BOSTON – A Jamaica Plain teenager was ordered to “conditional home confinement” after facing a judge Monday on charges he was among the youths who attacked a woman at an MBTA station, officials said. throw away his grocery bag and randomly throw food in his face. assault, the district attorney said.
Saul Diaz, 18, was charged with unarmed robbery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said in a statement Monday. A 16-year-old girl was also arrested in the incident and faces similar charges.
Judge Michael Bolden released Diaz on personal recognizance, but ordered home confinement from 4 p.m. to 6 a.m. on weekdays, with the purpose of attending school, and home confinement without conditions on Saturdays and Sundays.
Bolden also ordered Diaz not to go to the Broadway MBTA station.
Prosecutors allege that Diaz and several other youths last week grabbed a bag of groceries from a woman who was crossing the red line, threw the items, then hit the woman with them and injured her nose, Hayden said.
At about 3:38 p.m. Thursday, MBTA police saw the victim, a 21-year-old woman, sitting on a bench on the Broadway station platform, crying, Hayden said. The victim told police he had been on a Red Line train and saw a group of teenagers arguing with someone. One of the juveniles, a woman, turned to the victim and said, “What are you looking at?
As the young woman got off the train at the Broadway station, she and a second member of the group, later identified as Diaz, took a bag of groceries from the victim and threw her items onto the platform. They then picked up items and threw them at the victim, Hayden said.
The victim told police she was hit in the nose with a pear. Police noted that the victim’s nose was swollen and bleeding. The victim was taken to Tufts Medical Center for treatment.
Using descriptions provided by the victim and surveillance footage, police identified Diaz and the young woman. The two were arrested on Friday.
“This is inexcusable conduct that can undermine the public’s confidence in their ability to use public transportation safely and efficiently,” Hayden said. “Public transport is crucial to the economic viability of our region, and when something like this happens, a passenger who is attacked, unprovoked and injured in the process, it’s an assault not just on them, but on the whole system”.
Diaz is due back in court on June 21 for a probable cause hearing.
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