In 2018, gang unit cops monitoring a memorial for a slain gang member arrested a couple of the man’s fellow D Street “associates,” the cops wrote. The “small summary” of several incidents that the cops provided in the report illuminates that a bit further. The Morse Street gang, named after a small side street in the Four Corners area of Dorchester, has been more active lately in the city. That, he wrote, “is attributed to the D Street Development being territory to both D Street/Morton Street Bricks/Latin King and Morse Street gang associates.”Ī community source said the D Street gang has long caused trouble in the area. He wrote that “the D Street Housing Development has been statistically proven as the most violent section of the South Boston neighborhood” in terms of the number of calls for shots fired. This police report is somewhat unusual in the detail the author, gang unit Officer Jonathan O’Brien, went to in elaborating on specific concerns in the D Street projects area off of West Broadway, listing off various suspected gang associates the cops believed were present and a description of gang activity there. Prosecutors said they will seek to revoke Martinez-Perello’s bail on an open trafficking case out of Norfolk County. Martinez-Perello, 23, is charged with illegal possession of a firearm, illegal possession of ammunition and resisting arrest, and will remain held pending a dangerousness hearing Friday.

Gun dogs, too, search the area, but found nothing else. Police pat-frisked others, they wrote, but all of those searches came up clean. The gun had 10 rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber, police wrote.Ĭops said “a large and unruly crowd” formed, with people yelling at the officers, who called in backup. 40-cal Smith & Wesson 4003 with large-capacity feeding device. The hard object in his pants indeed was a gun, cops say: a. Martinez-Perello then tried to break away and reached for his waistband, cops say, but they tackled him to the ground and arrested him after a struggle. Cops pat-frisked “Perello’s front waistband area and felt a hard-metallic object consistent with the shape and feel of a firearm,” according to documents. The man then began to walk away, pinning his arm to his waist. The male, later identified as Junior Martinez-Perello immediately pointed toward the videographer shouting “tell them its just a video, we’re just filming a video.” Per the police report, they focused on a “heavy-set Hispanic male who was outside the basketball court being filmed by a videographer. The plainclothes cops, from Boston Police, Massachusetts State Police and MBTA Transit Police, rolled in in force in a “convoy of unmarked black Ford Explorer police cruisers” to the area of the field in the middle of the D Street projects. Cops say the D Street projects in South Boston are a hotspot of gang activity - with a high-capacity gun bust at an alleged Latin Kings-affiliated music video shoot providing just the latest example.Īn “active gang investigation” led a joint gang unit of local and state police on Tuesday night to Orton Field in South Boston, where cops had learned a “large contingency of D Street/Latin Kings gang associates,” including at least six known gang members, were shooting a music video, per a police report following the arrest of one man who’s now behind bars.Ĭops wrote that the gang unit - the Youth Violence Strike Force, as the police officially call it - decided to move on the area because music video shoots by gangs often involve “illegal firearm activity from the group filming, as well as rivals who seek to take advantage of a large conglomerate of enemies in one setting.”

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