GREAT BARRINGTON — Whoever dumped trash at the building made famous in Arlo Guthrie’s 1967 Thanksgiving protest anthem “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” has a sense of humor.
The director of what’s now the Guthrie Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, discovered on Tuesday that someone had filled the dumpster with garbage and left a grubby sofa nearby.
They also left a sign that said: “Officer Obie told me to do it.”
The sign was a reference to former Stockbridge Police Chief William Obanhein, the Officer Obie of the song who arrested Guthrie for illegally dumping trash.
Guthrie, who was traveling Tuesday, said in a note to The Berkshire Eagle through a family member, “I hope they left an envelope with some money in it.”
According to the song, an envelope with a name on it led to Guthrie’s arrest.
CAMBRIDGE — A man authorities say pushed a 15-year-old girl to the ground, causing her death, has been charged with manslaughter.
Isaias Plaza, of Boston, was held without bail at his arraignment Tuesday in connection with the death last July of 15-year-old Richelle Robinson, of Cambridge. A hearing to determine whether Plaza is dangerous is scheduled for Aug. 13.
Prosecutors say the 19-year-old Plaza knew Robinson and her friends, but had a falling out.
They say he pushed her down on a Cambridge street on July 22, 2018. Police found the high school student on the ground, bleeding and unresponsive. She died at the hospital the next day.
Prosecutors say Plaza burned the clothes he was wearing at the time.
From Associated Press