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  • Swampscott boy, 13, hurt by homemade bomb

    05/02/2008 9:15:26 AM PDT · by raccoonradio · 68 replies · 4+ views
    Salem (MA) News ^ | 05/02/08 | Bruno Matarazzo Jr
    SWAMPSCOTT — A middle-school student had the ends of two of his fingers blown off yesterday by a homemade bomb that went off inside his Melvin Avenue home, authorities said. The victim's brother said rescue workers could find only one of the fingertips. The 13-year-old victim, identified by family and neighbors as Joel Surette, was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston by ambulance. "First, he was screaming for five minutes," said his brother, Michael, 17, "He said, 'I can't believe I blew off my fingers.'" Joanne Schumann, who lives two houses from the Surettes, was eating dinner with her...
  • Boston Teen Arrested in McAllen Break-In

    09/08/2004 2:38:14 PM PDT · by fidelio · 140 replies · 3,289+ views
    KRGV-TV ^ | 8 Sep 04 | KRGV
    Boston Teen Arrested in McAllen Break-In An 18-year-old Massachusetts man has been charged today with breaking into a McAllen pawn shop and stealing handguns. An officer found Atbin Hoshang Forghan of Canton, Massachusetts, outside Danny's Pawn Shop before dawn. Forghan allegedly was carrying stolen munitions, a bulletproof vest and a switchblade. Forghan was arraigned today on charges of burglary and possessing prohibited weapons. Bond is 550-thousand dollars. Investigators say Forghan traveled to McAllen by bus from the Boston area earlier this week and he had visited the pawn shop. McAllen police also contacted Homeland Security officials. An investigator with the...