THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2018 Owner catches car thief in the act in MBTA garage By Gayla Cawley tention, until he walked up to the driver’s ITEM STAFF side door and saw a man with tools and a knife trying to hotwire the car. LYNN — Fredy Hincapie, a 23-year-old Fredy Hincapie Hincapie said the man had the cables Lynn resident, stopped a man from steal- with his 1994 Jeep ing his car from the MBTA garage earlier open and had dismantled the steering Grand Cherokee this month. column. that he caught Hincapie was walking back to the “When I show up to my door, the driv- someone break- downtown garage from work on July 12 er’s side door, I see someone in there,” ing into while it shortly after 6 p.m., and was startled to Hincapie said. “My rst thought is wait, was parked in the see a man sitting in the driver’s seat of this is not my car (and then) oh, this is MBTA garage. his 1994 Jeep Cherokee Country. my car. So, basically said, whoa, what’s He was talking on the phone with his ITEM PHOTO | mother and wasn’t paying too much at- GARAGE, A7 OWEN O’ROURKE OUR OPINION BEYOND WALLS, PART II Lynn should be T’d off The city of Lynn needs the Blue Line extension. Why can’t anybody at the state level understand that? The simple unalterable truth is that Lynn is never going to reach its potential without rapid transit linking it to Bos- ton. This has been proven conclusively through research, debates, studies, and the eye test: you have noticed the empty MBTA parking garage, right? Commuter rail doesn’t work for Lynn. And until state of cials, including the governor next door, realize it, we are all just spitting into the wind. Extending the Blue Line to Lynn is one of the topics discussed in the Massa- chusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s broad-sweeping, big-thinking, just-re- leased “Focus40” report. But anyone who is ready to run down to the commuter rail garage and buy a Charlie Card should give the 68-page report at least a passing glance. Transit improvements aimed at bene- ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK ting Lynn are lumped in Focus40 under Rob Jellie, a member of IUPAT DC #35, pressure-washes the side of Beden Hardware in prepa- categories titled “Big Ideas” and “What’s Next.” While categories in the report ti- ration for the Beyond Walls mural festival. tled “We’re Doing” and “We’re Planning” scope out projects envisioned for execution organizing. By Bella diGrazia through 2040, the “We’re Imagining” cat- Preparations ITEM STAFF “What’s great is our members that live egory is exactly what the title implies: A in this community are giving back and list of ideas that may or may not reach the underway LYNN — The murals that come out then the union is showing their commit- of the Beyond Walls Festival don’t just drawing board. ment to the community,” said Desmond. Never mind the fact that decades worth for Lynn’s show up. There’s a team behind prepping When Al Wilson, the executive director the walls before their colorful revitaliza- of research and arguments have made the and founder of Beyond Walls, reached case for why extending rapid transit to second tion. out to former Director of Organizing Lynn makes sense. Never mind that eco- Painters & Allied Trades District Coun- mural John Doherty last year, the union knew nomic growth and transit development cil #35 have prepped, power washed, and it was something they should be a part of. are tied together in Focus2040: Lynn gets festival primed each of the walls in preparation Doherty and the rest of the union mem- a passing mention in a report that pur- of their murals since the festival’s 2017 bers saw the value in helping revitalize a ports to lay out a shiny new vision for the debut. community like Lynn. The priming of the MBTA. They also train each of the artists on walls and the lift training of the artists What is especially galling about Focus40 aerial and scissor lift training and get are all in-kind donations provided by the is that its introduction portrays the re- them certi ed, which is usually very union. port as an “investment plan” for transit expensive, according to Justin Des- mond, the union’s current director of PART II, A7 LYNN, A7 INSIDE Opinion Charles: Ah, there’s the rub. A4 Peabody Bishop Fenwick to partner with Danvers school. A7 LOOK! Town marks vintage state signs. A8 Sports Another successful Parks & Rec basketball season turns to title games. B1 Moulton listens Revere protects its as Lynners speak smallest residents By Gayla Cawley U.S. Rep. Seth By Bridget Turcotte A piping plover ITEM STAFF Moulton an- ITEM STAFF walks through swers ques- a fenced-off LYNN — U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) tions at North REVERE — Tucked away in the seagrass on nesting area on spoke about his efforts to fundamentally Shore Commu- Revere Beach, a tiny talloned foot reaches out Revere Beach. change Congress, and how he feels it is im- nity College. from behind the safety of its home, guarded by portant to elect new leadership within the the security of rope and blue triangular ags. ITEM PHOTO | SPENSER HASAK Democratic party at a Town Hall meeting ITEM PHOTO | It’s barely noticeable when a ball of white OWEN O’ROURKE MOULTON, A7 REVERE, A7 OBITUARIES ..............................A2 LOOK! .......................................A8 DIVERSIONS .............................B5 HIGH 92° VOL. 140, ISSUE 199 OPINION ...................................A4 SPORTS ................................ B1-3 CLASSIFIED ........................... B6-7 LOW 75° POLICE/FIRE .............................A6 COMICS ....................................B4 PAGE A8 ONE DOLLAR A2 THE DAILY ITEM THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 2018 OBITUARIES Richard Perruzzi, 82 Court: Board needs proof in 1936-2018 GLOUCESTER — unions at the com- sex offender reclassi cation Richard Perruzzi, 82, pound in Gloucester. husband of Deborah He ew twice in his BOSTON (AP) — The and convincing evidence” should deserved to be re- “burden of production,” on (Nute) Perruzzi of life and claimed “I Massachusetts Sex Of- when initially determin- classi ed. the sex offender to provide Gloucester, passed won’t be doing that fender Registry Board has ing which of three classi - The court found other- evidence of a change in away suddenly on again” but enjoyed the burden of proof when cation levels a sex offend- wise. circumstances that would Sunday, July 29, traveling by train or determining whether a er should receive, based “We conclude that the warrant reclassi cation. 2018 at the Bever- car to Atlantic City sex offender should not upon their risk of commit- risk of erroneous classi- The ruling came in the ly Hospital with his and Disney World. He be moved to a less dan- ting new offenses. Those cation and deprivation case of an unnamed man family by his side. enjoyed a ne glass gerous classi cation, the placed in the more serious remains in reclassi cation who was convicted on ve He was born in Woburn of wine and good cigar, his state’s highest court ruled Level 2 or Level 3 catego- proceedings and that that separate cases of open and on March 22, 1936, son of witty sense of humor and spir- Wednesday. ries are subject to having risk must continue to be gross lewdness and las- the late Carmen and Celesta it of living life to the fullest will The Supreme Judicial their names and pictures borne by the government,” civious behavior between (Grazioso) Perruzzi. Dick was be greatly missed by his loving Court also ruled in sepa- posted on a public website wrote Associate Justice 1990 and 2004. a graduate of Lynn Vocational family and many friends. rate cases that indigent by the state. Scott Kafker. “Therefore, In 2013, the man ap- High School, excelling in their Richard is survived by his sex offenders have a right But when a sex offender the ultimate burden of pealed to have his Level machining program. wife of 62 years, Deborah to legal counsel in reclas- requested to be moved to proof should remain with 3 classi cation lowered, He started his company, Perruzzi of Gloucester; his si cation hearings, and a lower classi cation, or the board to prove by clear arguing he had not offend- PMS Manufacturing Products, daughter, Cheryl Favaloro and that those hearings must removed from the regis- and convincing evidence ed in many years and had in 1960 and continued to go her husband Sam of Glouces- be held within a “reason- try altogether, the board that the classi cation is overcome substance abuse to work every day saying he’d ter; two sons, Scott Perruzzi able” period of time. argued that it was the current and correct.” problems that he said con- just be bored retiring. and his wife Debra and Dayne The board already is re- burden of the individu- The court added, howev- tributed to his past behav- In his spare time he enjoyed Perruzzi, all of Gloucester; four quired to provide “clear al to prove why he or she er, that there was also a ior. gardening in his hydroponic grandchildren, Marae Perruzzi, greenhouse, playing computer Sam Favaloro, Tyler Favaloro games and traveling to his fa- and Andrew (Aj) Perruzzi; two vorite gambling spot, Mohegan great-grandchildren, Chase Baker reviewing slew of bills Sun, with his wife and daughter Lakeman and Arielle Rich- to play a good game of poker. ardson; three step-grand- He was a man of many tal- daughters, Brianna and Nicole ents, that being said, he was a Gerrior and Katelyn Lee; his approved by state lawmakers class A fencer and participated brother, Ken Perruzzi and his in various tournaments as a wife Shirley of South Carolina, young man.