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Sunday, October 7, 2012

Somerville Man Arrested For Allegedly Enticing Teen

Reading police arrested Justin Koser, 30, for allegedly attempting to have sex with a 15 year old in Reading.

A Somerville man police said allegedly attempted to entice a 15-year-old into sex has been arrested in Reading, police said in a statement.  Justin Koser, 30, was arrested by Reading Police after traveling to the town to allegedly have sex with the teen Saturday. Police said Kosher had shared graphic conversations with the teen via online and text messages prior to the trip.  Koser will be arraigned in Woburn's Middlesex District Court this Tuesday.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Police Booking Log: Three Assault Arrests and Alleged Heroin Deal

The following arrest information was supplied by the Somerville Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

Arrests made by the Somerville Police Department from Aug. 20 to Aug. 25. Please remember that the charges listed below do not indicate a conviction. On Aug. 20, Joseph Renzullo, 49, of 27 West St., Melrose, was arrested on charges of assault and battery (two counts) and breaking and entering for a misdemeanor. On Aug. 25, Andre Shoy, 42, of 80 Webster Ave., Somerville, was arrested on the charge of assault and battery. On Aug. 25, Jason Laporta, 36, of 119 Pearl St., Somerville, was arrested on charges of armed assault to murder, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and destruction of property over $250. On Aug 22, Robert Thomas, 44, of 20 Hooker St., Medford, was arrested on charges of possession of a Class A drug (heroin) and …

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Police Booking Log: Two Caught With Stolen Laptops

The following arrest information was supplied by the Somerville Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

Arrests made by the Somerville Police Department from Aug. 14 to Aug. 18. Please remember that the charges listed below do not indicate a conviction. On Aug. 14, Anthony Silvestri, 58, of 252 Medford St., was arrested on Dane Street and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. Silvestri, a parking control officer with the city of Somerville, is accused of "bumping" his car into a pedestrian after a heated argument. On Aug. 14, Jorge Furtado, 37, of 11 MacArthur St., was arrested at that address and charged with assault and battery. On Aug. 15, Adam Scott, of Woburn, was arrested on Boston Avenue an charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, resisting arrest and failure to stop for police. He is accused of hitting a …

Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Police Booking Log: Cocaine Arrest, Man Arrested Twice in One Week

The following arrest information was supplied by the Somerville Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

Arrests made by the Somerville Police Department from July 23 to July 28. Please remember that the charges listed below do not indicate a conviction. On July 23, Guy Kehoe, 47, of 326 Somerville Ave., was arrested at that address and charged with assault and battery. On July 24, Aleika Lewis, 37, of 8 Nashua St., was arrested at 8 Main St. and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. On July 25, Timothy Omeara, 48, of 1366 Broadway, was arrested at that address and charged with assault and battery on a person over 60. On July 26, Seth Roberts, 31, of Hamilton, was arrested at 142 Holland St. and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon. Roberts is accused of threatening his neighbors with a shotgun because he thought …

ikonoklast44

2:02 pm on Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Is there any place to see mugshots of these people?   more ›

Police: Man Arrested for Laptop Theft, Is Pepper Sprayed Two Days Later

The man was also arrested once in May and once in June, according to police reports.

A 24-year-old man was arrested July 23 and accused of being involved in an afternoon laptop theft from a Ball Square computer business. He was arrested again two days later in East Somerville, pepper sprayed, and charged with disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. The same man, Christopher Hicks, was also arrested on May 10 (and charged with violating an open container law and resisting arrest) and again on July 13 (when he was charged violating an open container law). In regard to the alleged laptop theft, according to a police report Hicks and another man walked into AngelTronics, a computer repair shop, at 735 Broadway at about 2 p.m. According to an account in the police report, Hicks and the other man asked the owner of AngelTronics…

Monday, July 30, 2012

Police: Holland Street Shotgun Incident Involved Stolen Turtle

A man, "stroking" a shotgun on his Holland Street porch, threatened his neighbors and accused them of stealing his turtle, according to a police report.

It's an image you'd expect to see in a Hollywood depiction of 1950s Appalachia, not one you'd associate with Holland Street in Somerville, between Davis and Teele squares, on a Thursday afternoon: A man sitting on his porch, "stroking" a shotgun, a handgun stuffed into his waistband, accusing his upstairs neighbors of stealing his pet turtle. But that's exactly what happened at about 3:15 p.m. on July 26 at 142 Holland St., according to allegations in a Somerville police report. According to one of the victim's accounts in the police report, she and her boyfriend were coming home when they noticed Seth Roberts, 31, on the front porch. He told them someone took his turtle, his "baby" whom he saw hatch, and he asked how they'd like it if …

Lisa

9:14 pm on Sunday, August 5, 2012

Hope he gets his turtle back.   more ›

Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Reports: Middlesex County Deputy Sheriff Died from Self-Inflicted Gunshot Prior to Crash

The incident occurred at about 4 a.m. Wednesday on Treble Cove Road in Billerica.

The Middlesex County deputy sheriff who was found dead after an early-morning, single-car crash in Billerica Wednesday died from a self-inflicted gunshot to the head, according to the Lowell Sun. The Middlesex County Sheriff’s office has identified the deputy as Edward “Teddy” Dillon III, 27, of Lowell, but has not commented on his cause of death. The Middlesex County District Attorney’s office has only said that his death was not suspicious and no charges are being filed, according to the Sun report.  Dillon’s police cruiser, which sustained heavy front-end damage, was found at 4 a.m. on Treble Cove Road in Billerica. He was on duty at the time of the incident. Middlesex County Sheriff Peter Koutoujian released the following statement …

Police Booking Log: Bike Theft in Davis Square

The following arrest information was supplied by the Somerville Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.

On July 16, Elizabeth Norena, 19, of 79 Derby St., was arrested at 15 Memorial Rd. and charged with assault and battery. On July 16, Eulogio Cruz, 52, of 45 Memorial Rd., was arrested at 45A Memorial Rd. and charged with assault and battery. On July 19, James Halliday, 32, of 11 Putnam St., Michael Dacey, 28, of Charlestown and Reif Larson, 18, were arrested on Putnam Street and charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. They are accused of almost hitting a man who was walking his dog across the street with a moving truck and then, after a verbal exchange, punching, knocking to the ground and kicking the man. They told police the man pulled a straight edge razor on them. On July 17, Rene Garcia, 37, of 413 Somerville Ave., …

Group Arrested for Drinking on Dilboy Field, One Man Flees

Teenagers were drinking vodka, men were drinking Becks beer, and Somerville and Arlington police were unable to find a man who ran away, possibly carrying a weapon.

Young men were drinking vodka and beer and smashing bottles at Dilboy Field in West Somerville Saturday night, according to a police report. Police arrested five people at the field, and one man fled from police, possibly carrying a weapon, leading Somerville and Arlington police to search unsuccessfully for the man, the report says. Police responded to Dilboy at about 10 p.m., when the park closes. When they arrived, police saw two teenagers sitting on a bench with an open container of vodka, and a third man standing nearby who backed away when he saw the officers, according to the report. Police saw the man put a shiny object into his waistband, which they thought might have been a firearm or weapon, the report says. He ran, and police …

west meff

11:03 am on Wednesday, July 25, 2012

People will always be hanging out at parks at night cause theres nothing else to do. Make some basketball courts with lights, give people opertunities, ect. Who really cares anyway? there not bothering anyone let them be.   more ›

Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Police: Man Broke Leg Running From Cops Who Weren't Chasing Him

The man allegedly stole an iPhone, which had its GPS locator function activated, leading detectives to an Otis Street home.

iPhones have GPS tracking devices, and a 20-year-old Somerville man learned that lesson the hard way, according to accounts in Somerville police reports. According to the reports, a woman was walking home from the bus stop July 15 a little before 12:30 a.m. when a young man asked her for the time. When she pulled out her iPhone to check, the man snatched the phone from her and ran off down Bonnair Street toward Cross Street, the report says. The woman called police, met them at the Hess Gas station, and when they arrived she told them her iPhone's GPS locator was enabled, according to the report. Police were soon able to determine the phone was located inside one of two Otis Street homes. Later, a detective assigned to the case went to 14 …

Chang Grango

3:37 pm on Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Too bad it wasn't his neck that broke - rotten scumbag.   more ›

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