Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Jonathan Williams, 31, of Revere, is also accused of holding up the QuickStop Somerville convenience store. Police say they received several tips from the public.
Police arrested a 31-year-old Revere man in connection to three armed robberies in Medford last week as well as Sunday's brazen armed robbery of the QuickStop Somerville convenience store. Jonathan Williams was arrested Wednesday in Woburn without incident, according to an announcement from Somerville police. According to the announcement, detectives received tips form the public and other sources that led them to Williams. The Somerville Police Department had release surveillance video of Sunday's robbery. The video depicted a man brandishing a pistol as he stole nearly $1,000 from the store's cash register and money box. The suspect was also thought to have been behind three armed robberies in Medford Jan. 24, according to Somerville …
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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Suspect has allegedly robbed three Medford stores.
Somerville police released surveillance video of a suspect who robbed the Somerville QuickStop Convenience Store, at 219 Highland Ave., at gunpoint. In the video you can see the suspect pull out a pistol and threaten the store's clerk with it while the robber helps himself to about $1,000 in cash from the register and money box. The robbery happened Sunday night. Police believe the suspect is the same man who robbed three stores in Medford. Here's the announcement from Somerville police: Somerville Police are seeking to identify the suspect depicted above. On 1/27/13, the suspect entered the Quick Stop Convenience store at 219 Highland Avenue. The suspect showed a long barrel handgun and demanded cash, “including the money in the box …
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Officer Matthew Donovan was in the right place at the right time.
Sometimes police work is about being in the right place at the right time. Such was the case for Transit Police officer Matthew Donovan, a 29-year-old Tewksbury resident. On Saturday, Jan. 5, at around 5:30 p.m., Donovan entered a Dunkin Donuts at 99 Cambridge St. in Charlestown and came across a robbery in progress. According to his report, Donovan initially heard a man, later identified as Michael Wallace, 35, formerly of Medford, screaming at the cashiers that they hadn't given him enough change and saw him leaning over the counter in a threatening manner. Donovan, who was in uniform and on duty, stepped in to defuse the situation. Wallace calmed down but Donovan wrote that the cashier told him the situation was actually a robbery. "He …
Sunday, April 1, 2012
The store's manager chased the suspect from the mall.
A jewelry store was robbed Sunday morning at Meadow Glen Mall by a masked man who made off with a stash of gold necklaces, according to Medford Police. A male wearing a black hoodie and a mask with a skeleton's face entered Marcou Jewelers at the mall about 11:09 a.m. and smashed a jewelry case with a "small sledgehammer like tool," a police press release said. "After smashing the front of the display case, the suspect reached in and grabbed a large quantity of gold chains," the press release said. The store's manager chased the masked man until he exited the mall, fleeing on foot to the area of Linden Street, the press release said. Police and the K-9 unit actively searched the area for the suspect as of Sunday afternoon, but he remained …
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Somerville Police are looking for a suspect in a July 12 knifepoint robbery of a Sunoco gas station on Broadway.
The following is an announcement provided by Somerville Police: Somerville Police Looking to Identify Robbery Suspect Somerville Police are seeking to identify the suspect who robbed a local gas station near the Medford line. On July 12th, at about 8:45 p.m., the Sunoco Gas Station at 541 Broadway in Somerville was robbed at knifepoint. The store surveillance video shows the suspect arriving in a black sedan, possibly a Nissan Maxima, with a towel covering it’s license plate, then entered the store and walked up to the counter, where he spoke briefly to the clerk. The suspect then went back to his car briefly. He then came back into the store where he calmly walks behind the counter, pulled out a knife and demanded cash. The suspect fled …
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9:12 am on Monday, January 14, 2013
Good job Officer Donovan. I'm sorry that the media put where you live in the story. more ›