SEATTLE — Maurice Clemmons, the suspect in the massacre of four police officers in the Tacoma suburb of Parkland, was, in fact, shot by one of the officers he allegedly killed, police said today. “He has been shot,” said Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff, who has been dealing with media inquiries [...]
Four police officers killed near Seattle
Nov. 29, 2009 Leave a Comment
This is a special report from Blast West with Bradley Ouellette on the ground in Washington. SEATTLE — The gunman burst in with murder on his mind early this morning. Four police officers sat in a coffee shop just outside Parkland, a Tacoma suburb 40 miles south of Seattle. They were working on their laptops, [...]
UMass cops will donate overtime pay from Levasseur detail
Nov. 11, 2009 Leave a Comment
The union representing the UMASS Amherst campus police announced Wednesday that officers who work overtime details required for security if/when Ray Luc Levasseur speaks on campus November 12 will donate all of their pay from that day to a memorial fund set up for a New Jersey state trooper killed in a wave of violence [...]
Yale grad student vanishes
Sept. 10, 2009 3 Comments
Police at Yale University have issued a missing person’s report on 24-year-old Pharmacology student Annie Le.
Tokers, not terrorists, cause police and fire fracas downtown
April 30, 2009 Leave a Comment
No, Boston is not in the grips of a mad scientist with anthrax. Nor is it under siege from a series of terrorist briefcase bombs. It was pot, marijuana, Mary Jane, grass, weed and a whole lot of it that tied up half the emergency services in the city Thursday afternoon. Mailroom workers at One [...]
BPD warns of more North End attacks
April 25, 2009 Leave a Comment
More women are being attacked in the North End, in mirror images incidents that have been going on for the past several years. On Friday around 9:30 p.m. a woman told police she was walking near Prince Street in Boston’s “Little Italy” when a man attacked her with a knife. She fended him off and [...]
DA: Milton police shooting justified
April 16, 2009 Leave a Comment
BOSTON — Norfolk County District Attorney WIlliam R. Keating’s office has ruled that the March 28 fatal police shooting of Kerby Revelus as he murdered two and wounded another of his sisters was justified. “The evidence clearly indicates that the actions of Milton Police that day spared the life of this young girl from the [...]
How bad is copper theft?
Dec. 3, 2008 Leave a Comment
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, last April, when tornadoes were threatening Jackson, Mississippi, many residents were not alerted to the severe weather because five tornado warning sirens didn’t work. The reason: the sirens’ copper wiring had been stolen. A month before that, 4,000 Polk County, Fla. residents were powerless when thieves ripped copper [...]
