Shelter kitchen theft prevalent, report says

Shelter kitchen theft prevalent, report says

By Stephen Smith
Globe Staff / February 23, 2011

A culture of theft and lax supervision pervaded a kitchen operated by the city of Boston that feeds 2,000 meals a day to the homeless and city workers, an internal investigation has concluded.

The review by the top lawyer at the Boston Public Health Commission found evidence that workers at the kitchen on Long Island were skimming city-purchased food — including steaks, turkeys, hot dogs, hamburgers, and cakes — for their own private weddings, tailgate and birthday parties.

The review, obtained yesterday by the Globe through a public records request, also said that one worker stole $1,600 in cash from the Serving Our Selves kitchen, widely known by its SOS acronym.

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Police: T driver attacked after rebuking woman changing clothes

Police: T driver attacked after rebuking woman changing clothes
By Richard Weir  |   Tuesday, November 30, 2010  |  http://www.bostonherald.com  |  Local Coverage

Natacha Andre.
Photo by Herald file

A 36-year-old homeless woman was ordered held on $5,000 bail yesterday after police said she attacked an MBTA bus driver in Mattapan, spitting in her face and smacking her with a metal pipe after the operator told her she couldn’t change her clothes on the bus.

Natacha Andre, 36, is charged with assault and battery and wrongful interference with the operation of an MBTA vehicle following Sunday’s 12:30 p.m. tirade that sent the driver to a hospital to be treated for bruises and a sprained left arm, according to a police report.

It is the second time in as many weeks that violence erupting on the T has led to arrests and injuries. On Nov. 19, Carlos Espinoza, 28, of Brighton was charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon — a 1.7 liter tequila bottle — following a fight on a Green Line trolley on Commonwealth Avenue.

Police said after assaulting and threatening two men and a woman, all from Waltham, Espinoza then smashed the bottle over one of the men’s faces, slicing his lip.

Sunday’s mayhem broke out when Andre boarded the Route 31 bus without paying and, after being ordered by the driver to come up front and fork over her fare, returned to the back of the bus and repeatedly rang the bell, police said.

The driver then noticed Andre removing her clothes and “told her that she could not change her clothes on the bus,” the report said.

Once off the bus, Andre allegedly brandished a “long metal pipe” and struck the side of the bus before smacking the driver through an open window, hitting her left arm, the report said.

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