A federal judge said Thursday, September 10, he will issue an order condemning parts of three streets in West Roxbury, giving the property to a company that plans to build a natural gas pipeline through the neighborhood and setting the stage for construction to possibly start within weeks.
The ruling allows Algonquin Gas Transmission to take possession of what is currently city property under Washington, Grove and Centre Streets in West Roxbury.
Algonquin brought the city to court seeking an order that would force the city to give it the property. Lawyers for Boston argued that Algonquin had not proved the easements were necessary.
A city attorney said Boston will explore its appeal options.
Later proceedings will determine how much Algonquin will pay Boston for the property.
On August 18, 23-year-old Marianne Diaz says she and her children awoke to state police detectives and a SWAT team breaking down her door. She said that the officers were looking for a man that hadn’t lived in the home for months.
Diaz alleges that she was not allowed to put on clothes and was frisked by a female officer even though she was naked. Diaz’s fiancé said he suffered a minor back injury during the raid. Diaz said that officers used vulgar language in front of the children.
The city man state and local police sought last Wednesday in a fruitless Hillside Street SWAT raid that frightened residents has been regularly checking in with a probation officer for months.
Additionally, Worcester police appear to have arrested the man Friday afternoon and listed him on the arrest log as living at a different address than the apartment they raided.
Shane B. Jackson Jr., 36, is listed as living at 120 Southgate St. Apt. 2 in Friday’s police log. A spokesperson for the state probation office also confirmed Friday that, as terms of his pretrial release on an April drug test, Mr. Jackson has been checking in with a probation officer three times a week.
There was no immediate indication Friday that Mr. Jackson had violated probation, the spokesperson said, and his next scheduled hearing in that case is a routine one slated for October.
The office confirmed that people under the eye of probation officers are required to give a valid home address, which probation officers are allowed to visit unannounced at any time. The office is not allowed, however, to publicly disclose that address, the spokesperson said.
Police who arrested Mr. Jackson at 120 Southgate St. Friday entered his address on the log as 120 Southgate St. Apt. 2. The charges of the arrest were driving a vehicle with a revoked or suspended license.
On Aug. 19, Mr. Jackson was the target of a Worcester SWAT team that – at the behest of state police – conducted an unannounced, or “no-knock,” warrant search at 17 Hillside St. Apt. 3. State police wrote in an affidavit that Mr. Jackson lived there and was illegally in possession of two firearms.
The three adults who live in the Hillside Street three-decker apartment – including a mother with two young daughters – say they’ve never seen Mr. Jackson, and that he lived there before they moved in this May. They allege that police stormed the apartment, used vulgarities and required the mother, Marianne Diaz, to kneel naked at gunpoint for minutes clutching her daughters before being allowed to cover up.
State Police Col. Richard D. McKeon told the T&G this week that officers did not hit the wrong location, and that the trooper who applied for the warrant had been led there by “probable cause.” The trooper affidavit attached to the search warrant said the information came from a confidential informant. It did not say whether surveillance was conducted on the home prior to the warrant’s issuance.
Police allegedly leave mother kneeling naked crying on the floor with her children beside her, curse at her to be quiet. One resident allegedly has an injured back, another’s fractured wrist was re-fractured. Not even an apology, allegedly.
Yesterday afternoon the State Police Holden Barracks received a report from a Worcester County Deputy Sheriff of a vehicle traveling erratically and at high speeds on Interstate 495 in Marlborough and the vehicle had just exited and is now westbound on Interstate 290.
Trooper Luis Rodriguez was stationary on I-290 near exit 22 in Shrewsbury when he observed the described vehicle pass his location at a speed higher than the posted limit of 65. Trooper Rodriguez attempted to stop the vehicle, which it did not. The vehicle, a Dodge Caliber accelerated to over 100 mph, changing lanes to pass vehicles, including driving in the breakdown lane.
As the vehicle approached a congested construction zone, on I-290 near College Square in Worcester, the pursuit was terminated. The driver, later identified as a 25-year-old man of Manchester New Hampshire, continued to maneuver through traffic. Other troopers then observed the vehicle on Route 20 westbound in Auburn.
As the driver approached troopers stopped on Route 20, he exited the westbound lanes and began driving westbound in the eastbound lanes of Route 20 in the town of Oxford, approaching the Charlton town line. An attempt was made with a tire deflation device to disable the vehicle. He then continued westbound until troopers were able to position their cruisers until he could no longer continue traveling.
The driver was placed under arrest and charged with multiple offenses, including OUI-Drugs and Failure to Stop.
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