By Michele McPhee/ The Beat
Boston Herald Police Bureau Chief
Monday, June 11, 2007 - Updated: 06:14 AM EST
What does it take to go to jail in this city?
Brazenly bolt past Mayor Thomas M. Menino with a loaded gun and get tackled by a Boston police commander, like Adelino Monteiro, 20, did last summer, and you have no worries. Not even if you’re an illegal immigrant, like Monteiro.
This month, a Suffolk County jury found him not guilty, despite the testimony of BPD Deputy Superintendent Dan Linsky, who tore a rotator cuff tackling Monteiro. Never mind that they recovered the weapon within feet of the mayor or that gang cops said they spotted him packing minutes after shots were reported fired.
Murder a Boston cop, and maim another, by planting a bomb under your father’s car - like Thomas Shay did in 1991 - the explosive detonating as it was being examined by the BPD bomb unit, and you get sentenced to a measly 10 years.
That’s 10 years for killing a cop and for ending the career of another’s.
Weeks after Shay was released, he violated the conditions of his probation, fled the state, and was captured and brought back to face the same federal judge who gave him the despicably short sentence.
Judge Rya Zobel’s punishment for Shay after he was caught running from the law just weeks after serving time?
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