A Dorchester man, Collin Wallace, 34, threw Back Bay into disarray, alluding to an explosive threat to muster power over cash and fear over reason. As darkness began to settle on Tuesday evening, the South End's D-4 patrolmen answered the clarion call for justice at about 6:35 p.m. converging on the chaos at 86 Massachusetts Avenue, where Wallace's alleged master plan of armed robbery was unraveling according to the Boston Police Department's official report.
Wallace, reportedly not content with just the threat of a gun, upped the ante by menacing with claims of a bomb ready to rend the air should his demands meet the wall of defiance, the police further noted. Drama peaked as the suspect, his back against the proverbial wall, sought refuge atop a small roof, a scramble for higher ground, a metaphor for the fleeting high ground of his choices, both literally and figuratively until police rendered his escape moot, surrounding him, reclaiming the narrative and the stolen currency.
A Boston Municipal Court date now the next step on Wallace's calendar, he's facing a litany of charges: Two counts of armed robbery, bomb threat with serious public alarm, and intimidation of a witness, the police detail intensely laying bare the stark list of his alleged transgressions.
