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Tumerrick Brown, 22, of Dorchester, was arrested by the BPD’s Youth Violence Strike Force at about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. After officers placed him under arrest, police say, two dogs inside the house attacked the arresting officer and bit him several times.
A 21-year-old Dorchester man was arrested last Friday on charges connected to a shooting incident last summer that disrupted the graduation at Charlestown High School. Austilino Pereira was taken into custody by officers attached to the BPD’s Youth Violence Strike Force and later arraigned for several gun violations, including “discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a
At least 11 people were hurt in a series of shootings in Boston over the July Fourth weekend, including four men who were wounded in an incident on Bailey Street near Ashmont station that took place shortly after midnight on Monday. Three victims were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening wounds. One of those three was later found to have been injured by shards of
Boston Police, in particular the department’s BPD Youth Violence Strike Force, were kept very busy over a 90-minute stretch on the Monday holiday dealing with two instances of firearms-related activity, one of which involved unruly crowd behavior At about 4:30 p.m., members of the Strike Force arrested Donta Lewis, 28, of Boston, and Lamont Jacobs-Barrows, 21, of Walpole, on
Two teenage boys have been arrested as a result of an investigation into the shooting of a teacher and student outside TechBoston Academy.