Shawn Donovan, 29, was indicted today on witness intimidation charges for allegedly telling a photographer shooting a party at Revolution Rock Bar to delete snapshots of Donovan and Mario Mendez, who is charged with blasting another clubgoer outside the venue. Donovan also lied to detectives about knowing Mendez, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel Conley said.
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Cops have also cited the bar with a rarely used violation for “non-cooperation,” claiming employees refused to help in the probe. Police became so frustrated they posted video surveillance on YouTube allegedly showing Mendez leaving the club and then unloading a string of gunshots.
Police later arrested Mendez and charged him with the shooting, as well as weapons and drug violations. Prosecutors said cops searching Mendez's Chelsea home found three loaded handguns, 99 vials of steroids, 900 Ecstasy pills, cocaine and OxyContin.
Neither Donovan nor his attorney could not immediately be reached for comment.
My comment on this is from a poster to the Herald story. "How does a 29 year old own a bar in Boston?"
FBI Arrests Gang Leader For Extorting Musicians
Dept. of Justice Release:
CHICAGO—The self-proclaimed founding member of a street gang that purports to exert control through use of violence over hardcore punk rock music in clubs and concert venues in major cities nationwide was arrested yesterday by FBI agents in Los Angeles on a federal extortion charge filed in Chicago. The defendant, Elgin Nathan James, allegedly extorted $5,000 from an unnamed victim, a popular recording artist from the Chicago area, while the victim's band was on tour in late 2005 and early 2006, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, and Robert D. Grant, Special Agent-in-Charge of the Chicago Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced today.
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