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Person falls on tracks at JFK/UMass

By adamg - 4/26/21 - 5:32 pm
Crews getting person off tracks at JFK/UMass

John Smith captured T workers, firefighters and EMTs getting a person off the Red Line tracks at JFK/UMass this afternoon.

The T halted Red Line service around 5 p.m. to allow the person's rescue; service has since resumed.

Woman sliced in the neck in Alewife parking garage

By adamg - 4/16/21 - 2:47 pm

Transit Police report officers responding to a report of a stabbing found a woman who had "sustained a serious laceration to her neck area" around 2:30 a.m. on Thursday inside the parking garage at the Alewife T station, where she was congregating with other homeless people. She was taken to a Boston hospital for treatment.

Man charged as racist testicle-grabbing, book-throwing puncher at Braintree Red Line station

By adamg - 3/13/21 - 8:20 pm

Transit Police report arresting a Boston man they say went ballistic when told to get off the train at the end of the line in Braintree late last night. Read more.

Police hunt man for unprovoked pummeling at Andrew T station

By adamg - 3/13/21 - 11:23 am
Wanted for Andrew attack

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say walked up to somebody at Andrew and, for no particular reason, punched him repeatedly in the face, around 10 p.m. on Feb. 23. Read more.

Woman robs man of phone at Ashmont T station, then her pal threatens victim with a knife when he tries to get his phone back, police say

By adamg - 3/12/21 - 11:54 am

Transit Police report arresting a Dorchester couple for an armed robbery at Ashmont station Thursday night. Read more.

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APB for people who keep stealing the dividers on benches at the Central Square T stop

By adamg - 3/4/21 - 11:36 am
Wanted for stealing MBTA property

Transit Police report they are looking for four people who have now twice made off with the new arm rests/dividers on benches at the Red Line station in Central Square - the ones that some say are really a hostile act against the homeless. Read more.

Ashmont fare evader spits at T worker, who evades the saliva, police say

By adamg - 3/1/21 - 11:47 am

Transit Police report arresting a man already wanted on several warrants on charges he launched a loogie at a T worker insisting he pay his fare at the Ashmont Red Line station on Friday evening. Read more.

Police: Man repeatedly punches elderly clerk in the face after being caught shoplifting at Porter Square CVS

By adamg - 2/8/21 - 5:47 pm

Cambridge Police report a man who objected to being told to put back items he was trying to shoplift from the Porter Square CVS early Saturday responded by punching "an elderly employee in the face and head multiple times with a closed fist." Read more.

Red Line halted at Andrew after person winds up on the tracks there

By adamg - 2/6/21 - 9:36 pm

Shortly before 9:30 p.m. First responders were able to get him off the tracks and up to the platform, from which he was transported to a local hospital, conscious and alert.

New year but same old stuff: Red Line just not up to snuff

By adamg - 1/14/21 - 6:04 pm
Dead Red Line train at rush hour at Downtown Crossing

Door-impaired Red Line train at DTX at rush hour. Photo by Ben Chan.

Ben Chan reports he was on the Red Line platform at Downtown Crossing around 5:40 p.m. when a train pulled in and the doors on one car just wouldn't open and the driver ignored the herdette of people (like five people) banging on the train and waving at him and he just doesn't care and wants to keep going, schedules and all that, no doubt, before deciding this train is coming out of service. Read more.

Ads follow riders off the Red Line

By adamg - 1/11/21 - 9:01 pm
Red Line car with no riders, no ads

Chris Staiti reports from the Red Line today:

Not a single poster ad on the entire train. Just as well. There were no people to see any ads either.

Two sought in connection with stabbing at Downtown Crossing T stop

By adamg - 1/10/21 - 1:37 pm
Wanted for questioning: Two women

Transit Police have released photos of two women they want to talk to about a stabbing at Downtown Crossing around 9:45 p.m. on Jan. 3. Read more.

A view to a krill: Man learns it can be dangerous selling bags of frozen shrimp on the Red Line

By adamg - 1/9/21 - 11:53 am

Transit Police report pinching a shellfish Dorchester guy they say tried to steal bags of frozen shrimp from a man who was going down a Red Line car offering to sell them. Read more.

New Red Line train observed, ridden in the wild

By adamg - 12/30/20 - 10:25 pm

Mark Ebuña reports on and videos his ride from Kendall inbound on one of the new-car-smell Red Line trains today.

Convicted sex offender charged with using hunting knife to try to hold up two teens at Quincy Center T stop

By adamg - 11/30/20 - 9:19 pm
Vernard Shepard

Transit Police report arresting Vernard Shepard, 31, on charges he threatened two juveniles with a double-sided hunting knife after they refused his request for money at the Quincy Center T station around 7:10 p.m. on Friday. Read more.

Woman pulls disabled woman out of wheelchair at Andrew station and kicks her in the head, police say

By adamg - 11/27/20 - 11:08 am

Transit Police report arresting a 26-year-old woman they say attacked a 61-year-old woman in a wheelchair at the Andrew Square T stop Wednesday night. Read more.

Harvard Square fare evader was packing a pistol, police say

By adamg - 11/17/20 - 12:05 pm

Transit Police report an officer on patrol at the Harvard Square Red Line station last night spotted a guy push his way through a fare gate and when the officer came after him, the man rushed upstairs and into Harvard Yard - where he tried to hide a gun in a pile of leaves. Read more.

Why your train couldn't depart: Red Line delayed by shopping cart

By adamg - 11/9/20 - 10:53 pm

Yes, it's come to this: Around 9 p.m., the MBTA reported delays of up to 15 minutes on the Braintree branch of the Red Line so that workers could remove a shopping car from the tracks at North Quincy.

Those Red and Orange Line cars were late even before the pandemic hit

By adamg - 10/26/20 - 9:22 am

The Globe shows how delays were already mounting for the new cars even before March.

Man wanted for kicking, spitting at woman at JFK/UMass T stop may have also attacked an Uber driver downtown

By adamg - 10/11/20 - 5:11 pm
Wanted for assault and battery

Surveillance photo via Transit Police.

A man Transit Police say attacked a woman he was piggybacking behind at the JFK/UMass Red Line stop last Tuesday also punched an Uber driver on Arch Street on Friday afternoon, according to the driver's passenger at the time. Read more.

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