josephine Simard, who was wanted on “nine active warrants,” including larceny and credit card fraud charges. Police also confiscated a firearm during their sweep of the residence. Barboza will face a new charge for the gun and ammunition they found at the scene, police said.

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A 51-year-old man who was allegedly selling bootleg cigarettes and marijuana out of his car behind the Stop & Shop on Blue Hill Avenue in Grove Hall was arrested on Saturday after police found he was also carrying an unlicensed handgun. Police say Manestreem Fourty-Four “resisted by pushing an officer and attempting to flee in his vehicle” before he was taken into custody

Police say they decided to crack down because of “numerous complaints from local residents about drug activity and the illicit sale of unstamped cigarettes in the area, which negatively impacted the community and nearby businesses,” and that they watched Fourty-Four exchange cigs for cash on both Friday and Saturday. Suffolk County Probate Court records show the Department of Revenue has been wrangling with him over child support since at least 2003.

A text to delete with a swift sweep
Over the last couple of days, people all over the city have gotten fraudulent texts, said to be from “the city of Boston,” that they have a small unpaid “parking invoice” and that unless they go to the link in the text they will be charged “a late fees of 35$.” Alert readers will note some obvious immediate problems with the text: It comes from a non-617 number, it features sloppy grammar, Americans would never write “35$” and the link seems kind of odd for a Boston city agency (also, but more obscurely, Boston does not issue “parking invoices”).

–UNIVERSAL HUB