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Crime watch: March 12 - March 19
By Dawn Witlin/ Chronicle Staff
Wed Mar 21, 2007, 11:25 AM EDT
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The following is a log of police activity on file at the Cambridge Police Department and available to the public. The Chronicle logs arrests, assaults and car thefts when adequate information is available. Compiled by Dawn Witlin and James Herms, police log compiler for MIT and Harvard.
March 12, 7:33 a.m., Fouad Gabbas, 33, 444 Harrison Ave., Boston, was arrested by MIT Police at the MIT Religious Activities Center, 40 Mass. Ave., charged with warrants for trespass and disorderly conduct. Gabbas was allegedly found sleeping in the Muslim prayer room.
March 12, 8:29 p.m., Sonu Abraham, 41, 60 block of Homer Ave., was arrested at his home, charged with domestic assault and battery.
March 12, 9:24 p.m., Thomas Raymond Rounds, 240 Albany St., was arrested at 1 White St., charged with warrants.
March 12, 10:38 p.m., Willie Gill, 8 Elbert St., Roxbury, was arrested at 291 Cambridge St., charged with a warrant.
March 13, 12:42 a.m., Mario Civil, 27, 814 N. Main St., Randolph, was arrested at Mass. Ave. and Landsdowne Street, charged with receiving a stolen motor vehicle and light violation.
March 13, 12:56 a.m., Adel Aziz Madjudozonga, 500 Broadway, Malden, was arrested at 11 Mellen St., charged with a warrant.
March 13, 4:03 a.m., Ismael Maisonet Jr., 901 Cambridge St., was arrested at 173 Columbia St., charged with a warrant.
March 13, 3:20 p.m., Donald S. Nickerson, 44, 24 Watson St., Apt. 3, was arrested by MIT Police at 1 Akron St., charged with warrants.
March 13, 5:40 p.m., Tarcisio Nonato Nobre, 14 Ferry St., Newburyport, was arrested at Mass. Ave. and Pearl Street, charged with operating a suspended license and making an improper turn.
March 14, Alvin J. Godfrey, 4 Oak Crest Road, Apt. 1, Mattapan, was arrested, charged with warrants.
March 15, 2:10 a.m., Justinian Forsythe-Fandett, 25, 1 Hemlock Road, was arrested at KFC, 795 Mass. Ave., charged with vandalizing property. Police said Forsythe-Fandett tagged a fence post in the parking lot.
March 15, 2:33 p.m., Ryan M. Davis, 20, 3 Ames St., was arrested by MIT Police at East Campus Residence Hall, 3 Ames St., charged with a warrant from Cambridge District Court for possession of a Class B controlled substance and disorderly conduct.
March 15, 5:44 p.m., David Scrima, 46, 15 Range Road, Windham, N.H., was arrested by Harvard Police at Pound Building, 1573 Mass. Ave., charged with trespassing.
March 16, 12:12 a.m., Anthony Bynoe, 23, 93 Sixth St., was arrested at 1 Jackson Gardens, charged with domestic assault and battery.
March 18, Yves Moise, 240 Albany St., was arrested at 655 Mass. Ave., charged with outstanding warrants.
March 18, Lisa Hawes, 45, 55 Columbia Street, Apt. 2, was arrested at 596 Mass. Ave., charged with shoplifting.
March 18, 5:05 p.m., Ramon Mendez, 32, 444 Harrison Ave., was arrested at the Gap, 625 Mass. Ave., charged with shoplifting.
March 18, 21:20, Kenneth Greenleaf, 21, 119 Pine St., was arrested at his home, charged with larceny, improper use of credit card, assault, witness intimidation, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace and attempt to commit a crime. Police said Greenleaf initiated a domestic assault with his 54-year-old mother.
March 12, police said a 13-year-old Roxbury boy and 15-year-old Roxbury girl were threatened by a man with a knife while walking to Community Charter School between Broadway and the 6th Street Connector. Police said 34-year-old Anthony Sico, 174 Thorndike St., Apt. 1, waved a knife at the victims and said, “You want some, too?” Sico was arrested the next day on Binney Street near Sixth Street, charged with assault with a deadly weapon.
March 12, 10:09 p.m., police said three young men assaulted a 44-year-old Cambridge man on Cleveland Street, between Dana and Ellery streets. “Give me all your [expletive],” one suspect allegedly said. Police said the other two suspects punched the victim twice in the head before he escaped on foot. The three suspects are 15 to 19 years old, of average height, wearing hooded sweatshirts. The victim refused medical attention.
March 17, 7:36 p.m., a 37-year-old Cambridge man was beaten to the ground by a group of young men. He was treated at Cambridge City Hospital. No further information is available.
March 18, 2 a.m., police said a bouncer hit a 26-year-old Cambridge man with a glass bottle at the B-Side Lounge, 92 Hampshire St. The victim claims as he was leaving the bar, the bouncer, who repeatedly punched him, threw him against a wall. The bar manager told police the victim and bouncer first flared their tempers as the victim assumed entry to the bar without giving his ID because he was a former employee. According to the police report, the victim confronted the bouncer by shining a flashlight in his face and claiming he had been disrespected. The bouncer, police said, was in fear of being hit by the flashlight and struck the victim with the bottle in self-defense. The victim was transported to Cambridge City Hospital to be treated for a cut over his left eye.
March 12, Fresh Pond Seafood, 355 Fresh Pond Parkway
March 12, CambridgeSide Galleria
March 15, 40 block of JFK Street
March 15, Ashdown House, 305 Memorial Drive
March 16, 110 block of Harvard Street
March 17, 260 block of Broadway
March 12, a 29-year-old resident said they were robbed at knifepoint by a by a 5-foot-5 black male, between 18 and 25 years old, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and dark clothing, at Erie and Pearl streets.
March 18, 12:30 a.m., a 22-year-old Boston woman was robbed while walking on Fulkerson Street. A male, between 18 and 20 years old, wearing a white hooded sweatshirt, approached the victim. “Give me all you have,” the suspect said before he snatched her purse and fled in an unknown direction.
March 18, 1:15 a.m., an undergraduate told Harvard and State Police he was the victim of an attempted armed robbery while walking on JFK St. by Memorial Drive. The student said that when an unidentified male holding a knife demanded his wallet, the victim threw his backpack at the suspect, who fell to the ground. The suspect then fled towards Allston.
March 15, a resident reported the tires and rims stolen from his car while parked at 23 Lancaster St.
March 15, a resident reported his MBTA CharlieCard stolen from his jacket while at B-Good Restaurant, 24 Dunster St.
March 18, police said 20 DVD movies were stolen from their cases at Blockbuster Video, 545 Mass. Ave.
March 15, William Gervais, 27, was indicted by a Middlesex County grand jury, charged with armed robbery. The assistant district attorney is Marian Ryan.
March 15, Carlos Rodriquez, 26, of Cambridge, was indicted by a Middlesex County grand jury, charged with unlicensed sale of a firearm, possession of a firearm and armed career criminal. The assistant district attorney is Nicole Jorge.
Window-shopping. March 16, a 50-year-old Cambridge man was robbed at knifepoint by two men for his pair of tan work boots outside Foot Locker, 580 Mass. Ave. One suspect approached the victim and said, “What size boot are you?” That suspect then took out a silver 6-inch pocketknife and ordered the victim to take off his boots. The second suspect acted as lookout while the victim removed his boots. The two men fled down Pearl Street. The first suspect is a white male wearing a black winter jacket and blue jeans. The second suspect is a black male wearing a blue jean jacket, blue jeans and a black hooded sweatshirt. Both suspects were clean shaven and in their mid-20s.
Shoplifter tries to take Trump (suitcases). March 17, a shoplifter was foiled by security while attempting to snatch and dash with two Donald Trump suitcases from Macy’s department store at the CambridgeSide Galleria. Police said the man grabbed two suitcases and ran towards the door, but when the guard gave chase, the suspect dropped the ill-gotten gains and fled the scene.
In addition to this week’s log entries, Cambridge, Harvard and MIT police received
nine reports of stolen wallets, purses or backpacks,
three incidents of identity, credit card, bank fraud or theft,
11 reported cell-phone, electronics, iPods or laptop thefts,
12 motor vehicle hit-and-runs,
11 reports of vandalism or malicious destruction,
one stolen vehicle plates,
one stolen bicycles,
three incidences of shoplifting,
and the following vehicle-related thefts. The year and make of vehicles are listed when police have provided that information.
March 17, Magazine Street near Memorial Drive
March 18, Trader Joes, 748 Memorial Drive
Car break-ins
March 12, 6th Street
March 13, 205 Mt. Auburn St.
March 13, 82 Kirkland St.
March 13, Spring Street
March 13, Cambridge Center
March 14, Prescott Street
March 17, 13 Sullivan Road
March 1, 186 Richdale Ave.
