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Multiple arrests made over St. Patrick’s Day weekend amid ‘record’ parade turnout
Boston police arrested 10 people on parade day on various charges including disorderly conduct and assault and battery.
Nearly a dozen people were arrested at the iconic South Boston St. Patrick’s Day parade as Sunday’s event drew “record” crowds of some 1 million people.
Boston police spokesperson Michael Torigian said the department arrested a total of 10 people at Sunday’s Saint Patrick’s Day parade on a variety of charges including disorderly conduct and assault and battery. Suspects are expected to be arraigned in South Boston District Court.
An MBTA Transit Police sergeant also made an arrest after noticing a “highly intoxicated” 26-year-old man with a gun among the parade crowd around Andrew Square.
Sunday’s parade, which started at Broadway Station and followed a 3.5 mile path before ending in Andrew Square, drew “record crowds,” NBC 10 Boston reported.
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The organizers of the parade, South Boston Allied War Veterans Council, did not immediately return requests for comment by Boston.com about the crowd size.
The turnout prompted some problems for some South Boston residents and the MBTA, which announced at around 12:30 p.m. Sunday that select Red Line trains would bypass Broadway Station. Around an hour later, the transit company said all trains on the line would skip the station due to “heavy crowds” showing up for the parade.
Service to the station resumed at about 4 p.m.
Several citizen complaints were also made with the city during the festivities.
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“These drunken idiots ripped the sign for D street and Bolton out of the ground (and filmed themselves doing it),” one complaint said. The complainant included two photos of a group of people holding the sign, which had been removed from the ground.
On Saturday, State Police stopped a plane on the tarmac of the Logan airport to arrest a citizen of Ireland who traveled to Boston for the weekend for allegedly raping a woman at a hotel in downtown Boston.
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