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Boston man arrested for allegedly robbing Cambridge bank Charlie McKenna
A Boston man was arrested Friday on a warrant charging him with one count of the armed and masked robbery of a TD Bank branch on Massachusetts Avenue in November, Cambridge police said.
Juan Cruz, 48, allegedly passed a note, claiming to have a firearm, to an employee at the bank on Nov. 23. It was the first bank robbery in Cambridge since 2018, according to a statement from Cambridge police.
There is no evidence he was armed, said Jeremy Warnick, a police spokesman.
The bank robbery was the first in a string of four to hit the city late last year in a three-week span.
White Massachusetts Man Facing Murder Charges After Shouting The N-Word and Running Over Black Man in Road Rage Altercation
Henry Tapia (Image: GoFundMe)
A white Massachusetts man is facing a murder charge after he allegedly shouted racial slurs at a Black victim before running him over and killing him. According to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, the District Attorney and Belmont Chief of Police have confirmed that the suspect has been arrested and charged in the victim’s death.
According to WCVB, Dean Kapsalis has been charged with the death of Henry Tapia, 35, of Boston, who suffered life-threatening injuries after being struck by Kapsalis’ vehicle. The two were embroiled in a road rage incident that led to an altercation between the two men.
Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan is pursuing murder charges against a man who allegedly used his pickup truck to kill Henry Tapia, a 34-year-old father of three, in Belmont last week.
Last Tuesday, January 19th, at around 4:20 p.m., Belmont police responded to a 911 call to find Henry Tapia, of Boston, injured in the middle of Upland Road, according to a statement from the Middlesex County district attorney’s office.
According to police, Dean Kapsalis, a 54 year-old white man from Hudson, was involved in an argument with the victim and began yelling racist slurs at Tapia, a Black man.
Tapia allegedly began to walk back to his vehicle when Kapsalis drove his Dodge Dakota pickup truck into Tapia and dragged his body a short distance along the pavement before he fled from the scene.