Boston police tacked on a resisting arrest cost to a repeat baby abuser after they picked him up on a rape cost out of Chinatown.
Edwin Fantauzzi, 33, was noticed by a “concerned citizen,” who had seen media studies that he was wished by police as a suspect for a Harrison Avenue-area rape final weekend, exiting the T at Roxbury Crossing after which strolling within the route of Nubian Square, in accordance with a police report of the arrest.
Police say they noticed the suspect sitting on the sidewalk with an olive-green backpack close to an ATM for Citizens Bank. Police requested him for his ID, which he allegedly advised them was again in his automotive downtown, however gave them a false birthday and mentioned his title was “Roberto Santiago.”
That’s a recognized Fantauzzi alias and is listed on his state intercourse offender profile — he used the title when police arrested him in New Jersey in November 2018 on a cost of tried rape of a kid in Lower Roxbury earlier that month.
Police within the present case matched Fantauzzi to the outline they’d — a slim, 5-foot-7 Hispanic male with a skinny beard and a chest tattoo — and commenced to put him below arrest on the rape cost, in accordance with the police report. He allegedly responded by “violently and actively resisting” by “flailing his arms and torso” to such a level that he knocked arresting officers to the bottom with him.
Once Fantauzzi, who has two convictions of indecent assault and battery on an individual aged 14 or older and one in all attractive a baby below the age of 16 on his intercourse offender registry profile, was cuffed, he allegedly started flailing his legs and screaming that officers ought to “shoot me now.”
Judge Debra DelVecchio held Fantauzzi on $300 money bail at his arraignment in municipal court docket in Roxbury Thursday. He’s scheduled to look on the resisting arrest cost June 31.
The Chinatown rape expenses are being dealt with on the central municipal court docket downtown and a probation matter out of Florida is being dealt with by Essex County Superior Court.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”