Pondside Looking to Start Crime Watch

Though it’s been a (somewhat) quiet two weeks since the first of two gunpoint robberies near Eliot Street, neighbors are still signing up members interested in participating in a crime watch.

City Counselor Matt O’Malley emailed a group of neighbors offering help in creating a crime watch, according to an email from Abigail Normal, director of the Eliot School. Norman has been handling communication on behalf of the neighborhood since the Feb. 27 and Feb. 28 holdups.

Those interested in participating in a crime watch should contact:

Ture Richard Turnbull

Jamaica Plain Liaison

Office of Matt O'Malley

Ture.Turnbull@cityofboston.gov

Office: 617-635-4220

A teacher at the Eliot School was robbed at gunpoint Feb. 27, and a similar robbery took place Feb. 28 in the vicinity took place on Holbrook Street near the entrance to the Eliot School yard Thursday night, according to a police report and an email obtained by Jamaica Plain Patch.

Police are still looking for the robber, who is described as a black non-Hispanic male, about 20 years of age, 5’9”- 6’1”, slim build, wearing a zippered gray hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, running sneakers with white strings and in possession of a handgun. It is assumed that the suspect is operating an unknown type of motor vehicle based on the time of the robberies, distance and time it took the suspect to get from Jamaica Plain to Mattapan. Suspect likely used the Jamaica Way and Morton Street to get away from the area. The area of the robberies borders the city of Brookline.

Police recently arrested someone who was fraudulently soliciting door to door on Eliot Street, but this arrest was not related to the gun-point robberies, Norman said.