Boston Police report an 85-year-old nun was robbed inside Mission Church on Mission Hill Friday afternoon as she was paying for a dinner.
The thief, police say, grabbed her money when she put it down on a counter.
The suspect was described as Hispanic, in his late 30s, 5'5" to 5'7" with a slim build, dark hair - at least, what was left of it - and clad in a black leather jacket. Police add:
The victim who was in mass, refused to speak to officers until mass was finished.
Boston Police report they are looking for whoever smashed through a 100-year-old stained-glass window at Mission Church to steal the contents of two poor boxes.
The break, reported this morning at the Tremont Street basilica, meant the loss of $200 to $300 in donations, along with the cost of repairing the window and a small window inside the church, which was also broken, police say.
Michael Ratty photographs the tons of news trucks that are already there.
What is it about Mission Church that makes the out-of-town kiddies want to break into it? For the second time in seven months, police report arresting young'uns for breaking into a building at the Mission Church complex. This time, it was seven people, between 19 and 22, allegedly spotted breaking into a church building on Smith Street shortly after 10 last night. Six of the seven came out only after the police yelled they were going to sic a K-9 on them; the seventh later turned herself into police.
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