An irate citizen files a 311 complaint about the parking situation at Joseph Agri and Rev. Burke streets in South Boston: Read more.
Old Colony
Boston Police tonight are painting a different picture of the conditions inside an apartment at 381 Old Colony Ave. in which they found a dead body Saturday morning than the one that had percolated in the local media and prompted condemnations by, among others, City Councilors Ed Flynn and Michael Flaherty. Read more.
A man who allegedly wheeled both his daughter and a shotgun in a stroller on his way to sell the weapon at the Mary Ellen McCormack development and a man charged with selling heroin and fentanyl there were arrested on federal charges yesterday as part of a South Boston crackdown that documents filed in court suggest could result in more arrests. Read more.
Boston Police report a man was shot shortly after midnight at Patterson Way and Rev. Burke Street in the Old Colony development. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Shortly after 10:45 p.m. in the area of E. 9 and Mercer streets in the Old Colony project.
Around 7:50 p.m. at Rev. Burke and Dorchester streets in the Old Colony project. The victim then ran away, towards Telegraph Street; police found him near Dorchester Street.
The BRA yesterday approved a $56.8-million redo of the the Old Colony housing project that will replace the current post-war project with a new six-story building and a series of townhouses.
The Massachusetts Court of Appeals today threw out the criminal-trespassing conviction of a man who'd invited into a Boston Housing Authority building by a tenant.
Gregory Nelson, who'd been barred from the Old Colony project in South Boston following an arrest for possession of a dangerous weapon, was arrested again on April 25, 2007, when two housing cops spotted him in a hallway - right next to a large "No Trespassing" sign.
Testimony showed he was there at the invitation of a friend who lived in the building after a night out. And the court noted that the BHA's own leases and police rules state that while a barred person cannot just enter a BHA building and wander around, "a resident does have the right to invite any individual not barred by a restraining order as a guest."
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