Public Safety
A man originally charged with breaking into a North End church is now charged with stealing from seven churches across the city, including two in Dorchester.
The Boston Police Department on Monday charged Richard Shiner, 44, with breaking into All Saints... Read more
It's not easy running a business out of your home these days. Just ask Michael "Muscle Mike" Williams.
For the past year, the wholesaler had been forced to deal with suppliers who were either out of the products he needed or shipped him inferior goods -... Read more
A Reporter story published last month after a multi-week probe into the operation of so-called sober homes in the city raises important policy questions that demand answers from the industry and from our city and state governments. The report— done in... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a man was shot around 5:30 p.m. at 21 Crowell St. on the Dorchester/Mattapan line.
The 36-year-old man was taken to Boston Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police say.
He is Dorchester's 30th murder victim... Read more
The Boston Police Department reports a livery driver who picked up two guys at 113 Greenbrier St. yesterday afternoon for a trip to Mattapan had just turned onto Hazleton Street when "one of the suspects put what he thought was a gun to the back of his... Read more
A homeless man was arraigned Friday on charges he helped steal a Dorchester pizza guy's car Wednesday night, then promptly flipped it onto its side two blocks away, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Edward Corbett, 19, was ordered... Read more
To the Editor:
After reading the editorial in the Dorchester Reporter entitled “Answers needed on police protocol at crime scenes,” I concluded that the editorial contained unfair criticism directed at the Boston Police Homicide Unit.
The editorial... Read more
Dwayne Moore, 33, was arrested today for the Sept. 28 murders of three adults and one child on Woolson Street in Mattapan, Boston Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office announced.
Moore was charged with killing Levaughn Washum-Garrison,... Read more
Boston police officers trying to stop a deranged man with a pellet gun who'd stolen a police cruiser should have called in a mental-health professional rather than shooting him dead, his widow argues in a lawsuit filed last week.
Marquis Barker, 37, was... Read more
Ed Davis, the commissioner of the Boston Police Department, said last Friday that his command staff will investigate how the body of a 19-year-old murder victim was left undiscovered in a Mascot Street driveway for more than two days following a shooting... Read more
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