A 35-year-old Mattapan girl is accused of attacking a 13-year-old boy at a South Boston MBTA station final week, whereas a Sandwich man has been charged with assaulting and robbing the house owners of a Hanover Street retailer final yr.
In Thursday’s incident at Andrew Station, MBTA Transit Police responded to a name at 7:30 a.m. for a juvenile who had been attacked and suffered a minimize to his face.
The boy instructed police that he was ready for a bus with some buddies, whereas a lady he didn’t know was strolling across the bus cease yelling obscenities. Without provocation, the lady — later recognized as Monica Velez-Caraballo — walked as much as the boy and allegedly hit him within the face with a soda can that had jagged edges.
A couple of minutes after police arrived, the boy noticed Velez-Caraballo. After being arrested, Velez-Caraballo instructed police, “They started it. They threw a chemical on my skin and it’s burning me.”
Police officers reported that Velez-Caraballo was not affected by any apparent pores and skin redness or irritation per a chemical burn. Also, officers discovered a ginger ale soda can with jagged decrease edges from the busway.
Boston EMS transported the boy to a hospital for remedy of his facial laceration.
“This is an extremely frightening experience for a 13-year-old, or anyone else, who is doing nothing more than waiting at a bus stop with the appropriate expectation of safety and security,” Suffolk DA Kevin Hayden mentioned. “I’m grateful for his alertness in pointing out his attacker to police. These are the types of incidents that degrade our community and we take them very seriously.”
Velez-Caraballo has been charged with assault and battery with a harmful weapon inflicting severe bodily damage and disorderly conduct on a public conveyance. The decide ordered Velez-Caraballo held in lieu of $15,000 bail, and ordered her to avoid Andrew Station and the boy.
The decide additionally revoked Velez-Caraballo’s bail on an present assault case out of Roxbury. Velez-Caraballo is ready to return to court docket on April 6 for a pre-trial listening to.
In the Hanover Street incident from November, 26-year-old Dempsey Allen has been charged with armed theft, assault and battery with a harmful weapon (shod foot), and assault and battery. Allen is within the Barnstable House of Correction on an open drug case.
On Nov. 2 at 11:15 p.m., Boston police responded to Hanover Street, the place two house owners of a comfort retailer mentioned they’d been attacked and robbed by two males.
While the house owners have been taking out the trash, the attackers allegedly punched and kicked the feminine proprietor within the head — they usually punched the male proprietor and ripped a $2,600 chain from his neck.
The girl was transported to the hospital for head accidents.
Video surveillance footage and descriptions by the victims helped police determine Allen as one of many attackers. The second suspect has not been recognized.
The decide on Monday ordered Allen held in lieu of $1,000 bail, and additional ordered Allen to avoid the crime location and from downtown Boston. Allen is ready to return to court docket on March 31 for a possible trigger listening to.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”
