One-Day-Only Pot Shop Worker In Dorchester Helped Armed Robbers Find The Goods, Prosecutors Say

One-Day-Only Pot Shop Worker In Dorchester Helped Armed Robbers Find The Goods, Prosecutors Say

A Roxbury woman who used a fake name to get work at a marijuana shop in Dorchester helped two armed men steal $27,000 in cash and drugs during her only day on the job, prosecutors say.

The 27-year-old woman claimed that the two men held up the store Monday, August 8. But surveillance video shows the two men showed up 35 minutes before the robbery and retreated after the woman gestured to them, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney's office.

Reparations?  Anti-Racist Training?  Amherst Officials Demanding Changes In Town’s Police Department Over Late-Night Interaction With Teen-Agers
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Reparations? Anti-Racist Training? Amherst Officials Demanding Changes In Town’s Police Department Over Late-Night Interaction With Teen-Agers

Matthew McDonald

A late-night interaction between police and teen-agers in Amherst over a noise complaint and a broken-down car has led some town officials to demand reparations for victims of police harassment.

The town's Community Safety & Social Justice Committee has called for creating a victims compensation fund under the committee's jurisdiction. The town's Human Rights Commission declared the incident "a human rights violation."

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