A homeless man with a penchant for stomping other homeless men is charged with beating a 43-year-old homeless man on May 18.
Dennis Connolly, 54, was ordered held earlier this week in lieu of $5,000 on the charge, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office. Even if he managed to raise the money, Connolly would remain bars pending trial because a Boston Municipal Court judge revoked his bail in another case, the DA's office says.
Dennis Connolly, also known as the Stomper for his alleged prediliction for stomping other homeless men, was found not guilty of threatening a police officer yesterday.
The jury deadlocked on the issue of whether Connolly used a box cutter to threaten a South Boston store clerk who allegedly found him shoplifting in April. The Suffolk County District Attorney's office said it will re-try Connolly on the charge, in a trial scheduled for March 10.
Connolly remains in jail, held in lieu of $1,000 cash bail.
Dennis Connolly, the homeless guy whom police say likes to stomp on other homeless people, is scheduled for trial this morning on charges he used a box cutter to rob a South Boston convenience store and then threatened a cop earlier this year, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.
Connolly allegedly flashed a box cutter at a clerk the Store 24 on West Broadway on April 29 when the clerk tried to stop him from shoplifting. When arrested, he allegedly told a booking officer:
Bostonist this morning has had this to say about Dennis Connolly, the so-called Stomper (update: see the comment below about the post being deleted):
Not surprisingly, Connoly killed one of the witnesses to the first murder outside St. Anthony's Shrine on Arch Street on August 13.
Actually, it is surprising, since the very Herald story used as the source of the above post notes that Connolly has not yet even been charged with the Aug.
Spare Change News, the newspaper by and for homeless people, says the Herald erred in making a connection between "the Stomper" (the allegedly violent homeless guy with a predeliction for stomping other homeless people) and the recent death of a homeless man in Downtown Crossing. Mark reposts Spare Change News's article (and gets a comment from a Herald editor dismissing the Spare Change News report):
HERALD SPREADS FALSE PANIC AMONG HOMELESS PEOPLE
Dennis Connolly didn't kill Steven Neiber, witnesses tell SCN ...
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