A Sandwich Beyond Repair By Natasha Ladhani Wellesley, MA---A local family business caught fire on Thursday and resulted in the building being completely burned down. Gasoline is suspected to have contributed to the fire. On September 5, The Linden Deli on Linden Street caught fire shortly after closing. The fire and police department are under investigation to find out the cause of this event. Resident Fred Klingensmith who lives across the street of the deli said, “I saw a silver sedan driving really quickly down Linden Street. After a short while, I heard and explosion and saw smoke coming out of the deli. I then called the police” “Once the authorities arrived, it was normal procedure,” said Fire Chief Greta Clark. “We found a puddle of gasoline inside and an abandoned car filled with empty gasoline containers, “she added. Both the Fire Chief and Larry Linden, owner of the deli, claimed that the Linden family had been receiving threatening messages.“For about a month, my family has been receiving messages threatening my restaurant and my family themselves,” Linden said. Clark added, “because of these messages we do believe the fire was intentional”. Three people have been hospitalized but their injuries are minor. The deli is far from being repaired, but Linden hopes that with the communities support, The Linden Deli will be serving its subs as soon as possible.
Natick, Massachusetts-- A night of studying ended with a bang when a local high school student crashed into a flower garden.
Last Sunday Gennifer Mcdoogle, 16, a student at Natick High, rammed her Honda Civic into her 64 year old neighbor’s garden. Mcdoogle claims to be driving home from a friend’s house at 12:05, on Dover road, when the accident occurred.
Neighbor Mary Schwartze was checking up on her garden at the time of the incident and although it was misty outside claims to have seen the whole thing. “I saw her speeding down the road and I quickly jumped out of the way, just avoiding her car,” Schwartze said, “It was completely intentional, Gennifer was trying to kill me.”
Mcdoogle denies these accounts and claims “I was merely swerving to avoid a cat that I had seen in the road and after stopping short a car smashed into the back of my car thrusting it into Schwartze’s garden.”
The Police Chief of Natick, Jon Doh, gave further evidence to the theory of a second car, stating there was a large dent in the back of Mcdoogle's vehicle.
Although Mcdoogle has a criminal record, including seven robberies dating back to the age of five, the police are still investigating the case.
At 8:57 PM on Tuesday September 3, a young teenage boy was seen dashing from Bertucci’s after covering its front door in pizza-themed graffiti.
The only actual eye witness, Margret Bloomfeld (87), provided a more descriptive image. She described it as a large picture of Mr. Bertucci’s face as a pizza, with peppers as eyebrows and pepperoni as freckles. According to Ms. Bloomfeld, curses also covered the whole front of the building.
“I saw the entire graffiti after watching my grandson - er, I mean the boy - run from the scene,” Ms. Bloomfeld said.
Ms. Bloomfeld also said that she cheered on the boy - who she claims she could not recognize this teenager due to her failing eyesight - as he ran from the scene. What she could make out was that the suspect was wearing a clown costume, with a white painted face and purple eyes.
“My eyes don’t work real well anymore, but my [13] cats have 20/20 vision, so what I couldn’t see - which was a lot - I asked them about. Yes, I talk to my cats,” she said.
Police are questioning the reliability of Ms. Bloomfeld’s testimony because of her vision problems and her very open hate for Mr. Betucci. One year before, Ms. Bloomfeld experienced a fall which broke her hip while in Bertucci’s. She then sued Mr. Bertucci, but lost and was never awarded any money.
When asked if he knew anything about this, Bertucci said, “She was a customer at one time. There was a lawsuit, but the details of it are confidential.”
Mr. Bertucci was the first person inside to notice the graffiti while making a pizza in his restaurant around 8:30 PM.
“It was profane,” was all Tony Bertucci had to say about this graffiti.
He then called 9-1-1, and the police arrived around twenty-five minutes later, closing the restaurant for investigation. It is now an active crime scene.
Bertucci’s is not expected to open for another few days.
“The restaurant will not be opened until the case is closed,” said Mr. Bertucci.
For now, police continue to investigate, but do not have any significant leads.
Wellesley-- Monday, at Roche Brothers, a man wearing an aqua ski mask allegedly held a cashier at gunpoint while stealing all of the money in the cash register.
Two witnesses, Joe Smyth the cashier and customer Jayne Dough, were in the building when the man walked in, took out the gun, stole all the money, and then escaped with the money into a black van waiting outside. After the robber left, both Dough and Smyth immediately called the police.
Dough, a customer present at the time of the crime, recalls that she and another customer were both frantic, but a third customer didn’t seem disturbed.
“One man had a calm expression on his face as he proceeded to look in the cereal aisle (soon after the crime). He had huge glasses and was carrying a black ski mask. I saw it when it fell out of his pocket and I picked it up for him,” said Dough.
The police searched for this alleged accomplice, but he could not be found.
Symth didn’t see this mysterious customer. According to Symth, the store wasn’t as packed as it usually was on a Monday. “I came in at 8:30 and up until the robber came, only a few customers were here all day. I was wondering if something had happened. Now I am wondering if the robber had set that up some how.”
Police still have no leads on who the men with the ski masks are. The aqua mask that the robber wore completely covered his face, and he was of average height and weight. They are searching Wellesley and other surrounding towns for the black van which he escaped in. Police will update the public if any new information is found.
Wellesley, Massachusetts- A fire at Linden Deli devastates the whole town of Wellesley late Thursday. Still, there is no conclusion.
Fred Clingensmith was writing a manuscript for a book in his home office when this incident happened on September 5.
“I saw a speedy gray sedan head towards the Linden Store around 8:30 PM. I just went back to work.” Clingensmith said, “After a few minutes, I looked at the Linden Store and saw a big fume of smoke. Immediately, I called the fire department.”
Great Klark, the Fire Chief of Wellesley, responded to the scene about 25 minutes after Clingensmith called.
“When I arrived, I saw the building in flames and glass broken.” Klark said, “We believed force entry was involved in this fire; it was not a simple accident.”
Linden Deli’s owner, Larry Linden, was at home when the fire happened. The Linden Store closes before 8:34 PM.
“I was driving home after closing the store. Around 8:40 PM, I was called from the Fire Department that my Deli was destroyed.” Linden said, “When I arrived, I saw a huge fire; I knew my Deli was gone.”
When asked about any suspicions of who could have created this fire, Linden received recent threats prior. Linden believes it was simply an arson who created this fire not an accident in the Deli.
“There was an empty gasoline tank near the Deli” said Linden. “The Fire Department believes Fat Joe from Tutto Italiano was the one who did this crime.”
Wellesley— A car full of empty gasoline tanks, months of threatening messages and an incinerated sub shop lead authorities to heighten the investigation on the fire at the Linden Deli.
On Thursday the beloved sandwich shop went up into flames after a silver car sped down Linden Street around 8p.m. the car was found with empty bottles of gasoline in the parking lot. The driver of this car was unknown but authorities suspect rival sandwich shop owner, Fat Joe.
Greta Klark, Wellesley Fire Chief, says “I wasn’t necessarily shocked that something would happen to Linden. For two weeks now we have been receiving reports of threatening messages targeted at Linden. We never took them seriously until now.”
Larry Linden, the owner added onto this by saying “Only true minions of the devil would destroy such a tasty sandwich shop.”
This “minion of the devil” may play out to be Fat Joe, owner of Tutto Italiano, rival sub shop. According to Klark, the car found previously belonged to Fat Joe’s wife.
The damage from this fire resulted in 3 injured firefighters. The fires were huge, eye witness, Fred Clingensmith describes it as a “huge plume of smoke shooting out of the building”.
The damage will take a long time to repair. Linden does not have insurance on the shop and says “I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’m hoping to rebuild with general donations of the public, who will be rewarded free sandwiches for their kindness.”
Rose garden rampage devastates local community: Nathan Chiu
Wellesley-- Police officers arrived on the scene of a car accident late Friday night, finding a demolished car and an unconscious driver lying in a rose garden. Police suspect that alcohol may have been involved in this accident.
On September 1st, after receiving a call from resident, Mary Schwartz, Police officers discovered a heavily damaged Honda Civic lying among a ravaged garden of roses. Officers found Gennifer McDoogel lying unconscious in the driver’s seat of this car. McDoogel was immediately rushed to the Newton-Wellesley hospital where she made a speedy recovery.
Upon recovering, McDoogel recalled the events preceding the accident.
“I was driving down Dover road when a 7 year old girl suddenly rushed across the street. There was a cat following this young girl and I swerved to avoid the cat. That caused me to slam into Ms. Schwartz’s rose garden,”McDoogel said.
Although the identity of the perpetrator remains unknown, local authorities suspect foul play and alcoholic misdemeanor may be responsible for this incident.
Prior to the accident, McDoogel explained that she was coming home from studying when she saw a suspicious car following her. After turning her Honda to avoid hitting the cat, McDoogel was struck by the mysterious black vehicle. McDoogel lost consciousness after hitting the dashboard and the following vehicle had left the scene by the time she regained her consciousness.
However, John Doh, chief of police, offered a different account of this accident. John Doh explained that police officers found McDoogel passed out from alcohol, not from the crash.
“When we found opened the car door, we found McDoogel unconscious, not from the impact, but from alcohol. Her clothes reeked of alcohol. Alcohol definitely played a role in this incident.” Doh said.
Natick --- A local community is asking questions this week after an accident that destroyed an elderly woman’s rose garden.
The accident occurred shortly after midnight on Sunday, on Route 135 in Natick near the Wellesley town line. Gennifer McDoogel, 16, of Natick, crashed her car into the front yard of an elderly woman, demolishing her garden.
John Doh, Chief of the Natick Police Department, says that the emergency communication center received several 911 calls around 12:10 AM early Sunday morning reporting a car accident. When police arrived on scene, they found McDoogel unconscious in her car in Schwartze’s garden.
The Natick Fire Department used the Jaws of Life to extricate McDoogel from her vehicle. Paramedics transported her to Newton-Wellesley Hospital, where she was cleared after doctors determined that she had sustained no major injuries.
According to McDoogel, she swerved to avoid a cat that ran out in the road ahead of her car. “After I pulled aside to avoid the cat, another car hit the back of my car, and pushed me off the road into the garden.” She said that she lost consciousness after hitting her head on the steering wheel.
“We believe McDoogel swerved to avoid a cat that ran out in the road,” said Doh. However, police disputed the rest of her story. Doh said that there is currently no evidence that any other cars involved in the accident. According to Doh, police also believe McDoogel was intoxicated at the time of the crash, though they don’t believe the crash its self was intentional.
Doh said that McDoogel’s blood alcohol level at the time of the crash was significantly over the legal limit. Charges against her are pending.
Schwartze, who knew McDoogel before the incident, is shocked that her roses were destroyed so suddenly. “I felt immediate anger,” she said. Unlike the police, Schwartze thinks the crash was no accident.
“She is my grandson’s ex-girlfriend,” said McDoogel. “I think it was a deliberate act.”
A Sandwich Beyond Repair
ReplyDeleteBy Natasha Ladhani
Wellesley, MA---A local family business caught fire on Thursday and resulted in the building being completely burned down. Gasoline is suspected to have contributed to the fire.
On September 5, The Linden Deli on Linden Street caught fire shortly after closing. The fire and police department are under investigation to find out the cause of this event.
Resident Fred Klingensmith who lives across the street of the deli said, “I saw a silver sedan driving really quickly down Linden Street. After a short while, I heard and explosion and saw smoke coming out of the deli. I then called the police”
“Once the authorities arrived, it was normal procedure,” said Fire Chief Greta Clark. “We found a puddle of gasoline inside and an abandoned car filled with empty gasoline containers, “she added.
Both the Fire Chief and Larry Linden, owner of the deli, claimed that the Linden family had been receiving threatening messages.“For about a month, my family has been receiving messages threatening my restaurant and my family themselves,” Linden said. Clark added, “because of these messages we do believe the fire was intentional”.
Three people have been hospitalized but their injuries are minor. The deli is far from being repaired, but Linden hopes that with the communities support, The Linden Deli will be serving its subs as soon as possible.
Accidental Revenge
ReplyDeleteBy Celia Golod
Natick, Massachusetts-- A night of studying ended with a bang when a local high school student crashed into a flower garden.
Last Sunday Gennifer Mcdoogle, 16, a student at Natick High, rammed her Honda Civic into her 64 year old neighbor’s garden. Mcdoogle claims to be driving home from a friend’s house at 12:05, on Dover road, when the accident occurred.
Neighbor Mary Schwartze was checking up on her garden at the time of the incident and although it was misty outside claims to have seen the whole thing. “I saw her speeding down the road and I quickly jumped out of the
way, just avoiding her car,” Schwartze said, “It was completely intentional, Gennifer was trying to kill me.”
Mcdoogle denies these accounts and claims “I was merely swerving to avoid a cat that I had seen in the road and after stopping short a car smashed into the back of my car thrusting it into Schwartze’s garden.”
The Police Chief of Natick, Jon Doh, gave further evidence to the theory of a second car, stating there was a large dent in the back of Mcdoogle's vehicle.
Although Mcdoogle has a criminal record, including seven robberies dating back to the age of five, the police are still investigating the case.
Clown Bandit Graffitis Pizza
ReplyDeleteBy: Caterina Baffa
At 8:57 PM on Tuesday September 3, a young teenage boy was seen dashing from Bertucci’s after covering its front door in pizza-themed graffiti.
The only actual eye witness, Margret Bloomfeld (87), provided a more descriptive image. She described it as a large picture of Mr. Bertucci’s face as a pizza, with peppers as eyebrows and pepperoni as freckles. According to Ms. Bloomfeld, curses also covered the whole front of the building.
“I saw the entire graffiti after watching my grandson - er, I mean the boy - run from the scene,” Ms. Bloomfeld said.
Ms. Bloomfeld also said that she cheered on the boy - who she claims she could not recognize this teenager due to her failing eyesight - as he ran from the scene. What she could make out was that the suspect was wearing a clown costume, with a white painted face and purple eyes.
“My eyes don’t work real well anymore, but my [13] cats have 20/20 vision, so what I couldn’t see - which was a lot - I asked them about. Yes, I talk to my cats,” she said.
Police are questioning the reliability of Ms. Bloomfeld’s testimony because of her vision problems and her very open hate for Mr. Betucci. One year before, Ms. Bloomfeld experienced a fall which broke her hip while in Bertucci’s. She then sued Mr. Bertucci, but lost and was never awarded any money.
When asked if he knew anything about this, Bertucci said, “She was a customer at one time. There was a lawsuit, but the details of it are confidential.”
Mr. Bertucci was the first person inside to notice the graffiti while making a pizza in his restaurant around 8:30 PM.
“It was profane,” was all Tony Bertucci had to say about this graffiti.
He then called 9-1-1, and the police arrived around twenty-five minutes later, closing the restaurant for investigation. It is now an active crime scene.
Bertucci’s is not expected to open for another few days.
“The restaurant will not be opened until the case is closed,” said Mr. Bertucci.
For now, police continue to investigate, but do not have any significant leads.
Robbery at Local Grocery Store
ReplyDeleteBy, Julia Clapham
Wellesley-- Monday, at Roche Brothers, a man wearing an aqua ski mask allegedly held a cashier at gunpoint while stealing all of the money in the cash register.
Two witnesses, Joe Smyth the cashier and customer Jayne Dough, were in the building when the man walked in, took out the gun, stole all the money, and then escaped with the money into a black van waiting outside. After the robber left, both Dough and Smyth immediately called the police.
Dough, a customer present at the time of the crime, recalls that she and another customer were both frantic, but a third customer didn’t seem disturbed.
“One man had a calm expression on his face as he proceeded to look in the cereal aisle (soon after the crime). He had huge glasses and was carrying a black ski mask. I saw it when it fell out of his pocket and I picked it up for him,” said Dough.
The police searched for this alleged accomplice, but he could not be found.
Symth didn’t see this mysterious customer. According to Symth, the store wasn’t as packed as it usually was on a Monday. “I came in at 8:30 and up until the robber came, only a few customers were here all day. I was wondering if something had happened. Now I am wondering if the robber had set that up some how.”
Police still have no leads on who the men with the ski masks are. The aqua mask that the robber wore completely covered his face, and he was of average height and weight. They are searching Wellesley and other surrounding towns for the black van which he escaped in. Police will update the public if any new information is found.
No More Subs!
ReplyDeleteBy: Ethan Chiu
Wellesley, Massachusetts- A fire at Linden Deli devastates the whole town of Wellesley late Thursday. Still, there is no conclusion.
Fred Clingensmith was writing a manuscript for a book in his home office when this incident happened on September 5.
“I saw a speedy gray sedan head towards the Linden Store around 8:30 PM. I just went back to work.” Clingensmith said, “After a few minutes, I looked at the Linden Store and saw a big fume of smoke. Immediately, I called the fire department.”
Great Klark, the Fire Chief of Wellesley, responded to the scene about 25 minutes after Clingensmith called.
“When I arrived, I saw the building in flames and glass broken.” Klark said, “We believed force entry was involved in this fire; it was not a simple accident.”
Linden Deli’s owner, Larry Linden, was at home when the fire happened. The Linden Store closes before 8:34 PM.
“I was driving home after closing the store. Around 8:40 PM, I was called from the Fire Department that my Deli was destroyed.” Linden said, “When I arrived, I saw a huge fire; I knew my Deli was gone.”
When asked about any suspicions of who could have created this fire, Linden received recent threats prior. Linden believes it was simply an arson who created this fire not an accident in the Deli.
“There was an empty gasoline tank near the Deli” said Linden. “The Fire Department believes Fat Joe from Tutto Italiano was the one who did this crime.”
Decline of a Sandwich Legacy
ReplyDeleteBy Olivia Gieger
Wellesley— A car full of empty gasoline tanks, months of threatening messages and an incinerated sub shop lead authorities to heighten the investigation on the fire at the Linden Deli.
On Thursday the beloved sandwich shop went up into flames after a silver car sped down Linden Street around 8p.m. the car was found with empty bottles of gasoline in the parking lot. The driver of this car was unknown but authorities suspect rival sandwich shop owner, Fat Joe.
Greta Klark, Wellesley Fire Chief, says “I wasn’t necessarily shocked that something would happen to Linden. For two weeks now we have been receiving reports of threatening messages targeted at Linden. We never took them seriously until now.”
Larry Linden, the owner added onto this by saying “Only true minions of the devil would destroy such a tasty sandwich shop.”
This “minion of the devil” may play out to be Fat Joe, owner of Tutto Italiano, rival sub shop. According to Klark, the car found previously belonged to Fat Joe’s wife.
The damage from this fire resulted in 3 injured firefighters. The fires were huge, eye witness, Fred Clingensmith describes it as a “huge plume of smoke shooting out of the building”.
The damage will take a long time to repair. Linden does not have insurance on the shop and says “I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’m hoping to rebuild with general donations of the public, who will be rewarded free sandwiches for their kindness.”
Rose garden rampage devastates local community:
ReplyDeleteNathan Chiu
Wellesley-- Police officers arrived on the scene of a car accident late Friday night, finding a demolished car and an unconscious driver lying in a rose garden. Police suspect that alcohol may have been involved in this accident.
On September 1st, after receiving a call from resident, Mary Schwartz, Police officers discovered a heavily damaged Honda Civic lying among a ravaged garden of roses. Officers found Gennifer McDoogel lying unconscious in the driver’s seat of this car. McDoogel was immediately rushed to the Newton-Wellesley hospital where she made a speedy recovery.
Upon recovering, McDoogel recalled the events preceding the accident.
“I was driving down Dover road when a 7 year old girl suddenly rushed across the street. There was a cat following this young girl and I swerved to avoid the cat. That caused me to slam into Ms. Schwartz’s rose garden,”McDoogel said.
Although the identity of the perpetrator remains unknown, local authorities suspect foul play and alcoholic misdemeanor may be responsible for this incident.
Prior to the accident, McDoogel explained that she was coming home from studying when she saw a suspicious car following her. After turning her Honda to avoid hitting the cat, McDoogel was struck by the mysterious black vehicle. McDoogel lost consciousness after hitting the dashboard and the following vehicle had left the scene by the time she regained her consciousness.
However, John Doh, chief of police, offered a different account of this accident. John Doh explained that police officers found McDoogel passed out from alcohol, not from the crash.
“When we found opened the car door, we found McDoogel unconscious, not from the impact, but from alcohol. Her clothes reeked of alcohol. Alcohol definitely played a role in this incident.” Doh said.
Drunk Teen Driver Destroys Rose Garden
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Natick --- A local community is asking questions this week after an accident that destroyed an elderly woman’s rose garden.
The accident occurred shortly after midnight on Sunday, on Route 135 in Natick near the Wellesley town line. Gennifer McDoogel, 16, of Natick, crashed her car into the front yard of an elderly woman, demolishing her garden.
John Doh, Chief of the Natick Police Department, says that the emergency communication center received several 911 calls around 12:10 AM early Sunday morning reporting a car accident. When police arrived on scene, they found McDoogel unconscious in her car in Schwartze’s garden.
The Natick Fire Department used the Jaws of Life to extricate McDoogel from her vehicle. Paramedics transported her to Newton-Wellesley Hospital, where she was cleared after doctors determined that she had sustained no major injuries.
According to McDoogel, she swerved to avoid a cat that ran out in the road ahead of her car. “After I pulled aside to avoid the cat, another car hit the back of my car, and pushed me off the road into the garden.” She said that she lost consciousness after hitting her head on the steering wheel.
“We believe McDoogel swerved to avoid a cat that ran out in the road,” said Doh. However, police disputed the rest of her story. Doh said that there is currently no evidence that any other cars involved in the accident. According to Doh, police also believe McDoogel was intoxicated at the time of the crash, though they don’t believe the crash its self was intentional.
Doh said that McDoogel’s blood alcohol level at the time of the crash was significantly over the legal limit. Charges against her are pending.
Schwartze, who knew McDoogel before the incident, is shocked that her roses were destroyed so suddenly. “I felt immediate anger,” she said. Unlike the police, Schwartze thinks the crash was no accident.
“She is my grandson’s ex-girlfriend,” said McDoogel. “I think it was a deliberate act.”