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Teen Threatened To Shoot Up Springfield School, Showed Gun: Police Teen Threatened To Shoot Up Springfield School, Showed Gun: Police
Teen Threatened To Shoot Up Springfield School, Showed Gun: Police A day after a 14-year-old boy opened fire in a Georgia high school killing four people, a 15-year-old in Massachusetts threatened to do the same at a school in Springfield, authorities said.  Administrators at an unnamed charter school called police around 9 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 5, after learning of the threats. A student told them about the comments and shared a video that showed the teen with a gun, Springfield police said.  Officers searched the teen's home but did not find the weapon. Soon after, police were alerted to another teen who attends a different school and is fri…

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by Josh Lanier
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Drunk Wakefield Man Threatens To Blow Up Store During Fight With Security: DA Drunk Wakefield Man Threatens To Blow Up Store During Fight With Security: DA
Drunk Wakefield Man Threatens To Blow Up Store During Fight With Security: DA A drunk Wakefield man is facing multiple charges after he got into a physical fight with Primark security, tried to steal something from the store, and then threatened to blow up the building when he lost, authorities said.  Williams Rodriguez-Juarez, 24, is charged with unarmed robbery, making a bomb or hijack threat, assault and battery on a police officer, strangulation or suffocation, trespassing, resisting arrest,  and three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon (shod foot), the Suffolk County District Attorney said. A judge set his bail at $500, and he must stay away from…

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by Josh Lanier
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Hammer-Wielding Man Threatens To Kill Employees At Somerville Gas Station: Police Hammer-Wielding Man Threatens To Kill Employees At Somerville Gas Station: Police
Hammer-Wielding Man Threatens To Kill Employees At Somerville Gas Station: Police Police arrested a man who who threatened employees both verbally and physically at a Somerville gas station last month. Police responded to a report of a suspicious person at a gas station on Alewife Brook Parkway just before 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28, according to a Somerville Police crime log.  Upon arrival, officers learned that a man walked into the store and was rude to employees. After he was told to leave, the man grabbed a hammer, chased the employees and threatened to kill them before leaving the store. Officers arrested the man when he came back to the same area around 9 p…

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by David Cifarelli
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Somerville Man Threatens To Hit Bus Driver With Chock Block For 'Driving Too Slowly' Somerville Man Threatens To Hit Bus Driver With Chock Block For 'Driving Too Slowly'
Somerville Man Threatens To Hit Bus Driver With Chock Block For 'Driving Too Slowly' A 22-year-old Somerville man must have been late to an important meeting because he berated an MBTA bus driver for not going fast enough and threatened them with a heavy wooden block, authorities said.  Wakell Steele hopped on the bus at Davis Square around 6:30 p.m. on Friday, July 15, but pressed the request stop button moments later, Transit Police said. When the driver pulled over, Steele began shouting at them for "f**king driving too slowly" and demanded his money back, authorities continued.  Steele grabbed a chock block, a five-pound hunk of wood drivers put behind t…

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by Josh Lanier