Is that a deadly weapon in your pocket?

The following reports were taken from the Boston Police Department Allston-Brighton District D-14 crime logs from Oct. 21 to 25.

Officers stopped two suspicious men at around 10:30 a.m. Oct. 22. When officers approached the two men, one put his hand into his pocket. Officers told the man to keep his hands visible, but he ignored them. Police frisked the man and removed a knife with a blade longer than two-and-a-half inches from his pocket. The man became belligerent and shouted, ‘Take my knife, next week I’ll just have my gun!’ Officers could smell alcohol on the man and placed him under arrest for disorderly conduct and possession of an illegal knife, but the man refused to get into the cruiser and elbowed one officer in the stomach. At the station, the man threatened officers and resisted handcuffs. When officers called for backup, the man told them he was going to ‘blast them’ if he ever saw the arresting officers on the street again. The man was booked for Assault and Battery of a police officer, threats to commit bodily harm, disorderly conduct and possession of a prohibited weapon.
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BC gives me the right to
talk back to cops

Officers attempted to break up a party near Boston College around 1 a.m. Oct. 25. As police were clearing the building of partygoers, an officer asked a man and a woman smoking on the front steps of the building to move because they were blocking an exit, but the smokers refused despite the officer’s demands. A crowd of people stopped to watch the interaction, and began asking questions, offering legal advice and demanding the officer’s name and badge number. When the man and woman again refused to leave, the officer placed them under arrest. The man and the woman tried to resist the arrest by flailing and kicking the officer. Members of the crowd also tried to help. Officers made six additional arrests for interfering with the initial arrests. On the way to the police station, one man said he urinated in the cruiser without getting any on himself.

A frugal john goes too far

Officers responded to a call to investigate a scene at 7:30 a.m. Oct. 21. Upon arrival, a woman told police she was an exotic dancer who had called police when a client refused to let her leave his residence. She said she had arranged with the man to dance naked for one hour and give him an erotic massage in exchange for $200. The woman said she kept the deal and after the hour was over tried to leave, but the man refused to let her go and said ‘I paid you $200. This is a rip off!’ She said he then told her he was a former Marine and a cop and pushed her into a wall. When the woman told him she was calling the police, he said ‘Go ahead, call the cops, they are my boys. I bust girls like you all the time.’ Police questioned the man, who admitted to hiring the dancer. The officers seized the $200 as evidence, arrested the two for ‘sex for a fee’ and. in addition, the man for Assault and Battery.