Transit police

It’s not something you see every day in Massachusetts: a commuter sitting in front of a television and playing a PlayStation while at an MBTA stop. But when that took place in Cambridge on Tuesday during the evening commute, Transit police received a phone call, they said. Officers responded to Harvard Station around 4:20 p.m. on July 6 after someone…

A Rhode Island man was arrested Friday night after he allegedly assaulted an older person who he thought stole his cell phone at the MBTA’s South Station in Boston. Transit police officers responded to commuter rail track 7 at South Station just before 6 p.m. for a radio call for an unknown disturbance. Officers observed Nestor Herrera, 37, of Providence,…

A Boston teen who was heard yelling anti-police rhetoric allegedly smashed out a transit police cruiser’s window and threatened to harm the officer. Habtamu Mesene, 18, was arrested after the incident outside the MBTA’s Harvard Square station around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, transit police said. According to police, while an officer was inside the MBTA station on a call for...

Two Boston men have been arrested in connection to an assault that happened last week at one of the city’s MBTA stations, officials said Saturday. Transit police say Damos Reddick, 36, and Justin Mackenzie, 32, were arrested on Thursday for unarmed robbery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Around 9 p.m. Wednesday, transit police say a 38-year-old man…

Two brothers were arrested Tuesday night after MBTA Transit Police said they threatened a bus driver with a knife because he wouldn’t let them board his out-of-service bus in Watertown. Transit police responded to the Watertown Square bus yard at 11:55 p.m. for a report of two men threatening an MBTA bus driver.

A Massachusetts man was arrested Friday after he allegedly punched and kicked another man at an MBTA Commuter Rail Station, according to Transit Police.

One man has been arrested and authorities are searching for several others after an alleged attack on a 60-year-old man with a cane at an MBTA stop in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. The victim, who asked to be identified as “Alex,” says he has a disability and uses his cane to get around. “They hurt me, and I did everything I...

A man in his 50s was killed overnight when he was hit by an MBTA Commuter Rail train in Chelsea, Massachusetts, according to transit police. Authorities said they received a call at about 11:30 p.m. Tuesday of a person who was possibly hit by a train near Everett and Maple Streets.

Hundreds of people experienced a long commute home at the end of the holiday weekend in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority’s Red Line saw delays Monday night after an incident at the Central station. People were evacuated from train cars and the station was closed for two hours after a medical emergency on the tracks. Transit police say...

A man who was hit by an MBTA train Saturday has been pronouced dead by police. Around 12:15 a.m., transit police arrived at the Orange Line track at State Street Station to see a man was hit by a subway train, according to officials.

A 29-year-old man was arrested Saturday after he allegedly exposed himself to a passenger on an MBTA Orange Line train. Transit Police said they responded to a call of a lewd act at about 3 p.m. Thursday at the MBTA Forest Hills Station. There, they met a woman who told officers she was approached by a man who asked her...

Authorities are investigating after a pedestrian was struck by a Commuter Rail train Thursday afternoon in Concord, Massachusetts. The incident happened at 12:50 p.m. at the MBTA Concord Station on Sudbury Road. Transit Police said the 70-year-old female victim who was struck by an inbound train on the Fitchburg line sustained serious injuries. The victim, who has not been identified,...

A 70-year-old woman was hospitalized Thursday after being struck by a Commuter Rail train in Concord, Massachusetts.

A mask-wearing man who allegedly assaulted another man at an MBTA station in Boston has been arrested. Transit police say the assault happened at about 7 a.m. on Wednesday at the Green Street Station in Jamaica Plain soon after the 31-year-old victim first encountered the alleged assailant. The victim told officials that an unknown man put on a face mask...

Transit police say a man was trespassing on the right of way in the area of 248 Essex Street when he was struck by an inbound train on the Gloucester line.

A person was struck and killed by an MBTA Commuter Rail train Saturday evening. Transit police say a man was trespassing on the right of way in the area of 248 Essex Street when he was struck by an inbound train on the Gloucester line. The man, who has not been identified, was struck near Montserrat Station in Beverly and...

A former MBTA police officer who allegedly beat a homeless man and two sergeants accused of helping him cover it up have been indicted, according to Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins. Based on an investigation, indictments charge former Transit Police Officer Dorston Bartlett, 65, of Lynn, with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and violating a person’s civil...

A Massachusetts man is facing charges after authorities say he beat his dog at an MBTA stop Tuesday evening in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood. Michael Webb, 26, of Natick, is facing animal cruelty charges following his arrest by transit police at the Ashmont Station. Transit police said they were called to the station at 6:45 p.m. for a report of a...

A car collided with an MBTA Commuter Rail train Monday night in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Lawrence police responded at 5:34 p.m. to the accident at the railroad crossing on Andover Street in South Lawrence. The driver of the car was not injured. The car sustained front end damage.