Wednesday, October 24, 2012
The victim was taken to the hospital for head injuries and a possible broken rib, according to a police report.
A man suffered head injuries and possibly a broken rib after he was kicked off his bicycle and beaten with a cane, according to the victim's account detailed in a Somerville Police report. The alleged beating took place Oct. 20 at around 9 p.m. near the intersection of McGrath Highway and Bonair Street, according to the report. The victim told police that when he was riding his bicycle a man named "Sal," later identified as Salvatore Ferro, 44, of 20 Kennsington Ave., kicked the victim off his bike and continued to kick him once he was down. The victim said another man, whom he couldn't identify, hit him in the head with a cane. The victim was ultimately transported to Somerville Hospital to be treated for his injuries. Somerville …
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McGrath Hwy & Bonair St, Somerville, MA
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
The man allegedly told the officers who arrested him, "If I wasn't handcuffed, and I had a gun, I would [expletive] shoot both of you."
A Cambridge man was caught "giving chase to one of the nuns" at Somerville's Little Sisters of the Poor, according to a Somerville Police report. He then allegedly kicked the nun. Police responded to the Catholic senior housing facility at 190 Highland Ave. at about 4:20 p.m. on Oct. 17, according to the report. When officers got there, the main entrance was locked. As they waited for someone to buzz them in, the officers saw Shawn Bryon, 45, of Albany Street in Cambridge, chasing the wheelchair-bound nun, who was attempting to flee, the report says. When the nun reached the main entrance, officers saw Bryon kick her in the leg and wheelchair, accord to the report. One officer began tugging on the door to get into the building, and Bryon …
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Little Sisters of the Poor
186 Highland Ave, Somerville, MA
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
A woman was injured, a beer bottle was thrown, a weed whacker was wielded and punches were thrown after an argument about landscaping in Winter Hill.
Update: WHDH, Channel 7, spoke to the brother-in-law of the injured woman. It also broadcast photos of the woman's injuries. You can see their report here. Original story: A landscaping dispute gone wrong led one man to swing his weed whacker at a neighbor, injuring a woman, according to allegations in a Somerville police report. The injured woman's husband threw a beer bottle at the weed-whacker-wielder before chasing the man down the street with help from two other men, according to more allegations from the report. When police arrived, the weed whacking man was shirtless and "covered in blood," the report says. It all started a little after 5 p.m. Sunday when a man and his wife were looking at their garden at 371 Broadway while, on the …
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-71.09634
371 Broadway, Somerville, MA
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
The officer is on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into an incident in which he allegedly bumped into a pedestrian with his car.
A Somerville parking enforcement officer is on paid administrative leave after allegedly spitting on and "bumping" a pedestrian with his car. The incident happened Aug. 14, at about 10:40 a.m., on Dane Street, according to a Somerville police report. According to the report, the victim told police he was crossing Dane Street in a crosswalk when the parking enforcement officer—Anthony Silvestri, 58, of 252 Medford St.—drove up Dane Street and stopped short so as not to hit the victim. After the narrow miss, the victim and Silvestri got into a heated argument, according to the report. The victim told police Silvestri spat on him then drove up Dane Street and into a parking lot, where he turned around and waited on the parking-lot ramp, the …
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-71.10399
Dane St & Tyler St, Somerville, MA
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
The knife wielding happened at about 1 a.m. near the Paddock Restaurant, a police report says.
A man pulled a knife on his roommate at the Paddock Restaurant, chased the victim down the street, then accidentally cut his cousin with the knife, according to a Somerville police report. Police arrested 33-year-old Gladison Sandes, of 32 Radcliffe Rd., in connection to the incident, which took place early in the morning on July 7. According to the police report, Sandes and another man got into an argument at the restaurant at about 1 a.m. The report says the victim, who was going through a divorce, was staying with Sandes temporarily. During the argument, Sandes allegedly pulled a knife he uses for work and threatened the victim with it, ultimately chasing him down the street to Radcliffe Road. Two witnesses, including Sandes' cousin, …
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The Paddock Restaurant
249 Pearl St, Somerville, MA
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Police responded to a late-night fracas involving about 7 people and arrested a Somerville man who is accused hitting one of the combatants with a metal baseball bat.
Somerville police arrested a Somerville man after a late-night street fight in which he allegedly hit one of the fighters with a baseball bat. The fight happened outside 182 Broadway, in East Somerville, at around 11:40 p.m. on April 30, according to a Somerville Police Department incident report. When police arrived on the scene, they encountered about 7 people yelling at each other, the report says. Witnesses said two members of the group had engaged in a fight, and that at some point a man hit one of the belligerents with a baseball bat before running into a nearby residence, according to the report. Police found the alleged bat-wielder, Mark McLaughlin, 26, at 184 Broadway, the report says. McLaughlin told police he did have a bat, but…
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-71.08663
182 Broadway, Somerville, MA
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
First, the woman tried to drive off with the cab after passing out in the back seat, according to the cabbie's account in a police report.
On the way home from On the Hill Tavern early Sunday morning, a woman allegedly passed out in the back seat of a taxi cab … then woke up, punched her cab driver, tried to drive off with his car, ran from police and ultimately hit the cabbie with a shoe, according to a police report. The incident happened outside 10 Webster Ave. in Union Square a little before 2 a.m., according to the report. A taxi driver waved down a police cruiser on Somerville Avenue, telling the officer a woman had just hit him, the report says. The woman, who was standing near the cab at the intersection of Washington Street and Webster Avenue, started screaming and running when the officer drove toward her, according to the report, which says the cab driver ran …
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10 Webster Ave, Somerville, MA
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Courtney O'Keefe
10:00 am on Tuesday, October 23, 2012
First, a guy beating up a Veteran, now this? Spot on, Theresa & Linda! How low can you go!?! more ›