Category: Assault

MBTA launches campaign to protect T employees from assaults

Boston Globe | By Matt Rocheleau |  May 6, 2013 The MBTA is launching a new campaign to warn riders not to assault T employees. “Think twice before putting your hands on T staff. We will find you, arrest you and prosecute you,” Transit Police Chief Paul MacMillan says in a recorded public service announcement that …

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Assaults on T workers on the rise

Boston Herald | April 10, 2013 | By Gary J. Remal and Richard Weir Assaults on MBTA employees are up dramatically this year, T cops say, after arresting a rider they say spat on and then slugged a bus driver in Malden’s Oak Grove Station in the kind of fare dispute that the T police …

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Wakefield teen charged in assault on MBTA bus driver

Boston Herald | Colneth Smiley Jr. | Tuesday, April 9, 2013 A Wakefield teen was arrested this morning after MBTA Transit Police say he spat on and attacked an MBTA bus driver who refused to let the wannabe passenger ride for free at Oak Grove Station in Malden. MBTA Transit Police were called to the …

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