Howie Carr: Boston Fire lieutenant’s arraignment a crack in Norfolk County hackerama

It may have been the busiest Friday afternoon ever at the Francis X Bellotti Courthouse in Quincy certainly in August The hacks couldn t even take an early slide to the Cape they were so nervous and discombobulated The cops had brought in a millionaire perp and maybe for the first time ever in Norfolk County the hackerama couldn t fix the scenario The defendant was a -a-year Boston fire lieutenant named Joshua Thompson The sheriff transported him to the courthouse in handcuffs from the county jail in Dedham where he s been locked up since Wednesday From gold bars to behind bars don t they know who Lt Thompson is and more importantly who he s related to The judges certainly knew They all ran away from his dangerousness hearing citing the traditional connections How predictable They had to import a judge from outside the county Likewise District Attorney Meatball Morrissey s minions yearned to give this one a good leaving-alone In Norfolk County nobody ever gets prosecuted unless they don t amount to nothing or maybe come from Fall River like Karen Read The hack ADA s understood very well who Josh Thompson is And in this looming post-Meatball era in Norfolk County it would not be a good career move to prosecute someone that wired The short straw to appear in court was completely drawn by a ham-and-egger prosecutor named Mark Assad That ll teach Assad to give Meatball more than a miserly contribution next time Thompson was lugged by the Milton police after his wife got a restraining order against him She communicated that he was still sitting on a huge arsenal at their fabulous mansion on Adams Street It s in the absolute best part of town even more posh than Hinckley Road where Gov Deval Patrick and the late crooked state senator Brian Multiple Choice Joyce were once Beautiful People together Inside Thompson s five-million-dollar castle the cops located five assault-style rifles five handguns including one in a cooler at the front door rounds of ammunition as well as a drug stash of assorted pills and powders he was charged with meth trafficking Doesn t the Boston FD have random drug tests Hmmmm The Milton cops also discovered surveillance cameras inside the house Thompson s estranged wife pregnant with their fourth child had earlier informed the court that he d removed all the smoke detectors to install the cameras Nothing was mentioned in the court documents but the cops have been buzzing privately for days now about what they saw on those videos The gossip you can hear in the halls of the Francis X Bellotti courthouse in Quincy on a Friday afternoon in August When he was arrested Thompson apparently couldn t believe it Whatever happened to professional courtesy Thompson s father Peter came out of Quincy Point and made big bucks in the steel business Daddy takes care of all the pols over the years to Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch another to state Sen Nick Collins of South Boston Josh Thompson has also duked to Collins At one time as a City of Boston employee Thompson used an address in Ward which is in Collins district In court Friday the prosecutor mentioned that there was yet another protective order against Thompson involving a business associate in a enhancement deal that had gone sour As with the wife who kept her maiden name by the way the associate can t be identified because he too is a victim But this other guy who was petrified of Thompson is the brother of a local politician According to statements in court Thompson was accused of showing up with crazy leaflets at the school attended by the children of his politically connected business associate That s certain scary stuff There was also graffiti spray-painted on the pol s brother s house Thompson served in the military When he got back he dated a beautiful slightly older woman who was also from Braintree When she died of cancer in at age Thompson was described in the obituaries as her loving companion Then he took up with his current wife who is also a blonde looker as you can see from a photo of the once-loving couple on the BFD Facebook page They were married in a lavish big-bucks wedding in Dennis Port He was flipping properties and making the big bucks or so it seemed At the BFD he was involved in a rescue in the North End in branding him forever after at least until Friday as a hero jake He was assigned to the firehouse on Hanover Street If you ranked high enough in the Quincy hackerama you might be advised by the county capos that when dining out in the North End you needn t pay those usurious parking rates Just drop your car at the firehouse and mention Lt Thompson Let him know who you sent and where you were from as long as it was from somewhere in Norfolk County preferably Quincy or Braintree But by Friday the uber-connected lieutenant revealed himself jammed up at the Francis X Bellotti Courthouse How the mighty are fallen Related Articles Howie Carr Suffolk Sheriff Tompkins surrenders high life Howie Carr Trump broke the Dems Howie Carr Stuck in the news spin cycle Howie Carr Walk of shame a constant outside Massachusetts courts Howie Carr Now spike corrupt trooper s -a-month pension This is a guy with an in-law who used to work for an earlier corrupt Norfolk County DA a guy who is somewhat related to a retired state cop who once ranked even higher in the MSP hack hierarchy than Michael Proctor Compared to Joshua Thompson and his kinsmen the McAlberts of Canton were mere liegemen in the local hackerama And yet since there were no corpses his fellow Democrat apparatchiks couldn t rule it a suicide as they did with murder victim Sandra Birchmore They couldn t claim it was self-defense against a crazy guy with toy gun as they did with Juston Root They couldn t cover up their hack pal s crimes by planting tail light fragments at the scene because the Milton police unlike the Keystone Kops of Canton were authentically checking out the closed-circuit cameras Joshua Thompson hosed by his fellow payroll patriots on a dog-day afternoon in August And to think that it happened at the Francis X Bellotti Courthouse Boston Fire photoBoston Lt Joshua Thompson and his wife at his promotion ceremony a meager years ago Boston Fire photo