Assault
MBTA bus driver punched over fare
MBTA driver is recovering after a fight over a fare onboard an MBTA bus. It’s the latest in a series of attacks on T workers. MBTA officials said the man boarded at Dudley Station and didn’t want to pay his fare. They say that man punched the driver in the nose when the driver asked…
Read MoreMan arrested for threatening MBTA operator
On March 23, 2013 at approximately 9:00 pm Transit Police officers from Area 3 responded to Ashmont MBTA station for a report of a trolley operator being assaulted. Upon arrival officers interviewed the victim/T employee who stated the following: while at Ashmont T station she was angrily approached by a male, later identified as James…
Read MoreTeen throws soda can at Green Line driver, misses
Universal Hub | By adamg | 3/27/13 Four teens got into an argument with a Green Line operator around 4:45 p.m. at the BU West Station. The MBTA reports one of them threw a soda can at the driver. He missed, but T police nabbed him and now he faces a court appearance for assault with…
Read MoreBus Operator Assaulted – Arrest Made
On March 20, 2013 at approximately 1:03 pm Transit Police officers from Area 3 received a radio call to respond to the area of 51 Geneva Avenue for a report of an MBTA bus operator being assaulted. Upon arrival officers interviewed the operator/victim who stated he was spat upon by a male, later identified as KiDante Roberts, 18 of Dorchester. Victim…
Read MoreHelp us ID this person
Transit Police detectives are seeking to identify the female subject depicted in this video. If you know the identity or whereabouts of this individual please contact the Transit Police’s Criminal Investigation Unit at 617-222-1050. On Saturday March 9, 2013, at approximately 3:20pm, A bus operator was assaulted by a female suspect at Ashmont Station. The female suspect spat…
Read MoreTransit Police Arrest Teenager in ‘Senseless Attack’ on Bus Driver
Boston Globe | By Brian Ballou and John R. Ellement | March 13, 2013 The attorney for an 18-year-old Roxbury man accused of participating in a group attack Saturday on an MBTA bus driver said today that her client punched the driver, but only as an instinctive reaction after he, too, came under attack by…
Read MoreMBTA Drivers Face String Of Assaults
By Christina Hager | WBZ-TV | October 18, 2012 BOSTON (CBS) – MBTA police are looking for a man who punched a bus driver at 5:40 Thursday morning. Chief Joseph O’Connor says the man wanted the driver to let him out in a spot that was not an actual bus stop. When the driver refused,…
Read More2 arrested after MBTA bus driver allegedly assaulted
(Courtesy of Channel 7 – WHDH) NEWTON, Mass. — Two suspects were arrested in Newton after police say they talked their way into a free MBTA bus ride to court, and then beat up the driver who helped them. 7News cameras rolled as police cuffed 24-year-old Kelly Galvin and her boyfriend, 28-year-old Jesse Cedrone.
Read MoreAssaults on T workers on the rise
Boston Herald | April 10, 2013 | By Gary J. Remal and Richard Weir Assaults on MBTA employees are up dramatically this year, T cops say, after arresting a rider they say spat on and then slugged a bus driver in Malden’s Oak Grove Station in the kind of fare dispute that the T police…
Read MoreIdentification wanted for Assault on T employee
Do you Recognize this person? On Wednesday, June 11, 2014, at approximately 5:30 PM, the subject depicted within spit on the bus operator of a Route #110 MBTA Bus near the intersection of Clinton Street and Chelsea Street in the City of Everett. The subject is described as follows: White or Hispanic male, black hair,…
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