A South Street bodega suffered an armed robbery Tuesday. Witnesses told police a man came into JP Variety at 162 South St., brandished a small handgun and made the employee put cigarettes, cash from the till and more cash from the clerk’s wallet into a plastic bag.
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This map, created by Welcome to Dot, shows Part I crimes (i.e. the most serious ones) graphed within a quarter-mile radius. Credit: Welcome to Dot
Statistically, the most serious crimes are down 11 percent in JP for 2014. That’s according to Boston Police Sgt. Beth Leary, who passed along that information at Monday night’s Jamaica Pond Association meeting.
Person of interest in armed robbery of JP Auto Service on Jan. 3, 2015. Police are looking to identify this person. He is not wanted at the time of posting this photo. Credit: Boston Police
Boston Police are seeking help to identify the man in this surveillance photo in connection with an armed robbery of JP Auto Service on Saturday.
UPDATE: Police have released a photo of someone they’d like to identify in connection with this incident.
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The owner of JP Auto Service says he’s given police everything they need to catch the man – and possible accomplice – who robbed his business at gunpoint on Saturday before fleeing into the surrounding neighborhood.
On Friday, police in Jamaica Plain sent out a list of tips to make yourself less likely to become a crime victim. The community alert was sparked by an armed robbery on Wednesday and an attempted armed robbery on Thursday.
Boston Police say a trio of would-be muggers not only failed to get cash off their mark in an Elm Street incident late Thursday — they also got arrested.
“Franklin Park is extremely safe,” said Boston Police Sgt. Samil Silta at a well-attended Wednesday night meeting on safety in the park after a mugging where a man was left tied up.
Here are highlights from the police blotter for Jamaica Plain from Monday, Sept. 29 through Sunday, Oct. 5.
While much of media coverage, including here on Jamaica Plain News, has focused on the alarming armed robberies near the Pond in which victims were tied up and menaced with knives, six incidents of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon or street robberies were reported outside the Pond area.