Category: Assault

Boston ranks 3rd in national survey of best cities for public transportation

Daily Free Press | Published Jan 30, 2014 | By Sarah Capungan Boston was ranked number three in Walk Score’s “Best U.S. Cities for Public Transportation” report, released Tuesday. Transit scores were given on a 100-point scale and determined by the average resident’s ability to access public transportation. Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority received a transit score of …

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MBTA Employee Assaulted With a Cane

By Steve Annear | Boston Daily | January 24, 2014 An MBTA rider who apparently didn’t want to pay his fare started swinging his cane at two MBTA employees and a bystander, after one of the employees tried to shuffle him out of a Green Line station on Friday afternoon, according to T officials and …

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Somerville man sentenced to jail for harassing MBTA employee

Joseph Balistreri

Boston Globe | December 27, 2013 | By Brock Parker A Somerville man has been sentenced to jail after he pleaded guilty to harassment of an MBTA employee and violating an injunction prohibiting him from threatening any person because of his or her race. Joseph Balistreri, 39, pleaded guilty Friday in Suffolk Superior Court to …

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