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Man threatening to shoot someone in the South End arrested before he could, police say
By adamg on Mon, 05/09/2016 - 8:20am
Boston Police report arresting a gun-toting man whom security guards had overheard declaiming he was going to shoot somebody before entering a West Dedham Street building Friday night.
Officers were already in the area, checking out a report of a loaded clip just sitting at West Brookline and Aguadilla shortly before 11 p.m. when guards from Longwood Security reported overhearing three guys discussing one of their plans to shoot somebody inside 100 West Dedham, police say.
Officers set up surveillance in hopes of locating the individuals responsible for the threats. In short time, officers observed two individuals who matched the description of the males heard making the earlier threats. When officers approached, one of the individuals refused to stop. Officers further noted that the individual had his hands in his jacket pockets. Given this observation, officers asked the individual to slowly remove his hands from his pockets. When officers asked the suspect if he was in possession of any weapons, officers observed the suspect stiffen up. When officers attempted to conduct a pat frisk of the suspect, the suspect pulled away and attempted to flee the area. After a brief altercation, officers recovered a silver-colored firearm in the suspect's waist area.
Juan Medina, 38, was charged with illegal possession of a firearm, illegal possession of ammunition and resisting arrest. One of his accomplices, Wilfredo Morales, 38, was charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute.
Innocent, etc.
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Hey look at that...
...yet another incident near Villa Victoria.
hey look at that
Another spurious geographic connection in a densely populated area!
Perhaps... but when is the
Perhaps... but the Back Bay and Beacon Hill are also densely populated, and when is the last time you heard of an arrest under the same circumstances in those neighborhoods? It almost never happens.
Maybe its a coincidence that these crimes seem to always be committed in the Villa Victoria area of the South End.
Or, maybe it's because of Villa Victoria.
Correlation doesn't always imply causation, but if I were a betting man, and somehow able to pull up data on Boston crime, I'd put my money on a greater occurrence in the Villa Victoria area.
Excellent police work there
Kudos to the Boston Police and Longwood Security for handling this in such a way as to avoid discharging their firearms and in a way that the suspects did not discharge their firearms either.
It may be a crazy idea but I wonder if we could stop the war on drugs and design a new framework modeled around regulated markets and public health.
Your use of "spurious" is spurious.
That building sits on the plaza featuring this sign:
Say whatever else you want, but his Villa Victoria assessment is factual.
What is villa victoria and
What is villa victoria and why would have a theoretical impact on crime?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquilinos_Boricuas_en_Acci%C3%B3n
So it is an organization
So it is an organization trying to keep whites out of the neighborhood. Wow.
Answered my own question.
Answered my own question. Housing project near which shootings are up and in which the city plans to install more security cameras.
Spurious? Nope.
"Regarding cameras, Boston police Captain Paul Ivens said the city plans to place more of them in the Villa Victoria housing development, a neighborhood complex where Wellington Ruiz, 25, was fatally shot on Dec. 9."
"Boston police Commissioner William B. Evans said many violent crimes are down in the neighborhood and insisted that the area has improved dramatically in recent years, while conceding that “we’re up on the gunshots.”"
The police report really
The police report really calls it a magazine clip? Wow.
Got tons of those
Some of those look like they
Some of those look like they could hold more than 10 letters. I hope they are preban.
Did you really....
call that a police report? Wow.
First 3 words includes a link
First 3 words includes a link
Boston Police report
http://bpdnews.com/news/2016/5/8/one-less-gun-bpd-officers-apprehend-gun...
So yes, that is a police report last I checked.
That looks nothing like a police report, and it isn't.
Adam used the word as a verb, not a noun. But it's ok, it not really a big deal in the grand scheme of things, kind of like confusing a "clip" or a "magazine". We all know what they generally mean.
There are police reports and then there are police reports
Pete is absolutely right: The link does not take you to an official "police report" of the sort that could be produced in court or obtained, in redacted form, on payment of $5 at police headquarters.
However, it is a report. And I'm betting it was, in fact, written by a police officer, since, unlike the previous commissioner, the current commissioner seems to prefer to staff his PR department entirely with actual police officers.
who cares though?
This is like the people who correct "could care less" in casual conversation. Does it matter? If you understand the meaning, language has succeeded. Plenty of more important things to quibble about.
I agree.
Gun people hate when people confuse "magazine" with "clip" though for some reason.
Sure, laugh
Sure, laugh if you want but getting shot in the south end can be pretty painful.