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By adamg - 8/21/24 - 10:10 pm

A Randolph man was ordered held because he couldn't come up with $5,000 bail at his arraignment Monday on charges he had something to do with the shooting and moped robbery of a man on Geneva Avenue at Westville Street shortly before 2:20 a.m. on Saturday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. Read more.

By adamg - 5/7/24 - 3:14 pm

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a developer's plans to build 26 affordable condos on three city-owned vacant lots on Geneva Avenue, between Olney and Everton streets, and a fourth vacant lot on Eunice Street in Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 3/26/24 - 3:05 pm

A South Boston man was arrested yesterday for his alleged role in the murder of Curtis Effee, 41, outside a Geneva Avenue apartment on Dec. 30. Read more.

By adamg - 2/17/24 - 1:04 pm

Boston Police report officers who stopped a man for running a red light at Bowdoin Street and Geneva Avenue in Dorchester around 3:35 a.m. arrested him after noticing he was packing what turned out to be a gun loaded with 15 bullets. Read more.

By adamg - 2/14/24 - 4:01 pm

A pedestrian was taken away in critical condition after being hit by Engine 24 on Bowdoin Street near Geneva Avenue in Dorchester around 12:25 p.m.

Two ambulances were summoned to the scene, one for the victim and one for firefighters on the truck, which is based in Grove Hall.

By adamg - 12/30/23 - 11:33 am

Victim identified at Curtis Effee, 41.

Boston Police report a man was shot at 417 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester around 12:50 a.m. Read more.

By adamg - 10/13/23 - 10:20 am

Boston Police report arresting men from Dedham and Mattapan on gun charges at Geneva Avenue and Bowdoin Street in Dorchester after gang-unit officers spotted one of them tossing something out of their car and then noticed the car seemed to have excessively tinted windows. Read more.

By adamg - 7/25/23 - 3:08 pm
Cristofanes Mendes

Photos via BPD.

Update: Suspect arrested.

Boston Police report they are looking for Cristofanes Mendes, 33, on charges of kidnapping and auto theft for an incident in which he got into a couple's vehicle at Geneva Avenue and Leroy Street in Dorchester, drove off, then returned to drop off their 2-year-old son before speeding off again. Read more.

By adamg - 7/15/23 - 3:59 pm
Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD

Surveillance photos of suspect via BPD.

Update: Suspect arrested.

Boston Police report they are looking for the guy they say stole a couple's pickup at Geneva Avenue and Leroy Street in Dorchester yesterday afternoon with their two-year-old child still inside. Read more.

By adamg - 3/14/23 - 12:28 pm
Rendering of proposed 120 Bowdoin St.

Rendering by McDougal Architects.

The Zoning Board of Appeal today approved a 38-unit apartment building at 120 Bowdoin St. at Geneva Avenue in Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 12/22/22 - 10:03 am

Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury woman on charges she stabbed another woman in the stomach during a fight at Geneva Avenue and Park Street in Dorchester around 5 p.m. on Wednesday. Read more.

By adamg - 10/23/22 - 10:36 pm

Update: Victim identified as Christian Thistle-Kavanaugh, 21, of Dorchester.

A man was shot at 482 Geneva Ave., near Charles Street, shortly before 10:30 p.m. Boston Police report he was taken to a local hospital, where he died, in Boston's third murder of the weekend. Read more.

By adamg - 10/16/22 - 9:21 pm

Victim identified as Quaaneiruh Goodwyn, 24, of Mattapan.

Three people were shot on Geneva Avenue at Bowdoin Street around 8:50 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 7/6/22 - 10:59 am
66 Geneva Ave. rendering

Rendering by Sol and Associates.

Restaurant owner and developer Solmon Chowdhury has filed plans to replace the building that now houses the New Faith Missionary Baptist Church, across from Burke High School at 66 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester, with a five-story, 50-unit condo building. Read more.

By adamg - 4/13/22 - 8:53 pm
Victim rushed to hospital

Victim being rushed to ambulance. Photo by Live Boston.

Boston Police report a 15-year-old was shot twice outside 237 Geneva Ave. shortly after midnight on March 19. Read more.

By adamg - 2/18/22 - 1:55 pm
120 Bowdoin St. rendering

Rendering by Vanko Studio Architects.

Shanti Acquisition has proposed a 35-unit residential building on what is now a vacant lot at 120 Bowdoin St., next to the Star 50 market at the intersection with Geneva Avenue in Dorchester. Read more.

By adamg - 12/4/21 - 9:26 pm
Firefighter at 383 Geneva Ave.

The Boston Fire Department reports fire was showing on all three floors of 383 Geneva Ave. in Dorchester when firefighters arrived around 8:30 p.m. Read more.

By adamg - 10/22/21 - 11:14 am
Arrest in Fields Corner

Suspect arrested. Photo by Live Boston.

Boston Police report arresting a Roxbury man at his Geneva Avenue store on charges related to the $500,000 in stolen merchandise they say he was selling out of the shop. Read more.

By adamg - 10/5/21 - 1:19 pm

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that Manuel Andrade, now 47, deserves the sentence of life without possibility of parole he got for starting the shootout outside a Geneva Avenue house party that left a 22-year-old woman visiting from Kentucky dead of a gunshot wound to the head. Read more.

By adamg - 2/26/21 - 12:27 pm

Boston Police report a man was stabbed at 21 Geneva Ave. in Grove Hall around 4 p.m. yesterday. His injuries were not considered life threatening.

Marvin Perez-Galicia, 30, of Dorchester, was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, police say.

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