Public Safety
A federal judge last week sentenced NOB gang leader Michael "G Fredo" Brandao, 22, to nine years in prison for his guilty plea to RICO charges.
Federal prosecutors had asked for 12 years, saying that even after Brandao was arrested as part of a gang sweep... Read more
Diustin Cruz, the owner of La Parrilla, 299 Hancock St. in Dorchester, didn't appear at a licensing hearing Tuesday on a triple shooting early on Oct. 30 in what police say was an illegal after-hours club, where customers could order an entire bottle of... Read more
A Dorchester man faces a federal murder-for-hire charge after he allegedly paid a hit man who was really an FBI agent the first $500 installment for killing his estranged wife, who had kicked him out of their home, and her boyfriend.
Mohammed Chowdhury,... Read more
Jan. 1 is typically a busy day at the city’s only public waterfront amenity, as scores of “Brownies” brave what are normally frigid temps to take a New Year’s plunge into Dorchester Bay. But this year’s traditional swim won’t have the benefit of using the... Read more
Owen Thomas lives in Savin Hill with his wife Hilary and their two children, ages 4 and 1. Last Friday morning, as a wind-driven rainstorm hit the coast in the middle of high tide, Thomas carried his kayak— designed to navigate whitewater rivers— to... Read more
A man was repeatedly at Franklin Hill Avenue and Shandon Road in Dorchester around 11 p.m. on Friday, the Boston Police Department reports.
Michael Collins, Jr., 18, of Dorchester, was taken to a local hospital, where he died, police say.
On Nov. 9, a... Read more
Two men were arraigned this morning in connection to the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy on a Dorchester street last summer.
Curtis Ashford was fatally injured when a gunman— allegedly Zontre Mack, 19, of Canton— pulled up in a car and opened fire on... Read more
Two men and a woman were arrested earlier this week during a raid on a River Street apartment in which federal, state and local investigators found 100 pounds of fentanyl powder and pills, three industrial pill-press machines and numerous sealed Priority... Read more
A recent guest speaker at Madison Park Vocational and Technical High School had two 9mm firearms stolen out of his personal car while it was parked on school property.
On the date of the incident, Friday, Nov. 18, the car was parked in the Madison Park... Read more
A federal judge this week sentenced Omari Peterson, 39, to 66 months in federal prison following his guilty plea to one count of possession of cocaine and crack with intent to distribute and and two counts of being a felon in possession of firearms and... Read more
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